Five-star performance - Jamaicans rule sprints, hurdles at Monaco Grand Prix
MONACO (CMC): Jamaican sprinter Asafa Powell sent another stern warning ahead of next month's Beijing Olympics with a comfortable win, while compatriots Kerron Stewart, Brigitte Foster-Hylton, Danny McFarlane and Melaine Walker joined him in the winners' row ...
Grange urges athletes to stay 'drug free'
Minister of Information, Culture, Youth and Sports, Olivia Grange, has urged Jamaica's athletes now preparing to compete in the August 8-24 Beijing Olympic Games to make a commitment to being drugs free. The minister, who spoke at the Institute of Sports yesterday...
Less overseas-based Reggae Boyz for Canada game
A former star of two youth World Championships and a couple players from the current Under-20 team will be in Jamaica's national senior football squad to prepare for the next round of World Cup qualifiers. However, technical director René Simoes has no intention...
'We've to move on' - Fennell charges Jamaicans to focus on positives
Mike Fennell, president of the Jamaica Olympic Association (JOA), yesterday urged Jamaicans not to let the recent drug controversy overshadow the excellent work put in by the rest of the nation's Olympic squad. "It is a disgraceful thing, but I am sure that you will agree...
Big names still flying the flag high
IT is rather ironic, as it is unfortunate, that on the heels of this brouhaha concerning Jamaica's dope testing procedures for its track and field athletes, the 'A' sample from one of the country's runners turns up positive. The criticisms came by way of articles carried...
Guyana, Barbados win
PINELANDS, Barbados (CMC): Guyana, 302 for nine, recorded a 76-run win over Leeward Islands in the limited-overs competition of the TCL Group West Indies Under-19 Challenge yesterday. The Leewards, who slumped following an explosive start, were dismissed for 226 ...
'We did ourselves proud'
Gibbs Williams, coach of Jamaica's Under-17 cricket team, says despite their failure to win this year's Digicel Sir Gary Sobers International School's Tournament, the performance was satisfying. Trinidad and Tobago won the title for the second consecutive year...
Whyte wins in Ireland
DUBLIN, Ireland (CMC): Jamaica's national 400-metre champion, Rosemarie Whyte, captured the women's 400 metres at the inaugural Morton Memorial track and field meeting this past weekend. Running in front of a sell-out stadium consisting of some 3,000 supporters...
Skeet Club targets membership
Amid the celebrations on Monday night at the Jamaica Skeet Club awards banquet, at Jade Garden Restaurant, president Errol Ziadie lamented the club's declining membership. At the club's annual All Jamaica Shotgun Championships, which ended on the weekend, only 45 members took part...
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