There is concern for the health of all who journey to Rio de Janeiro for the XXXI Olympic Games due to the Zika virus.However, the mosquito-borne virus has already damaged Olympic bids by six home-based Jamaican athletes. Those known to be affected...
Published:Saturday | July 30, 2016 | 12:00 AMHubert Lawrence
Does the date July 31, 1996 sound familiar to you? It should. Unless you were in Atlanta, you were in your living room screaming for joy at your big back television as Deon Hemmings made history. Despite the sterling efforts of greats like Merlene...
Published:Thursday | July 28, 2016 | 12:00 AMHubert Lawrence
Pint-sized 100 metres hurdler Megan Simmonds could surprise the world at next month's Olympic Games. That's the hope of Leacroft Bolt, the man who coached her in high school. He reckons that if Simmonds and her current coach Stephen Francis...
Camperdown High School coach, Leacroft Bolt, was pleasantly surprised by the silver -medal performance by Rushelle Burton in the 100-metre hurdles at the recent IAAF World Under-20 Championships.Though he knew she was in sub-13 shape, Bolt confessed...
Sprinter Sashalee Forbes has dreamt of being an Olympian since her days in primary school. Now, the G.C. Foster College student-athlete is in Rio de Janeiro, preparing for her first Olympic Games.Forbes is part of Jamaica's 4x100m relay pool and...
Published:Saturday | July 23, 2016 | 12:00 AMHubert Lawrence
Jamaica's Usain Bolt did more than prove his fitness for the upcoming Olympic Games with his fine 200 metres run in the London Diamond League meet last Friday. His victory, timed in 19.89 seconds, established him as a gold medal contender for...
Maurice Wilson, Jamaica's technical leader for athletics at the upcoming Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, says that this year's squad could be as good as the group that won four gold, four silver, and four bronze medals in London four years ago....
Lashawn Merritt, the USA 400 metre Olympic Trials winner, will be one of Usain Bolt's rivals in the 200 metres at the Rio Olympic Games and he seems to be looking forward to the challenge. Merritt placed second to Justin Gatlin in the 200 metres...
With an Olympic team spot secured at the recent National Senior Championships, discus thrower Federick Dacres is focused on August 12. That's when the best throwers in the world will gather in Rio de Janeiro to earn the right to fight for the gold...
Winthrop Graham, Jamaica's finest 400-metre hurdler, has praised 2016 National champion Annsert Whyte for his race strategy. He also has words of advice for Jaheel Hyde.Speaking at the recent National Senior Championships, Graham said he wasn't...
Andrew Riley's season has been blighted by illness and injury, but the 2014 Commonwealth Games champion isn't daunted as he looks to open the gateway to Rio de Janeiro and the 2016 Olympic Games at the JAAA/Supreme Ventures National Senior...
Maurice Wilson, coach and lecturer at the G.C. Foster College for Physical Education, will be Jamaica’s track and field technical leader at this summer’s Olympic Games. Wilson has served in the head track and field coaching position at...
Christine Day is looking forward to this week's National Senior Championships with confidence.Day, the 29-year-old reigning 400-metre champion, says her preparation has gone very well. She has been particularly encouraged by her early-season form."I...
Allodin Fothergill, an Olympian in 2008, intends to push his competition to the limit in the 400 metres at this week's National Senior Championships.With the exception of reigning champion Javon Francis, Fothergill views the event as wide open....
TRACK AND FIELD NEWS, the respected US publication, is projecting that Jamaica will win 11 medals in athletics at this summer's Olympic Games.In predictions posted to its website on June 23, the magazine ascribed gold medals to Usain Bolt, Shelly-...
Maurice Wilson says that Stephen Francis, coach at the MVP Track Club, is doing a great job with 400 metres hurdler Janieve Russell.Wilson, who coached Russell when she attended Holmwood Technical High, believes she can become one of the world's...
Published:Wednesday | June 22, 2016 | 1:33 PMHubert Lawrence
Christian Lilleroos is here to help Jamaica's table tennis. To do so, the US-based Swede is trying to tap into the example of excellence provided by the country's tradition in track and field athletics.Lilleroos is here coaching coaches and helping...
Published:Wednesday | June 22, 2016 | 12:00 AMHubert Lawrence
By the time 20-year-old Merlene Ottey settled into her blocks for the Olympic 200-metre final in 1980, Jamaica had already won 14 Olympic medals in athletics.Glorious gold medals had come via Arthur Wint, George Rhoden, the world record breaking...
Rick Webb, the former St Jago High School volleyball star, is playing the game professionally in Qatar.Here at home during the summer break of the Qatar volleyball season, Webb said he is learning a lot from the experience.Speaking at a recent...
When Machel Cedenio crossed the line first in the 400 metres at last Saturday's Racers Grand Prix, the scoreboard clock revealed that he had set a National Stadium record 44.38 seconds.In addition, the tall Trinidad and Tobago star took three others...
The Jamaica team will be in Rio de Janeiro for the XXXI Olympic Games from July 24, but won't be at great risk of contracting the Zika virus.That's the medical opinion of Dr Warren Blake, president of the Jamaica Athletic Administrative Association...
Maurice Wilson, Jamaica's head track and field coach to the 2012 Olympic Games and the World Championships in 2011 and 2015, is optimistic about the nation's prospects for this...
Jamaica has twice won the 4x100-metre relay for boys at the World Junior Championships. According to veteran coach, Raymond Graham, a third win is possible this year.Graham, hurdles and relays coach at Kingston College (KC), said Jamaica's likely...
The best moments of the second Jamaica Athletics Administrative Association (JAAA) All-Comers meet on Saturday evening came near the end as Christania Williams and Akeem Bloomfield delighted fans inside the National Stadium with fine sprint...
Cydonie Mothersill, the retired Cayman Islands sprinter, says Usain Bolt will win at this summer's Olympic Games.Mothersill, the meet director of last weekend's Cayman Invitational, described the tall Jamaican as a champion who always shows up. In...
