The decision by the Commonwealth Games Federation (CGF) to set just two compulsory sports — track and field and swimming — at Games as of 2026 has been described as a “body blow to sports” by Christopher Samuda, the president of the Jamaica Olympic Association
After almost two years without netball on the island, the sport returns with the three-match Sunshine Series between Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago, with the addition of practice games against a Jamaica men's team.
Jamaica will be represented in several sports at the first-ever Junior Pan-American Games which is scheduled to take place in the city of Cali in Colombia between November 25 and December 5, 2021.Responding to the call made by the Jamaica Olympic Association (JOA) earlier this
LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AFP)— Next year's Winter Olympics in Beijing will be held without spectators from overseas with tickets restricted to fans living in China because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the International Olympic Committee said Wednesday.
Jacqueline Cowan, president of the Jamaica Volleyball Association (JaVA), hopes that the nation will be represented in beach volleyball at next year’s Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, England. Cowan believes it is possible that despite a COVID-19-enforced hiatus on the game since last year, Jamaica could qualify
Olympic gymnast Toni-Ann Williams to pursue Master’s in Sports Administration via Olympic Solidarity
Jamaican Olympian Toni-Ann Williams is in Belgium to begin studies in Sports Administration on an Olympic Solidarity Scholarship via the Jamaica Olympic Association. The 25-year-old Williams, who created history in 2016 when she became the first gymnast to represent Jamaica at an Olympic Games, made the
The first Junior Panamerican Games will take place in Cali, Colombia, between November 25 and December 5 and preparations are in the final stages for what many predict will be a spectacular multi-sport event.
The Amateur Swimming Association of Jamaica (ASAJ) is brimming with pride over the advances made in the discipline of artistic swimming. For the first time, Jamaica was represented at the Junior and Youth International Open held in the United States and Nyouka Baugh and Sarah Anderson
The current administration of the Jamaica Olympic Association (JOA) continues to place emphasis on the importance of contributing and influencing the dialogue of sport development regionally and internationally and creating platforms for meaningful advocacy on critical issues that will advance, qualitatively, multilateral relationships.
In June 2017, when the Christopher Samuda-led governing body for Olympic and non-Olympic sports assumed office, the mantra was and continues to be “it will be business unusual” which has become the way of life at its corporate office at Olympic Manor at 9 Cunningham
and then 