Usain Bolt’s sizzling 9.58 sec world record 100 meters run on Sunday gave Jamaicans one more reason to celebrate, despite the tough economic times facing the island. Bolt, sparkled at the IAAF World Athletics Championships clipping .11 of a second from his earth shattering 9.69 seconds run at the Beijing Olympics exactly a year earlier. [...]
The People’s Empowerment Party (PEP) in Barbados is calling for urgent action to save crisis riven West Indies cricket. The call come from PEP’s president, David Comissiong.
Jamaica’s Usain Bolt, triple sprint gold medalist at the Beijing Olympics and rated the fastest man on earth has won the World Sportsman of the Year award from the Laureus World Sports Academy. Bolt received his prize from Academy member Michael Johnson in a ceremony Wednesday in Toronto. “I am delighted to win this prestigious [...]
Jamaica’s Minister of Youth, Sports and Culture Olivia “Babsy” Grange has presented J$26-million (approx US$290,000) to the Jamaica Amateur Athletics Association (JAAA) in support of this year’s Jamaica International Track and Field Invitational Meet to be staged by the JAAA on Saturday, May 2. At the presentation ceremony, held at the Sports Development Foundation headquarters [...]
West Indies cricket is moving up. The team moved from eighth to seventh in test cricket in the world in January 2009. And cricket caught my eye at Christmas, a really hard thing to do at the time of sorrel and black cake. There was the team on TV playing in New Zealand. Also, as [...]
Kensington Oval, on the western outskirts of Bridgetown, Barbados began life in 1882 as the home of the snooty Pickwick Club. It has witnessed many historic matches including being the first West Indian ground to host an England touring team, in 1895. Kensington hosted the first combined West Indies side (against MCC in 1910-11) and [...]
At the start of November when the attention of most of the world was focussed on the US presidential campaign and the history making prospects of Barack Obama, another Afro-Saxon, this one of Caribbean ancestry, was speediong towards his own place in the chronicles of 21st Century achievement. And the Grenadian Briton, Lewis Carl Hamilton [...]
Jacques Rogge hands over the Olympic flag to the mayor of London, Boris Johnson, in Beijing. The 2008 games ended with a bang Sunday and now it’s on to London 2012 for the next summer Olympics. Beijing was a landmark year for Caribbean athletes, with Jamaicans dominating the sprints taking 11 medals, six gold, three [...]
Beijing 2008 Medal Table Rank Country G S B Total 1 China 51 21 28 100 2 United States 36 38 36 110 3 Russia 23 21 28 72 4 Great Britain 19 13 15 47 5 Germany 16 10 15 41 6 Australia 14 15 17 46 7 South Korea 13 10 8 31 [...]
Olympics boss Jacques Rogge has told Usain Bolt to show more respect for opponents after the Jamaican claimed the first sprint double for 24 years. Bolt showboated at the start and finish of his world-record breaking 200m race and slowed up yards from the line in the 100m final so he could celebrate. “That’s not [...]