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St Lucia’s Denzel Phillips
February 18, 2026

Phillips World Juniors qualification historic

KINGSTON, Jamaica (CMC): Denzel Phillips wrote his name in St Lucia’s history books when he became the first athlete from his country to qualify for the World Athletics Under-20 Championships in the…
Wendell Downswell
February 17, 2026 by Livingston Scott

‘They knew what they wanted’

Since the qualification of the under-17 men’s national team to their third World Cup last week, head coach Wendell Downswell has faced recognition for finding success with a third junior national…
Jamaica’s Shane Pitter, front, and Junior Harris start a two-man bobsled run at the 2026 Winter Olympics, in Cortina d’Ampezzo, Italy yesterday.
February 17, 2026 by Gregory Bryce

Moore finishes 14th in women’s mono bob

At the end of yesterday’s action at the 2026 Milano Cortina Winter Olympic Games, Jamaica’s Mica Moore found herself 14th in women’s mono bob after four heats across two days of action. Moore totalled…
Reggae Girlz coach Hubert Busby takes his charges through a team talk.
February 17, 2026

Busby expects Reggae Girlz to face a tough Nicaragua

A dominant 18-0 win against Dominica in their opening game of the Concacaf W Qualifiers has not taken away from what Reggae Girlz head coach Hubert Busby Jr believes will be a sterner test when they…
Port Antonio High School’s Cavel Wesley clears the high jump bar on her way to an Eastern Athletics Championships Class 3 record, 1.60 metres, at the National Stadium yesterday.
February 17, 2026 by Raymond Graham

Wesley the toast as Titchfield, Oberlin lead Eastern Champs day one

While day one honours went to defending boys’ champions Titchfield and Oberlin High School’s girls at the Eastern Athletics Championships inside the National Stadium yesterday, the performance of the…
The Queen’s School’s Latoya Williams is expected to do well in the girls’ 800 metres at this year’s ISSA/GraceKennedy Boys and Girls’ Athletics Championships.
February 17, 2026 by Robert Bailey

‘This small core has quality’

Despite entering this year’s championships with one of their smallest squads in recent memory, head coach Carlos Samuels says he is expecting strong all-round and quality performances from The Queen’s…
Sri Lanka’s Pathum Nissanka celebrates scoring a century during the T20 World Cup cricket match against Australia in Pallekele, Sri Lanka yesterday.
February 17, 2026

Nissanka abuses Aussies, sends Sri Lanka through

PALLEKELE, Sri Lanka (AP): Pathum Nissanka’s unbeaten 100 powered Sri Lanka into the T20 World Cup Super 8s and left former champions Australia’s prospects hanging by a thread yesterday. Sri Lanka…
The United States’ Curtis Thompson celebrates the bronze medal he won at the World Athletics Championships in Tokyo, Japan last year.
February 17, 2026

World bronze medallist to conduct clinic in Jamaica

G.C. Foster College of Physical Education and Sport, in association with the Jamaica Athletics Administrative Association (JAAA), will host a javelin clinic on Thursday, led by internationally…
WALL STREET TRADER, the only challenge facing the much-improved Don Kwesi.
February 17, 2026 by Ainsley Walters

Most-improved Don Kwesi, Wall Street Trader to go shoe for shoe

DON KWESI, the most improved local-bred of last season, makes his overnight-allowance debut in the midweek Ash Wednesday Trophy after flattening foreigners, AMERICAN AVIATOR and FRED THE MASTER, in…