World Indoor Championships | Williams clocks personal best 7.06
Source: Jamaica Gleaner….. OLYMPIANS Briana Williams and Shericka Jackson advanced to the semi-finals of the women’s 60 metres after preliminary round action at the World Athletics Indoor Championships in Belgrade, Serbia on Friday. Williams clocked a personal best 7.06 seconds to win the sixth and final heat in the second fastest time. Competing in […]
Edwin Allen, St Jago display usual Central Champs dominance
Source: Jamaica Gleaner…… ANOTHER YEAR and things remained the same as Edwin Allen High School’s girls and St Jago High School’s boys tightened their stranglehold on the titles at the Central Athletics Championships at the GC Foster College of Physical Education and Sports yesterday. With five of the top female teams that will be in […]
Veronica Campbell-Brown, who led Jamaica’s golden sprint revival, retires
Source: Olympic Talk/NBC News Veronica Campbell-Brown, who won back-to-back Olympic 200m titles to lead Jamaica’s ascent to the top of global sprinting, announced her retirement on the eve of her nation’s Olympic Trials. “As I take off my spikes never to put them on again, this girl from Clarks Town walks away happy and contented […]
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Team Jamaica Bickle intensifies focus on athletes’ welfare with 5K run/walk
DESPITE the negative effects of the coronavirus pandemic and the resulting fallout in sponsorships and fund-raising activities, chief executive officer (CEO) of Team Jamaica Bickle (TJB), Irwine Clare says the focus was firmly on the welfare of Jamaican students in the United States. The COVID-19 pandemic, he said, had caused a serious shift in concentration […]
Pandemic Costs Team Jamaica Bickle $22m
From left: Team Jamaica Bickle (TJB) President Irwine Clare, Jamaica Athletics Administrative Association Second Vice-President Vilma Charlton, Jamaica Olympic Association First Vice-President Nelson Stokes, and Olympians Association of Jamaica’s (OAJ) Marvin Anderson at the signing of a memorandum of understanding signing between the TJB and OAJ at the National Stadium on Friday. Photo: Nicholas Nunes […]
TJB Signs MOU with Olympians Association of Jamaica
Irwine Clare (left), founder and CEO of Team Jamaica Bickle, and Marvin Anderson, president of the Olympians Association of Jamaica, show off the documents after signing a memorandum of understanding at the National Stadium on Friday. Photo: Nicholas Nunes Team Jamaican Bickle (TJB) founder and CEO Irwine Clare says that the organisation is entering a […]
Top Guns Set For Carifta Showdown
Racers Track Club’s Oblique Seville Source: Jamaica Gleaner THE TOP Under-17 and Under-20 athletes will be hunting places on the country’s team to next month’s Carifta Games, which is scheduled to be held in Hamilton, Bermuda, between April 10 and 13. Today’s opening day of competition at the National Stadium will see eight field-event finals […]
RJRGLEANER Honour Awards 2019 | Caring For Athletes At Home And Abroad
Recipient: Team Jamaica Bickle Category: Special Award: Voluntary Service Source: Jamaica Gleaner Jamaican high schools impress athletics enthusiasts and scouts on the track at the Penn Relays Carnival at Franklin Field in Pennsylvania, United States, every year, but a large part of their successes is due to the background work done by Team Jamaica Bickle […]
We Mean Business In 110m Hurdles – Sewell
Jamaica will have a very good 110m hurdles team in Doha, Qatar, for the IAAF World Championships this September. Moreover, one coach believes that the 110m hurdles will soon be one of Jamaica’s premier events. Craig Sewell, who has coached newcomer Orlando Bennett to a place on the team to Doha, says the world had […]