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Athletics
$52m target!
Emotions ran high at the Jamaica Pegasus yesterday as Sagicor Foundation launched the 21st staging of its Sigma Corporate Run with a target of $52 million for the February 17 event. Read More
Kremlin blames 'logistics' for missed WADA deadline
Moscow, Russia (AFP) — The Kremlin yesterday said Moscow's failure to meet the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) deadline last week to hand over data from its anti-doping laboratory could be explained by logistical problems. Read More
Replacement of the Stadium East track remains on track — Grange
Olivia Grange, minister of sport, has said that she is pleased that the work to install a new track at Stadium East in the Independence Park complex started on Monday, as previously announced. Read More
18 Jamaicans among 20 sitting ITTF Level Two Coaching Course
EIGHTEEN Jamaicans are among 20 participants presently sitting the International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) Level Two Coaching Course, which began Monday at the University of Technology (UTech) and ends next Monday. Read More
Throwers dominate at First Chance meet
LUCEA, Hanover — Throwers stole the spotlight at Saturday's County of Cornwall Athletics Association's First Chance meet that was held at Collin Miller Sports Complex in Lucea. Read More
Photo: Bold undertaking
Oshane Bailey (right) passes the baton to Warren Weir during the men's 4X100m event at the 2017 edition of the IAAF World Relays in The Bahamas. (Photo: Observer file) Read More
WADA team returns to Moscow for lab info
MONTREAL, Canada (AFP) – A three-person World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) team will arrive in Moscow tomorrow to obtain laboratory doping test data after Russian authorities missed a deadline to provide the information. Read More
Class jump
Jamaica College's Safin Willis leapt an impressive 7.40m (0.4 mps) and won the Class One long jump in arguably the performance of the PureWater/JC/R Danny Williams Athletics meet yesterday. Read More
Photo: CLASS JUMP
Annishka McDonald of Vere Technical High School caught executing her winning effort of 1.65m in the girls Class Three high jump at the Purewater/JC/R Danny Williams Invitational track meet at Jamaica College's Old Hope Road campus yesterday. (Photo: Bryan Cummings) Read More
Williams named ACC Women's Track Performer of the Month
Twenty-one-year-old Jamaican sprint hurdler Jeanine Williams, a past student athlete of Immaculate Conception High, was named the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) Women's Track Performer of the Month of December. Read More
Sport Ministry negotiating another agreement with Chinese counterpart
THE Ministry of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport is negotiating with its Chinese counterpart to finalise another agreement, which will complement the current three-year technical agreement on sport between Jamaica and the People's Republic of China. Read More
2019 athletics season runs off today
THE Purewater/Jamaica College (JC)/R Danny Williams athletics meet is one of three that will highlight the start of the much-anticipated 2019 year along with the First Chance meet at Rusea's High School and the Ted Dwyer Classic at Excelsior High School. Read More
WADA athletes body seeks Russia ban over missed deadline
Montreal, Canada (AFP) — The World Anti-Doping Agency's (WADA) Athletes Committee yesterday demanded Russia be hit with new sanctions over its failure to meet a crucial deadline to hand over data from its drug-tainted Moscow laboratory. Read More
WADA confirms Russia misses Moscow doping lab deadline
MONTREAL, Canada (AFP) —Russia faced up to the possibility of renewed sporting sanctions yesterday when the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) confirmed the country had missed a December 31 deadline to hand over data from its anti-doping laboratory in Moscow. Read More
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