Paulton Gordon, president of the Jamaica Basketball Association (JaBA), said they were happy with the men's team that made it to the quarter-finals of the FIBA 3x3 AmeriCup tournament in Miami, Florida, where they lost 22-17 to the top-ranked United States on yesterday's third and
SATISFIED with the country's landmark participation in one of the basketball's newest formats, the Jamaica Olympic Association (JOA) said it will continue to support the goals of its affiliates in the way it has backed the Jamaica Basketball Association (JaBA) in sending teams to the
Team Jamaica has made an exciting new find to boost its chances in international weightlifting competition, with the addition of Chloe Whylie, a grand niece of the late Professor Rex Nettleford, who has been getting attention in Britain where she was born of Jamaican parentage.
CEMENTING its legacy and platform for future sportsmen and sportswomen, the Jamaica Olympic Association (JOA), under the theme ‘Next Generation’, broke ground on Thursday to build out its Olympic Manor at Cunningham Avenue in Kingston.
When Joel Ricketts places his foot on his board in Cali, Colombia at the Junior Pan American Games later this year, he will have created history as the first Jamaican to compete in skateboarding in international competition but it will be only his first steps
The Jamaica Olympic Association will be offering international courses in coaching development, adaptive sports and sports governance starting in January 2022. The courses will be done in conjunction with the United States Sports Academy. Applications close on November 30, 2021.
Having defied the odds against them to cop 13 medals at the recently concluded Central American Championships in El Salvador, Jamaica Gymnastic Association (JAGA) President Nicole Grant-Brown believes significant strides have been made in growing the sport.
For Grant-Brown, the fact that locally trained gymnasts, in
The advocacy of the Jamaica Olympic Association (JOA) has won the battle for the sport of netball. For the first time in the history of the Central American and Caribbean (CAC) Games, the sport will be played at the 24th edition, scheduled to take place in
The Jamaica Olympic Association (JOA) and the Guatemalan Olympic Committee (GOC) created history recently when both sport apex bodies executed a sports co-operation agreement in Greece where national governing sport committees of countries worldwide congregated for the XXV General Assembly of the Association of National
Athletics strongmen Fedrick Dacres and O'Dayne Richards have been named ambassadors of the National Powerlifting Association of Jamaica (NPAJ) and have vowed to lift the sport to unprecedented heights.
The 27-year-old Dacres, who won discus silver at the 2019 Qatar World Championships and gold at the
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