Jamaica
National Sports Journalist of the Year 2021 Nominee (Press Association of Jamaica). Communications Consultant with extensive experience in content writing, copywriting, editing and proofreading. Experienced writer responsible for producing numerous stories and content about sports in Jamaica and its local, regional and international impact.
Articles
PARIS, France: Olympic Games medallists Beverley McDonald, Chelsea Hammond Ross and Kaliese Spencer Carter can now begin the celebrations and fanfare they were denied years ago although for them these celebrations will be bittersweet. The trio...
Rojé Stona's Olympic début will be unforgettable, and the most historic for Jamaica in an Olympics where the field has taken centre stage. Stona claimed Jamaica's first major global men's discus title, in an Olympic record performance of 70.00m to...
PARIS, France: When Jaydon Hibbert takes the runway for his first Olympic Games final this afternoon at 1:13 p.m. Jamaica time, he knows that he will not take the moment for granted, considering that his debut was moments away from not happening...
PARIS, France: Alana Reid's path to her first Olympic Games has not just been a blessing, but a tribute to her late uncle. The young Jamaican sprinter is embracing every moment of being on the team, albeit as an alternate participant on the...
BUDAPEST, Hungary In a valiant display, Jamaica's women's 4x400 metres team powered home to bring the curtain down on the 2023 World Athletics Championships, with back-to-back silver medals to propel the island to its second-best medal count in...
BUDAPEST, Hungary At every major championship, the Jamaican team attracts attention from many international fans. For the last nine days after their training sessions at the Hungarian University of Sports Science, onlookers would watch from behind...
BUDAPEST, Hungary: SHERICKA Jackson clung on to her "baby" in commanding fashion, winning her favourite 200m race to claim back-to-back World Championship titles in the women's event at the World Championships yesterday. After earlier securing her...
BUDAPEST, Hungary: Technical leader for the Jamaica World Championships team, Maurice Wilson, said that legal action could be explored against two-time national 100 metres champion Tyquendo Tracey. In a social media post on Thursday, Tracey...
BUDAPEST, Hungary Last year, Wayne Pinnock knew he belonged on the big stage. Yesterday at the 2023 World Athletics Championships in Budapest, he proved it, leading a Jamaican podium finish in the men's long jump final and starting a medal rush on...
BUDAPEST, Hungary It's been eight years but Danielle Williams is a World Champion again. And on the same day, Antonio Watson, a champion and medal winner throughout his junior career, has ascended to similar heights with his first senior global...
BUDAPEST, HUNGARY: WHEN NAYOKA Clunis enters the National Athletics Centre today, she will break a glass ceiling for Jamaican athletics. She will be the first athlete, man or woman, to take the circle in the hammer throw event, and it will be the...
BUDAPEST, Hungary: JAMAICA FINALLY celebrated medal success on day three of the World Athletics Championships yesterday. What they also saw was the ascension of American Sha'Carri Richardson as the new women's World 100-metre champion, breaking the...
BUDAPEST, Hungary: In what will be the biggest moment of Jaydon Hibbert's life today when he competes in his first senior World Championships final, he will have the support of his mother, Tanesha Powell, in the stands. She is grateful to have an...
BUDAPEST, Hungary It has been far from a perfect season for the five-time world 100 metres champion Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce. But after her comfortable first-round qualification yesterday, she is adamant that she will not lose her world title...
BUDAPEST, Hungary: He thought he had it. Jamaica thought he had it. But by a fraction, Oblique Seville was edged out of a first 100-metres World Championships medal. And the margins by which he lost out left him lost for words. But also it left...
BUDAPEST, Hungary: IN WHAT has emerged a memorable August for sport, technical leader of Jamaica's track and field athletics team, Maurice Wilson, has no doubt that the country's athletes will deliver, as the chase for glory begins today on Day One...
BUDAPEST, Hungary: Like many other athletes, world 200 metres champion Shericka Jackson writes down her goals, setting herself targets she wants to achieve. But, it also serves another purpose, as a form of therapy and retrospection that keeps her...
BUDAPEST, Hungary: Jumps coach Kerry Lee Ricketts has slammed Jamaica Athletics Administrative Association (JAAA) president, Garth Gayle, regarding the absence of a national jumps coach at the World Athletics Championships. According to Ricketts,...
BUDAPEST, Hungary: Hundredths of a second. That was the difference between 2022 Commonwealth Games 110 metres hurdles champion Rasheed Broadbell and a final appearance in his World Championships debut last year in Oregon. Since then, he has taken...
BUDAPEST, Hungary: THE MEMORY of missing out on last year's 100-metre hurdles final despite a personal best performance is the fuel that Olympic bronze medallist Megan Tapper is using for Budapest this year. Tapper arrives in Budapest in a season...
BUDAPEST, Hungary: National 800 metres record holder Navasky Anderson has been counting his blessings since qualifying for the World Athletics Championships hours before the qualification deadline. Now in his second consecutive appearance, he hopes...
AS THE International Olympic Committee (IOC) faces criticism regarding plans to allow Russian and Belarusian athletes to participate in next year's Olympics, Jamaica Olympic Association (JOA) President Christopher Samuda is against any boycott of the games, believing that all athletes have the right to compete.
IN OUTLINING the path to the 2026 World Cup, national head coach Heimir Hallgrimsson emphasised the need for immediate investment in cultivating young talent, which he believes will be key to qualification.
WHILE THE demand for the new Jamaica Adidas kit led to a temporary crash of the organisation's website, signalling a huge demand, local fans had mixed reactions about the new home and away jerseys for the next two years. Adidas unveiled the new...
A REPORT that the Jamaica Football Federation (JFF) would welcome English striker Mason Greenwood should he decide to change allegiances has not been met with the kind of enthusiasm the organisation may have hoped. Former national assistant Bradley Stewart and sports management expert Carole Beckford expressed opposition to any potential approaches for the player.
Sports Minister Olivia Grange says she still has confidence in the board of the Jamaica Anti-Doping Commission (JADCO) led by Chairman Alexander Williams and anticipates that the error that led to the girls' under 20 4x100 metres world record not...
Through the eyes of the St George's College coach Neville 'Bertis' Bell and Harbour View FC general manager Clyde Jureidini, the life of Edson Arantes do Nascimento, better known as Pele, is being celebrated not only for how he has influenced...
It was an endeavour that ultimately he had to take on alone. But for Caribbean Association of National Olympic Committees (CANOC) secretary general, Brian Lewis, the lifting of the lifetime bans of 1972 Olympic 400-metres champion Vince Matthews and his American compatriot, silver medallist Wayne Collett, was a fight worth pursuing to right a wrong spanning half a century.
STRONG DEFENSIVE mind, risk-taker, smooth operator, team-oriented. These are only some of the traits used to describe the new senior men's national team head coach, Heimir Hallgrimsson, by Icelandic journalist Guðmundur Ásgeirsson and Runólfur Þórhallsson, traits they believe will be critical assets in his bid to end the two-decade wait for a Reggae Boyz World Cup Finals appearance.
EUGENE, Oregon: The World finally belongs to Shericka Jackson. And with it, her ascension to the elite levels of sprinting is complete. In her second year running the half-lap event at the senior level, the 28-year-old put on an all-time best...
EUGENE, Oregon: Even by her high standards, Shelly-Ann Fraser Pryce, 'Mommy Rocket', soared into another universe last night further cementing her place as one of the greatest female sprinters ever. Pryce captured her fifth world 100 metres title in a championship record 10.67 seconds, leading a Jamaica sweep, and ensuring that the National Anthem will play at Hayward Field for the first time at this World Athletics Championships.
Former Jamaica Anti-Doping Commission (JADCO) executive director, Renee-Ann Shirley, says that the current executive led by Chairman Alexander Williams must resign following the testing failure leading to the non-ratification of Jamaica's 4x100 metres Under-20 girls world record.
The year 2022 will be remembered by the St Andrew Technical High School (STATHS) Under-16 football team for their success and for a painful loss. A loss that sportsmaster Conroy Omally hopes can be a call to stop the violence that is continually...
News that American sprinter Sha'Carri Richardson would not compete in the 100m at the Olympic Games after being hit with one-month suspension for testing positive for cannabis has led to widespread debate over whether or not the substance should remain on the World Anti-Doping Agency's (WADA) prohibited list.
Emasculated. That was one of the words that a Dunbeholden player used to describe his dire financial situation to club manager Paul Christie as the hiatus of local top-flight football continues to have a crippling effect on the sport's interests...
Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce arriving back on home soil with championship medals is a sight that Jamaica has gotten used to. But this particular homecoming was more poignant as the Jamaican sprinter arrived last night at the Norman Manley International Airport.
One of Jamaica's most decorated athletes is now cast in bronze. The statue of multiple-times Olympic and World champion Veronica Campbell-Brown was unveiled last night in a ceremony at Independence Park that celebrated her achievements, as well as acknowledging her for the legacy that she has set for future athletes.
Jamaican basketballer Lawrence Foreman has taken a monumental step in his promising career. The 18-year-old centre has committed to NCAA Division One School Rider University in New Jersey for 2020. The former Jamaica College standout says that the scholarship validates the hard work he put in towards this moment.
It only took a year, but the colours of dark blue rule urban schoolboy football again. Jamaica College (JC) captured their 30th ISSA/Digicel Manning Cup title, defeating St Andrew Technical High School (STATHS) 5-4 on penalties in the final at the...
Clarendon College can now celebrate to their heart's content. The back-to-back daCosta Cup champions retained their Olivier Shield in dramatic fashion, defeating Manning Cup champions Jamaica College (JC) 4-1 on penalties after drawing 1-1 in relegation time, after a lengthy delay in the first half.
It seemed inevitable that Tommi Gore would be on a racetrack testing his skills against the best, after all, his father - is one of the best race car drivers in Jamaica - Douglas 'Hollywood' Gore. When asked who the better driver is, himself or...
Jamaica Olympic Association (JOA) president Christopher Samuda says that any measures to criminalise doping in Jamaica would depend on the frequency of offences committed by the athlete. Samuda's statements follow a Reuters report from December 3 which says that Kenya will introduce legislation that will see criminal penalties, including jail sentences, for those caught doping.
Jamaica Athletics Administrative Association (JAAA) president Dr Warren Blake says the cancellation of this year's ISSA/GraceKennedy Boys and Girls' Championships may be necessary as a response to the coronavirus which had its first confirmed case in Jamaica yesterday.
WORLD ATHLETICS Championships discus silver medallist Fedrick Dacres still thinks a demand exists for athletes to compete this season. However, he says that a return to competition in the current health climate will be complex.
National defender Damion Lowe says that Jamaica is no longer content with just being another difficult adversary in the region, but rather to challenge consistently for Concacaf supremacy.
Videos
Content Created for Coverage of Paris 2024 Olympics
With the world championships not having a morning session on day three, staff reporter Daniel Wheeler took the time to meet up with his good friend Nikki Reid, a Jamaican who has lived in Hungary for years for a tour of the Castle Hill district of Budapest one of the must-see tourist attraction areas in the city
Of course, one of the first stops The Gleaner Sports team made in Budapest, Hungary was the newly-built National Athletics Centre. Positioned on the Danube River’s east bank, the stadium will initially accommodate 35,000 spectators. Here is more information about this arena and its future prospects after the championships conclude.
Sports Reporter Daniel Wheeler visits the Museum of World Athletics (MOWA) Exhibition, celebrating 40 years of the World Athletics Championships, ahead of the 2023 staging in Budapest, Hungary.
Interview with Jamaican track and field fan David Cover on attending the 2022 World Athletics Championships as a 60th birthday present.
Gleaner Staff Reporter Daniel Wheeler gives a quick tour of Hayward Field, home of the 2022 World Athletic Championships
The Gleaner Team tests the pulse of Jamaican fans and checks out the food truck culture as the 2022 World Athletic Championships begin from Oregon.
The Gleaner Team updates their progress as the prepare to cover the 2022 World Athletic Championships in Eugene, Oregon
A series interviewing Jamaica's notable sports personalities.
