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Quarter-mile stars LaShawn Merritt and Kirani James battled their way to the finish line; Frenchman Pascal Martinot-Lagarde upstaged two sprint hurdles favorites and sprint queen Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce ran a disappointing…
NASSAU, Bahamas – The two-day inaugural World Relays ended here today with the presentation of the Golden Baton to the USA for the best overall team competing in the ten…
NASSAU, Bahamas – Jamaica came here to the first World Relays to make a statement, even without their megastar Usain Bolt who is yet to open his season. And that…
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…
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…
The absence of a number of elite stars from the 2014 Penn Relays in Philadelphia April 24 to 26 did not detract from the usual excitement the event brings. And…
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.…
US sprinter Tyson Gay was given a one-year suspension for testing positive for a banned anabolic steroid in 2013, the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) announced Friday. According to a USADA…
In addition to the previously announced Jenn Suhr, Sally Pearson and Yohan Blake, three of the world’s most dominant athletes in the sport are the latest to have join the…
One dictionary defines the phenomenon as “a person with phenomenal ability or promise” and phenomenal as “unusual in a way that is very impressive.” Using those words to describe Courtney…