Published:Saturday | May 21, 2016 | 12:00 AMAndre Lowe
One is the greatest athlete in history, another is a young champion, who is looking to find his way again, the other inspired them both - a timeless giant, perhaps, the nation's favourite son.Sprint's triumvirate will come together for only the...
Published:Friday | May 20, 2016 | 12:00 AMAndre Lowe
Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt was certainly not satisfied after his 9.98-second win in the 100m at yesterday's Golden Spike meet in Ostrava, admitting that he has a lot of work to do to get up to speed.Bolt walked out of the starting blocks before...
Published:Thursday | May 19, 2016 | 12:00 AMAndre Lowe
The last time Usain Bolt ran a sub-10 seconds time before June was back in 2012 - an Olympic year.Bolt, who will compete in the 100m at today's Golden Spike meeting in Ostrava, will be looking to get into gear with the Olympics now firmly in his...
Published:Monday | May 16, 2016 | 12:00 AMAndre Lowe
SHANGHAI, China:Faster than ever at the near-ancient age of 34, American sprinter Justin Gatlin is drawing inspiration from Kim Collins - the poster boy for golden agers as far as sprinters are concerned - as he responded to questions about whether...
Published:Friday | May 13, 2016 | 12:00 AMAndre Lowe
SHANGHAI, China:Eight months after undergoing a kidney transplant, world 110 metres hurdles record holder and Olympic champion Aries Merritt has admitted that it has been a struggle for him this season but is counting his blessings and hoping that...
Published:Thursday | May 12, 2016 | 12:00 AMAndre Lowe
SHANGHAI, China: Despite disappointment at last year’s World Championships and the return to form of several key rivals, American speedster Justin Gatlin says he is still the man best equipped to take down Jamaican hotshot Usain Bolt at this...
Published:Saturday | April 30, 2016 | 12:00 AMAndre Lowe
From Arthur Wint, Herb McKenley, Donald Quarrie and Merlene Ottey to today's standard-bearers Usain Bolt, Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce and Veronica Campbell-Brown, Jamaica's rich Olympic history has been scripted by some of the greatest names in sport....
Published:Wednesday | April 27, 2016 | 3:23 PMAndre Lowe
Hurdling standout Kaliese Spencer says she was excited, following news that she had signed a new kit sponsorship deal with Puma and is hoping to inspire young females through this new platform."I have known Puma for many years throughout their...
Published:Tuesday | April 26, 2016 | 12:00 AMAndre Lowe
In 1966, a Gleaner article declared:"Jamaicans are naturally athletic and agile people, and we could produce divers of world class if more attention was paid to this aspect of swimming."This bold proclamation was made just after 10 year-old Betsy...
Published:Monday | April 18, 2016 | 12:00 AMAndre Lowe
Principal of St Elizabeth Technical High School (STETHS), Keith Wellington, said he has not been informed that his track and field head coach, Reynaldo Walcott, is heading to Wolmer's Boys' School and is confident it will take a massive effort to...
Published:Friday | April 15, 2016 | 7:55 PMAndre Lowe
"... I want to basically decapitate him!"Well then.Jamaican Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) fighter Randy 'Rude Boy' Brown hardly sounds like a man who will be featuring in only his second UFC bout tonight.Brown summed up his intentions when he steps into...
Published:Wednesday | April 13, 2016 | 8:22 PMAndre Lowe
President of the Caribbean Football Union (CFU) Gordon Derrick has expressed disappointment following the rejection of his candidacy for the CONCACAF presidency, this after FIFA announced he had failed an integrity check.In a media release issued...
Published:Saturday | April 9, 2016 | 5:58 PMAndre Lowe
Rocked by the recent FIFA corruption scandal, regional football authority, the Confederation of North, Central America and Caribbean Association Football (CONCACAF), will continue its push towards turning a new page with upcoming elections for a new...
Published:Friday | March 25, 2016 | 12:00 AMAndre Lowe
Jamaica's Reggae Boyz were held to a 1-1 draw by Costa Rica in their key CONCACAF semi-final round FIFA World Cup qualifier inside the National Stadium last night.Goals in either half by Jamaican midfielder Je-Vaughn Watson and Costa Rica's Johnny...
Published:Monday | March 21, 2016 | 7:54 PMAndre Lowe
As members of Calabar High School's track and field team gathered on the National Stadium's blue mondo on Saturday to celebrate a historic fifth straight hold on the Mortimer Geddes trophy, one image stood out among the revelry.Sprinter Christopher...
Published:Monday | March 21, 2016 | 5:56 PMAndre Lowe
For Andrea Hardware, long-time manager of Calabar's all-conquering track and field team, last week's successful ISSA-GraceKennedy Boys' and Girls' Athletics Championships campaign, though costly, carried a special tone, as her personal milestones...
Published:Saturday | March 19, 2016 | 12:00 AMAndre Lowe
Former 800 metres world record holder Wilson Kipketer, here in Jamaica for the ISSA-GraceKennedy Boys and Girls' Athletics Championships as a guest of his and the event's sponsor Puma, was left amazed by the experience, as he welcomes the...
Published:Saturday | March 19, 2016 | 12:00 AMAndre Lowe
At 3 p.m yesterday, Calabar High were half of a point behind Kingston College in the race for the Mortimer Geddes trophy. An hour later, the defending champions took over and strangled the life out of their rivals’ challenges in a show of...
Calabar and Edwin Allen have both convincingly retained their titles at the ISSA/GraceKennedy Boys and Girls Athletics Championships, which ended a short while ago at the National Stadium. Despite starting the day in third position, 26 time...
Published:Friday | March 18, 2016 | 7:04 PMAndre Lowe
A week before last year's ISSA/GraceKennedy Boys and Girls' Athletic Championships, Morant Bay High School's Marcus Brown started training for the decathlon.The then 17-year-old would surprise himself after finishing third at Champs despite the...
Published:Friday | March 18, 2016 | 7:52 PMAndre Lowe
After four days of fierce competition, it has come down to this. Fifty events will write the final pages of this year's ISSA-GraceKennedy Boys and Girls' Athletics Championships, with the lions from Calabar looking to make it a fifth straight hold...
They had to battle the usual strong afternoon head-wind inside the National Stadium, but the headliners are all through to tonight's 100m finals, setting up a mouth-watering climax to the penultimate day of the ISSA/GraceKennedy Boys and Girls...
Christopher Taylor did it again. The Calabar star set a new record in the Class Two boys 200m, romping to 20.80 in his semi-final win, to better Ramone McKenzie's old record of 20.89 set in 2007. This is Taylor's second record of the meet...
Published:Wednesday | March 16, 2016 | 8:07 PMAndre Lowe
Bellefield's middle-distance standout, Shevan Parks, says that he is looking to build on the success of Bellefield's most outstanding athlete, Kemoy Campbell, who he describes as one of his biggest inspirations ahead of a highly anticipated clash...
Published:Wednesday | March 16, 2016 | 8:26 PMAndre Lowe
Excelsior High School's Shanice Love has been dominant at the regional level.Now, she is celebrating her first title at the Inter-Secondary Schools Sports Associ-ation (ISSA)/GraceKennedy Boys and Girls' Athletics Championships, after a record-...