Long ago, I dreamt of a time when Jamaicans would win the women’s and men’s 100 metres at the Olympics. Thankfully, that dream came true in 2008 when the incomparable Usain Bolt and Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce sped to victory in Beijing’s magnificent...
When Rasheed Broadbell beat two-time world 100 metres hurdles champion Grant Holloway in Lausanne, Switzerland, last week, he did more than just set a personal best with his winning time of 12.99 seconds. He joined Olympic gold medallists Omar...
Even before a leg discomfort forced her out of the 100 metres at last week’s Lausanne Diamond League meet, five-time World champion Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce was looking into the future. In the short term, the little speed merchant is eagerly waiting...
JAMAICA’S TROUBLE-free run at last week’s NACAC Open Championships had one blot. On the last of three glorious days in Freeport, Bahamas, an untimely injury threatened to topple the team’s medal hopes in the men’s 4x400-metre relay. Lead-off runner...
When Andrew Hudson crossed the line the victor over 200 metres at last weekend’s North American Central American and Caribbean (NACAC) Championships in the Bahamas, his time of 19.87 seconds provided evidence that he would have been a factor at the...
WHEN THE women’s 400-metre hurdles is called to order at tomorrow’s Lausanne Diamond League meet, one big name will be missing. It’s American Sydney McLaughlin, winner of the gold medal at the World Championships in the world-record time of 50.68...
FOR 400-metre hurdler Shiann Salmon, the 2022 season is like a glass half-full. On one hand, Salmon was overjoyed to finish with a win at last week’s NACAC Open Championships in Freeport, Bahamas. On the other hand, she believes she needs more...
With six gold, nine silver and nine bronze, Jamaica won its largest haul of medals at last weekend’s North American Central American and Caribbean (NACAC) Open Championships in Freeport, Bahamas. Team leader Dennis May said his 37-member team of...
Traves Smikle is grateful for the consistency that has governed his 2022 discus season. However, he knows he must improve if he is to fulfil his ambition to win a medal at next year’s World Athletics Championships in Budapest, Hungary or the 2024...
Until 1983, top track and field athletes almost always went to the Commonwealth Games and Pan-American Games. Short of the Olympic Games, those multisport competitions were as major as can be and the Olympics crowned de facto world champions. Then...
British sprinters with ties to Jamaica went one-two in the 200 metres at the European Championships in Munich, Germany, yesterday. For the winner, Zharnel Hughes, the victory probably made 2022 a successful season. Hughes, who trains in Jamaica as...
KAREN ANDERSON, president of the Jamaica Squash Association, has loved the game all her life and she’s confident that newcomers will fall in love with it when they attend the Senior Caribbean Championships, which begins on August 21 at the Liguanea...
FOR ATHLETES who aspire to success in athletics, the NACAC Senior Championships is an important step. That’s the advice from Dennis May, team leader of the 37-member Jamaica team to this week’s staging of the meet in Freeport, Bahamas. “NACAC, for...
THERE’S A patriotic flavour to the refusal to accept the notion of Noah Lyles targeting Usain Bolt’s 200-metre world record. However, the data suggests that Lyles has earned the right to think Bolt’s monumental 2009 time of 19.19 seconds is within...
Jaydon Hibbert took just one attempt to win the triple jump with a meet record last week at the World Athletics Under-20 Championships in Cali, Colombia. After his monumental first-round jump, a personal best 17.27 metres to annex the title, he...
The historic World Under-20 shot put silver won last week in Cali, Colombia, by Kobe Lawrence will inspire others. That’s the word from Michael Vassell, the godfather of the local throws movement. Vassell believes with field events on the rise,...
BY THE time Nigeria’s Tobi Amusan settled into the blocks for her 2022 World Championships 100-metre hurdles semi-final in Eugene, Oregon, seven women had combined to produce 15 times under 12.30 seconds. Amusan tore up the history books with a...
NO LESS than 1998 Commonwealth 100-metre hurdles champion Gillian Russell-Love thinks that new World Under-20 champion Kerrica Hill could develop into a terrific senior hurdler. According to Russell-Love, the slim 17-year-old might eventually break...
A COMBATIVE performance by 18-year-old shot putter Kobe Lawrence made World Athletics Under-20 Championship history for Jamaica in Cali, Colombia on Monday. However, Lawrence said the drive to the nation’s first-ever World Under-20 shot put medal...
Trinidadian track and field analyst Ato Boldon is delighted that Tobi Amusan of Nigeria turned his world record prediction halfway on its head last Sunday in Eugene, Oregon at the World Athletics Championships. Amusan blasted the 100-metre hurdles...
Relay hero Davian Clarke has showered praise on Jamaica’s silver medal men’s 4x400 metres team from last week’s World Athletics Championships in Eugene, Oregon. Clarke, an expert coach himself, says Jamaica got the team selection right. With 2019...
When Norway’s 400 metres hurdles star Karsten Warholm crossed the line last year in Tokyo, my TV screen said the time was ‘45.94’. I couldn’t believe it. For most of my life, Ed Moses was the gold standard in the 400m hurdles with his 120-race win...
THOSE WHO believe in signs will surely expect success from Jamaica’s team to the 2022 World Under-20 Championships. The event takes place in an old stomping ground for Jamaican track stars, Estadio Olimpico Pascual Guerrero in Cali, Colombia, where...
American Kendra Harrison might be thinking that the 2022 World Athletics Championships might finally be her turn to win the athletics version of spin-the-bottle, the 100-metre hurdles. Her coach, University of Texas maestro Edrick Floreal,...
Relays have provided some of the most iconic moments in Jamaica’s track and field history - a stunning world record triumph by the legendary Helsinki quartet in the 1952 Olympic Games 4x400 metres final, Merlene Ottey’s searing anchor in the 1991...
