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…
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,…
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,…
2021 Track & Field Season Was Probably the Best Ever
The recently concluded 2021 track season was one of the best I ever witnessed. It was probably the best if one were to consider the challenges faced the last two…
Is STETHS the New Sprinters’ Paradise?
St. Elizabeth Technical High School’s (STETHS) made history at this year’s annual Jamaica Inter-Secondary School Sports Association (ISSA) Boys and Girls Championships, known as Champs. On 15 May, their boys…