World Women’s 100m: Who Will Wear the Coveted Crown?
Jamaica’s Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce (35) is determined to leave Oregon with the 100m gold medal. She has the world-leading time of 10.67, and she has posted three sub-11secs three times this…
Jamaican Twin Girls Set To Go Pro
There are so many moving targets in Jamaican track and field, I can hardly focus on one thing. At the heart of these targets is the Jamaican saying: “Ef ih…
Shericka Jackson Dangerous in the 200m, But Don’t Jump the Gun
A sprinting machine named Shericka Jackson zoomed to the top of the world last Sunday evening after defeating her main Jamaican rivals in an anticipated 200m race at the Jamaica…
Jamaica Trials Will Reveal New Guards after Bolt, Powell, et al
Some years ago, Asafa Powell was Jamaica’s flag bearer in the flat 100m; that was after Raymond Stewart was the top male sprinter the country had. Fans lamented that Powell…
Toast of CARIFTA Games 2022
Sixteen-year-old Adaejah Hodge of the British Virgin Islands (BVI) was the toast of the 49th CARIFTA Games held over three days in Kingston, Jamaica, April 16-18. She won the Austin…
Champs 2020: KC Dethrones JC, Edwin Allen Retains Girls Title
The 111-year-old ISSA Boys and Girls Athletics Championships, widely known as Champs, ended last Saturday evening (April 9) in its usual blaze of glory. Defending girls champions Edwin Allen retained…
The Ryan Crouser’s Shot Put World Record That Wasn’t
The January 29 Millrose Games in New York was in full run with warmth all around as a snowstorm blanketed the arena. Inside, athletes were running, jumping, and throwing indoor,…
No More USA vs. The World on Penn Saturdays
The 126th running of the Penn Relays will be held at the University of Pennsylvania’s Franklin Field, April 28 to 30, and the Philadelphia, USA-based carnival will be different from…
Sprint Relay World Record for Jamaican High School Girls
A Jamaican high school girls sprint team ran a high school 4x100m relay world record today at the scaled-down 45th staging of the Gibson-McCook Relays in the Kingston. The crack…
For Thompson-Herah and Warholm, 2021 A season Like No Other
What a year it was for a flat sprinter and a hurdler, worlds apart! After a four-year roller coaster ride burdened with an Achilles tendon injury, frustration, doubt and tears,…