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Mills: Bolt has catching up to do

Published:Tuesday | June 27, 2017 | 12:00 AMAndre Lowe

Coach Glen Mills admitted that star sprinter Usain Bolt has some catching up to do in terms of his preparation for the IAAF World Championships, but believes he has more than enough time to get the retiring sprinter into high gear ahead of the...

World champ on target for great things

Published:Tuesday | June 27, 2017 | 12:00 AMHubert Lawrence

Lennox Graham, coach of reigning World 100-metre hurdles champion Danielle Williams, says his charge is on target to do great things. He believes that her win at last weekend's National Senior Championships will serve as a confidence booster. Graham...

Triple jumper Williams hoping to be fully fit for London

Published:Tuesday | June 27, 2017 | 12:00 AMRobert Bailey

National triple jump champion Kimberly Williams is hoping to be fully fit in time for this year's IAAF World Championships in London.The 28-year-old Williams has been struggling with a bruised heel injury this season, and this has forced her to miss...

Go with Nunes' Very Classic

Published:Tuesday | June 27, 2017 | 4:34 PMAinsley Walters

ANTHONY NUNES' grey VERY CLASSIC appears back to form after posting a cracking five-furlong victory over FORT KNOX, clocking that 59.2 on May 20, a performance which should see her repeating at a half-furlong longer in this afternoon's seventh race....

Drakes: Senior players critical to WI turnaround

Published:Tuesday | June 27, 2017 | 4:56 PM

TAUNTON, England (CMC):Head coach Vasbert Drakes is optimistic West Indies Women can turn around their slump but believes the senior players must play a key role in the resurgence.The Caribbean side lost their opening game of the ongoing Women's...

Samuda is the new JOA president

Published:Tuesday | June 27, 2017 | 7:05 PMLivingston Scott

Attorney Christopher Samuda was on Tuesday voted in as the new president of the Jamaica Olympic Association (JOA). Samuda, who served as Secretary General under the immediate past president Mike Fennell, who did not seek re-election after 40 years...

Fennell promises smooth transition

Published:Monday | June 26, 2017 | 12:00 AMLivingston Scott

Outgoing Jamaica Olympic Association (JOA) president Mike Fennell promises a smooth transition of power for the incoming leadership and gives both presidential candidates, Vishu Tolan and Christopher Samuda, the vote of confidence to build on the...

Williams motivated despite technical issues

Published:Monday | June 26, 2017 | 12:00 AMRaymond Graham

ANY athlete would have been happy about posting a personal best in their respective events, but this was not the case for National Senior 100m hurdles champion Danielle Williams, who clocked a career best of 12.56 seconds to regain her title she won...

Foster's Fairplay | More discretion needed from starters

Published:Monday | June 26, 2017 | 12:00 AM

Track and field continues to battle to arrive at a method to punish an athlete seeking an unfair advantage over a fellow competitor at the start of a race. The search for equal opportunity has yielded a contentious rule which declares, "one false...

Follow The Trace | Bravo, West Indies Cricket!

Published:Monday | June 26, 2017 | 12:00 AM

A poignant reminder of the continued erosion of West Indies cricket is playing out in the still-unfolding saga involving embattled batsman Darren Bravo and the board president Dave Cameron.Essentially, Bravo's feisty and obviously inappropriate...

The Wright View | Magnificence in a time of misery

Published:Monday | June 26, 2017 | 12:00 AM

The mauling received by the Brown/Cameron amalgamation of West Indian cricketers by the Indians in the second one-day international and the Reggae Boyz' loss to minnows CuraÁao in the Scotiabank CFU Caribbean Cup on Sunday pales in significance to...

We'll be ready for Gold Cup - Waite

Published:Monday | June 26, 2017 | 12:00 AMRachid Parchment

National senior men's football team assistant coach Jerome Waite has backed the Reggae Boyz to bounce back from their defeat in the Scotiabank CFU Caribbean Cup final to CuraÁao, with a better performance in next month's CONCACAF Gold Cup.Jamaica...

Windies Women lose WC opener to Aussies

Published:Monday | June 26, 2017 | 12:00 AM

TAUNTON, England (CMC):Out-of-sorts West Indies Women proved no match for World champions Australia Women and crashed to a heavy eight-wicket defeat as they opened their ICC Women's Cricket World Cup on a disappointing note here yesterday.They opted...

Interim JFF - president soon - Training centre renamed in honour of Captain Horace Burrell

Published:Monday | June 26, 2017 | 12:00 AMMarc Stamp

The Jamaica Football Federation's (JFF) board of directors is expected to make a decision on whether an interim president will be named, at a meeting on July 1 at the body's headquarters in New Kingston."The process is straightforward according to...

Pacman ready for Horn showdown

Published:Sunday | June 25, 2017 | 12:00 AM

BRISBANE, Australia (AP): Manny Pacquiao attended a church service in Brisbane yesterday, just hours after arriving in Australia for his July 2 world title fight defence against Australian Jeff Horn.The reigning WBO welterweight titleholder left his...

Driven ... Third-generation Sirgany dreams of Formula 1

Published:Thursday | June 22, 2017 | 12:00 AMRachid Parchment

Justin Sirgany is a 15 year old go kart and Formula 4 (F4) driver, who hopes to make it further up the divisions and drive for a Formula 1 (F1) team someday.Speed has been a concept familiar to Justin from an early age as he is a third-generation...

Confed Cup: Germans beat Cameroon 3-1 amid red card controversy

Published:Sunday | June 25, 2017 | 12:00 AM

OCHI, Russia (AP):World champion Germany reached the Confederations Cup semi-finals yesterday with a 3-1 victory over a Cameroon side reduced to ten men after further confusion with experimental video replays.Germany was leading through Kerem...

Azerbaijan GP: Hamilton labels Vettel a 'disgrace'

Published:Sunday | June 25, 2017 | 2:42 PM

BAKU, Azerbaijan (AP):As Daniel Ricciardo celebrated winning a hectic Azerbaijan Grand Prix yesterday, title rivals Lewis Hamilton and Sebastian Vettel clashed in a bitter incident that could shape the rest of an intriguing Formula One season....

Federer wins ninth Gerry Weber Open

Published:Sunday | June 25, 2017 | 2:58 PM

HALLE, Germany (AP):Roger Federer defeated Germany's Alexander Zverev 6-1, 6-3 to win the Gerry Weber Open for a record ninth time on Sunday.Playing in his 140th career final, Federer saved the only break point he faced and converted four of his...

The aim was 12.85 seconds - McLeod

Published:Sunday | June 25, 2017 | 4:47 PMRaymond Graham

For the small crowd at the National Stadium on Saturday watching the third day of the JAAA National Senior Championships, it was a special moment for them, as in the final event of the night, they witnessed the fastest-ever Men's 110m hurdles race...

A mother's NBA dream

Published:Sunday | June 25, 2017 | 4:28 PM

Pamella Bennett is the mother of seven-footer Shevon Thompson, the former Vere Technical basketball standout turned pro. Though Shevon played in Junior College at Harcum College, Division 1 at George Mason, and for Eerie Bayhawks in the NBA D League...

Riley feels vindicated after Bailey win

Published:Sunday | June 25, 2017 | 12:00 AMDania Bogle

David Riley, coach of Ramone Bailey, believes the athlete's 8.16m winning distance in the men's long jump at the Jamaica Athletics Administrative Association National Senior Championships on Saturday night is further evidence of the country's...

Collins hails Jamaican boxing quartet

Published:Sunday | June 25, 2017 | 5:29 PMLeroy Brown

Jamaica's boxing team manager Godfrey Collins has said that the four boxers who travelled to the Americas Qualifying tournament in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, for September's World Boxing Championship, have still done well despite not qualifying."Our...

Anything possible with hard work - Whyte

Published:Sunday | June 25, 2017 | 12:00 AM

Ronda Whyte, the Mauricio Wilson-coached athlete defied the odds, creating a major upset to win the finals of the Women's 400m hurdles and be crowned new National champion.She came into the final as a ranked outsider, as the event included three...

Hope not enough as India beat Windies

Published:Sunday | June 25, 2017 | 12:00 AM

PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad (CMC):Starlet Shai Hope struck a high-class half-century, but it failed to save West Indies from a 105-run defeat to India in the rain-hit second One-Day International of the five-match series yesterday.Chasing a difficult...

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