Jamaica Gleaner Sport
Published: Monday Tuesday | August 11, 2009
Francis hits back - MVP coach calls JAAA's camp location inferior... says athletics governing body out to sabotage his athletes
World-renowned track and field coach Stephen Francis is convinced the Jamaica Amateur Athletic Association (JAAA) is out to sabotage him and the success of his athletes.
Yesterday, reports surfaced that five MVP athletes, former world 100m record holder Asafa Powell... Read More...
Sunshine Girls go gunning for US today
Jamaica Under-21 netballers will face the United States in their opening game of the World Youth Netball Championships, in the Cook Islands today starting at 5:00 p.m. In the day's other games, defending champions New Zealand take on Barbados... Read More...
Blanket finish expected in 100 hurdles
At any track and field championships there are certain events where it is going to be very difficult to predict the winners. When action starts at the World Championships in Berlin this weekend, there are three events among the women which are likely to go down to the wire... Read More...
Athlete PROFILE
Best performances: Gold medal winner, 400m hurdles, and bronze in 1600m relay at the IAAF World Junior Championships in Beijing, China, 2006... Read More...
Natalie Brown-Johnson - fighting her way to the top
"I got into boxing through training for kick-boxing," junior welter-weight boxer Natalie 'Too Bad' Brown-Johnson, told The Gleaner. "My interest in combat arts developed due to a stalking incident in college. The experience made me feel sort of helpless... Read More...
Jamaica's rich World Champs history
Jamaica has a very rich history at the IAAF World Championships in Athletics.The island has attended and won medals at every championships since the first was held in Helsinki, Finland in 1983. The country's first gold medal was collected by Bertland Cameron... Read More...
Three more gold for Bolt
ALTHOUGH playing second fiddle to the women at major championships in recent years, Jamaica's men have always made their presence felt at the world level. With the amazing Usain Bolt in the spotlight, a lot of eyes will be focused on Jamaica's men in Berlin... Read More...
Women will hit them for 6
Two years ago in Osaka, Japan, Jamaica's women captured six of 10 medals garnered by the team while at the Beijing Olympic Games last year. of the 11 medals reaped by Jamaica, the females accounted for eight. The aim of this article is to predict the likely medallists... Read More...
