Jamaica Needs an 800m Prodigy
It has been a long, dry, lean season. It has been decades long; but there is no end in sight. Jamaica is truly blessed, but certainly not with the gift…
Bliss Smashes LSU Shot Put Record
After opening the season by smashing Louisiana State University’s (LSU) indoor school record in the shot put at the LSU Invitational on 9 January, Lady Tiger senior Tori Bliss eclipsed…
An Olympic Crossroads for Jamaica?
NEW YORK – Jamaicans have excelled in everything globally, from the academia to business to entertainment to sports. Although it is next to impossible to comfortably select a discipline in…
Zola Golden Untamed
When Zola Golden as a junior at Arlington High School in LaGrangeville, New York, lowered her 300m personal best (PB) to 37.91secs in February 2014, her feat ranked her at…
British ¼-Miler Wears Jamaica Tatoo
As lead-off quarter-milers settled in their blocks for the men’s 4x400m relay at the 2014 European Championships, the camera zoomed in on Britain’s Conrad Williams in lane 5, enlarging a…
Jamaica Can Clean-Sweep Without Bolt and Fraser-Pryce
Jamaica, like the USA, seems to have found the formula for sweeping races at major championships even without their stars Usain Bolt and Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce. The island has been able…
USA’s Kaylin Whitney Set to Dominate at WJs
The US city of Eugene, Oregon will host a deluge of athletes from all over the world for the 2014 IAAF World Juniors Championships July 22 – 27. As these…
Yohan Blake, Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce Talk 2014 Goals, Charity
NEW YORK – Jamaica’s Olympic sprint double silver medalist Yohan Blake literally breezed through New York Tuesday evening en route to Manchester, England, where he contested the annual 150m straightaway…
2014 Edwin Allen Girls Team: One of History’s Best
At the April 2014 Penn Relays in the US city Philadelphia, Edwin Allen High School from Clarendon, Jamaica demonstrated why they are one of history’s best. The blue-and-white-uniformed girls entered…
Should Bailey-Cole Run The 400m?
He has often been described as the carbon copy of his training partner, the storied Usain Bolt, but aside from long, gangly limbs, there is no comparison between the two.…