Kingston, Jamaica: Jamaica's twice Olympic 200 metres champion Veronica Campbell-Brown was suspended by her national federation on Tuesday following a positive test for a banned diuretic at a meeting last month. "The Jamaican Athletics Administrative Association (JAAA) can now confirm that a case concerning Mrs Veronica Campbell-Brown is currently ongoing," the Jamaican governing body said in a statement. "She has been provisionally suspended from competition awaiting the outcome of a...
08:27 AM, Jun 19, 2013
Kingston: Twice Olympic 200 metres champion Veronica Campbell-Brown could avoid a maximum two-year doping ban because she declared a cream containing a banned diuretic, sources close to Jamaican athletics told Reuters on Tuesday. Jamaica's most successful female athlete tested positive for a diuretic, which can be used to mask the use of performance-enhancing drugs, at the International Invitational World Challenge on May 4. The sources said the banned drug was...
11:24 PM, Jun 18, 2013
Kingston: Jamaica's 200 metres world champion Veronica Campbell-Brown has tested positive for a banned diuretic, sources close to Jamaican athletics said. The sources said the doping violation occurred at the Jamaica International Invitational meeting on May 4 in Kingston. Campbell-Brown, who won the Olympic 200 title in 2004 and 2008, is Jamaica's most successful female athlete and the biggest name in track and field to fall foul of the drug...
07:12 PM, Jun 15, 2013
Oslo: Olympic champion Usain Bolt responded to last week's surprise sprint defeat in Rome by storming to a world-leading time of 19.79 seconds over 200 metres at the Bislett Diamond League meeting on Thursday. The Jamaican world record holder, surprisingly beaten over 100 metres by American Justin Gatlin in Italy, streaked away from the field to win comfortably on a chilly night in his first competitive race over the distance...
09:36 AM, Jun 14, 2013
Kingston: Usain Bolt will have to qualify for the 100 metres at this year's world championships after Jamaican officials decided the country's automatic entry into the race should go to his training partner Yohan Blake. But Bolt was given his country's wild card entry into the 200m after the Jamaica Athletics Administrative Association (JAAA) ruled in his favour for the longer sprint. The JAAA was forced to choose between its...
01:09 PM, Jun 13, 2013
Rome: Usain Bolt's defeat by Justin Gatlin in the 100 metres at the Rome Diamond League meeting on Thursday is unlikely to cause the Olympic champion too much concern ahead of August's world championships. American Gatlin, bronze medallist at the London Games after a four-year doping ban, ran 9.94 seconds to edge Bolt by 0.01 in a race that showed the Jamaican has yet to fully recover from the hamstring...
10:49 AM, Jun 07, 2013
Kingston (Jamaica): World 100 metres champion Yohan Blake says his main goal this season is to win three gold medals at the World Championships in Moscow August 10-18. The double Olympic sprint silver medallist and second-fastest man ever in both the 100m and 200m says his goal includes retaining his world title. "My big goal this year is to retain my title at the World Championships and to win three...
02:42 PM, May 28, 2013
Jamaica: World and Olympic 400m hurdles champion Melaine Walker has been confirmed for the 100m hurdles at the Jamaica International Invitational (JII) Meet on May 4. Walker will be running the sprint hurdle in a competitive event for the first time since 2006 when she was a student at the University of Texas. She is expected to face off against London Olympic Games 100m hurdles silver medalist Dawn Harper of...
02:36 PM, Apr 24, 2013
Kingston: World 100 metres champion Yohan Blake has been sidelined for six weeks after medical reports raised concern about an injury sustained at an event in Jamaica last weekend. Blake pulled up clutching his right hamstring in the 100m Saturday at the UTech Classic, while trailing eventual winner Kim Collins at the 50m mark, reports CMC. Blake's injury was originally thought to be a cramp but Timothy Spencer, a member...
11:19 AM, Apr 18, 2013
Kingston: Jamaica's world 100 metres champion Yohan Blake could miss the Jamaica International Invitational on May 4 and the Shanghai Diamond League meeting a fortnight later because of a hamstring injury, his coach Glen Mills said on Tuesday. Mills told Reuters that the right hamstring injury sustained by Blake during a 100 metres race on Saturday at the UTECH Track and Field Classic in Kingston was more serious than originally...
10:59 PM, Apr 16, 2013
Former West Indies cricketer Walsh and Robert Samuels will accompany Melbourne Cricket Club on a short tour of Bermuda next month. ...
04:26 PM, Mar 09, 2013
As part of his preparations, the Jamaican 100 and 200 metres world record holder will run the longer sprint at the Bislett Games Diamond League meeting in Oslo on June 13. ...
08:56 AM, Jan 24, 2013
The 18-year-old won his first senior England cap last month in the 4-2 friendly defeat by Sweden. ...
04:04 PM, Dec 26, 2012
Rio de Janeiro: Top Jamaican sprinters Usain Bolt and Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce are among the athletes in the running for the prestigious Laureus World Sports Awards 2013. Bolt and Fraser-Pryce have been shortlisted along with the world's greatest Olympic and Paralympic stars. The list includes British lawn tennis player Andy Murray, Australian swimmer Michael Phelps and Serena Williams, the American lawn tennis star. Bolt is aiming for his third Laureus World...
01:15 PM, Dec 19, 2012
Usain Bolt is a definite starter for another Olympic Games in four years' time, opening up the possibility of more sprint records or an attempt at other events, the six-time gold medallist said on Wednesday. Speculation has been rife since the London Games that the Olympic 100 and 200 metres champion could quit athletics and not compete at Rio de Janeiro in 2016. His hunger for success, however, appears to...
10:08 AM, Aug 23, 2012
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