by Desmond G. Palmer, posted on September 01, 2009 6:59 PM
Jamaica’s Kerron Stewart yesterday ran out of contention for the US$1m jackpot in the AF Golden League series meet in Zurich, Switzerland on August 28, leaving three contenders -- 3000m/5000m runner Kenenisa Bekele (Eth), World 400m champion Sanya Richards (USA) and Pole Vaulter Yelena Isinbayeva (Rus) -- to continue the hunt. Full Story »
by Desmond G. Palmer, posted on August 23, 2009 9:37 AM
With their 38.47 secs clocking the men’s sprint relay heats of the World Championships, Trinidad & Tobago (T&T) came out for the final in a business-party mood, wearing their feelings on their shirts. As if they were there to run then soca, all four team members sported over-shirts that read: “Wine and Jam” on the front and "Trinidad & Tobago" on the back. Full Story »
by Desmond G. Palmer, posted on August 19, 2009 9:27 AM
Jamaica’s Brigitte Foster-Hylton stormed through to beat a high-quality field in the women's 100m hurdles at the World Championships today, claiming her first Worlds gold medal in the event. Her winning time of 12.51 secs (0.2 m/s wind) is her season best.
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by Desmond G. Palmer, posted on August 17, 2009 9:18 AM
Jamaica’s Shelly-Ann Fraser, the 2008 Olympic 100m champion, flew out of the block
s like a bat out of a cavern to win the women's 100m in a new national record and world leading 10.73 secs at the 12th IAAF World Championships, again beating her fast-closing teammate Kerron Stewart into second place. Full Story »
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by Desmond G. Palmer, posted on August 17, 2009 9:15 AM
Jamaica’s Usain “Lightning” Bolt produced an electrifying and phenomenal 9.58 (+0.9m/s wind) run yesterday to win the 100m at the 12th IAAF Championships in Athletics in Berlin, Germany. Many described the time as a superhuman feat but it was exactly what scientists said he would have done in Beijing a year ago if he hadn’t slowed long before reaching the line in a world record 9.69 secs. Full Story »
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by Desmond G. Palmer, posted on August 11, 2009 6:45 PM
The International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF), the body that governs world athletics, or track and field, today changed its false-start rule which lets the first offender in a race off the hook and charges the entire field with the offense. This means that the second athlete who false starts will be out.
Under the new rule, the first offender will be immediately disqualified. The change approved by a vote of 97-55 with six abstentions will be in effect next year (2010), while the World Championships that begins Saturday will use the old rule. The next Worlds after this year’s will be in 2011 in South Korean.
There has been mounting criticism about the current rule based on the assumption that some athletes use it as a ploy to rattle their opponents’ nerves to get anedge. Full Story »
by Desmond G. Palmer, posted on August 02, 2009 6:41 PM
Jamaica has lost the gold medal it was awarded in the women's 4x400m relay at the 15th Pan-American Junior Track and Field Championships in Trinidad
after the US was disqualified.
The US was reinstated as the original winner following its protest, which has pushed back Jamaica to second with the silver and the Bahamas to third with the bronze. The 3-day Games ended Sunday, Aug. 2. Full Story »
by Desmond G. Palmer, posted on August 02, 2009 6:31 PM
The Caribbean left the Hasely Crawford Stadium in Port of Spain, Trinidad yesterday with ten gold medals as well as an impressive collection of silver and bronze as the three-day 15th Pan-American Junior Championships ended. Cuba led the region’s gold medal haul with five, while Jamaica was next with four and Grenada, one. Full Story »
by Desmond G. Palmer, posted on July 24, 2009 6:25 PM
The latest anticipated clash between Jamaica’s two 100m superstars, Usain Bolt and Asafa Powell, fizzled out on the track yesterday, July 24, at the Aviva London Grand Prix meet, when Bolt destroyed the rest of field leaving Powell in 6th. Full Story »
by Desmond G. Palmer, posted on July 15, 2009 9:11 AM
The Jamaica Amateur Athletic Association (JAAA) has announced the team that will represent the island at the 12th IAAF World Championships in Athletics to be held Aug. 15-23 in Berlin, Germany. The 46-member contingent consists of 23 men and 23 women plus three alternates and an additional three reserves for the various relay pools. Full Story »
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by Desmond G. Palmer, posted on June 26, 2009 9:13 AM
The Racers Track Club sprint relay team out of Kingston, Jamaica with Antiguan Daniel Bailey and Jamaicans 19-yr-old Yohan Blake, Mario Forsythe and Usain Bolt running in that order, took on two teams from Britain and one each from the USA, Australia, Switzerland and Canada and left them looking at the bottom of their spikes to put an exciting end to the Aviva London Grand Prix at Crystal Palace yesterday. Full Story »
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by Desmond G. Palmer, posted on June 26, 2009 9:08 AM
It's that time again, when Jamaica's track & field athletes at home and abroad descend on the National Stadium in Kingston for three days, beginning today, June 26 and ending Sunday, to battle for a place on the team to the 2009 World Championships in Athletics in the historic city of Berlin, Germany less than two months away. Full Story »
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by Desmond G. Palmer, posted on June 21, 2009 8:59 AM
The staging of the first ever Caribbean Games set for July 12-19 in the twin-island republic of Trinidad and Tobago has been cancelled due to the rise of swine flu in the country. Full Story »
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by Desmond G. Palmer, posted on June 20, 2009 9:04 AM
Fourteen girls and six boys were named yesterday by the Jamaica Amateur Athletics Association (JAAA) to represent the country at the 6th IAAF World Youth Championships in Italy July 8-12. The team will be led by Vere Tech's Celia Walters, who took the girls under-18 sprint double at last weekend's national junior trials, and Old Harbour High's Kemar Bailey-Cole, winner of the Under-18 boys 100m at the event. Full Story »
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by Desmond G. Palmer, posted on June 17, 2009 8:54 AM
Usain Bolt ran a (+ 2.1) wind-aided 9.77 secs. in the 100m today at the 48th edition of the Golden Spike Grand Prix in Ostrava, the Czech Republic, a status meeting that's part of the IAAF World Athletics Tour 2009. Full Story »
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by Desmond G. Palmer, posted on June 15, 2009 8:49 AM
The Jamaica Amateur Athletics Association's (JAAA) two-day National Junior Trials ended Sunday, June 14 with a few athletes completing the double. St. Jago's Nickel Ashmeade, a World Junior silver medalist, Vere Technical's Jura Levy and Celia Walters all won the 200m yesterday after winning the 100m dash on Saturday. Full Story »
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by Desmond G. Palmer, posted on June 13, 2009 7:18 PM
Daniel Bailey, 22, of Antigua and Barbuda won the 100m at the ISTAF Golden League meet in Berlin, Germany in 10.03 secs., his third fastest of the year. In the women's equivalent, Jamaica's Olympic silver medalist Kerron Stewart, 25, the season's world leader, outclassed the field winning in 11 secs. flat. It was her third fastest of the year. Full Story »
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by Desmond G. Palmer, posted on June 13, 2009 7:06 PM
Jamaican Kimberly Williams, a Florida State sophomore and two-time All American, continued her winning ways yesterday by capturing 1st place in the triple jump final with a leap of 14.38m (47'-02.25") on the last day of the NCAA (National Collegiate Athletic Association) track & field Division 1 Outdoor Championships in Fayetteville, Arkansas. Full Story »
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by Desmond G. Palmer, posted on May 29, 2009 7:00 PM
There was no Usain Bolt this year, and while some may have gone to the Reebok Grand Prix at Icahn Stadium in New York expecting
show-time performances from senior athletes similar to what happened in Beijing, it was the junior stars and one young sprinter, who recently turned pro, that gave fans something to stand and cheer about. Full Story »
by Desmond G. Palmer, posted on April 30, 2009 6:26 PM
Ristananna and Nikita Tracey, two sisters and students at Edwin Allen High School in Jamaica, received plaques for their outstanding performance at Penns. in the 115th
annual Penn Relays carnival in Philadelphia. Full Story »
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