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VIDEO: Man says athletes, not whales, should be on Yasco’s Wall
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Antiguan Duo Heading To South Bend In 2022
South Bend, IN – Defender Amali Colbourne and striker Troy Jules — who has represented Antigua and Barbuda at junior level — will join South Bend Lions for the 2022 USL League Two season, subject to League and Federation approval. The Antiguans are the first recruits identified for the new season after impressing during an…
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26 players selected for West Indies Rising Stars U19s High Performance Camp
Cricket West Indies (CWI) today announced the 26-member squad to continue preparations for the West Indies Rising Stars U19s tour of England next month. The squad was selected following targeted coaching sessions and an eight-match trial series in Antigua last week. The players will now continue training and planning sessions this week with a final…
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West Indies Women to host South Africa Women in eight-match series in Antigua
West Indies Women will be back in action in the coming weeks when they host South Africa Women in an eight-match series in Antigua at the Sir Vivian Richards Cricket Ground and the Coolidge Cricket Ground as they build up to the ICC Women’s World Cup qualifiers later this year. Following their CG Insurance T20I…
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Jamaica’s Elaine Thompson-Herah completes unprecedented ‘double-double’
Elaine Thompson-Herah confirmed her place among the pantheon of sprint greats as she secured an unprecedented women’s 100m-200m double-double with a sensational victory over the longer distance in Tokyo. The 29-year-old Jamaican surged home in 21.53 seconds, just .19 seconds off Florence Griffith Joyner’s long-standing world record, to back up her individual golds from Rio…
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Lewis Hamilton fears he has long COVID
Though he retook the points lead from Formula One championship rival Max Verstappen, Lewis Hamilton disclosed after finishing second Sunday that he still might be battling another nemesis: COVID-19. The seven-time F1 champion was treated by his team’s doctor for suffering from fatigue and mild dizziness after the Hungarian Grand Prix. Hamilton struggled to catch…
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Pakistan 157-8 vs West Indies in the second T20I
Pakistan, sent in to bat, reached 157 for eight from their allocation of 20 overs against West Indies in the second Twenty20 International on Saturday at the Guyana National Stadium. Summarised scores: PAKISTAN 157 for eight off 20 overs (Babar Azam 51, Mohammad Rizwan 46, Sharjeel Khan 20, Fakhar Zaman 15; Jason Holder 4-26, Dwayne…
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Jamaicans dominate Women’s 100m final to secure country’s first three medals at Tokyo Olympics
Elaine Thompson-Herah ran an Olympic and National Record 10.61 seconds (-0.6m/s) as she successfully defended her Olympic Games 100m title in a Jamaican sweep of the medals at the Olympic Stadium on Saturday. Two-time winner Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce was second in 10.74 seconds and Shericka Jackson took the bronze with a new personal record 10.76 seconds…
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Joella Lloyd out of the Olympics
Joella Lloyd will not advance to the next round of the women’s 100 meters at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. Lloyd finished outside of the top three in her second preliminary heat in the 100 meters at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics in Japan. Running in lane two, the Antiguan clocked 11.54 seconds to finish seventh from…
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Lloyd wins heat in Tokyo
Joella Lloyd is through to the next round of the preliminary stages of the women’s 100 meters at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. Lloyd, who has a personal best of 11.19 in the 100 meters, posted a time of 11.55 seconds to dominate her heat with her closest competitor Asimenye Simwaka of Malawi finishing second in…
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Olympics opening ceremony director sacked for Holocaust joke
BBC: The show director of the Olympics opening ceremony has been dismissed, one day before the event is due to be held. Footage of Kentaro Kobayashi from the 1990s recently emerged in which he appears to be making jokes about the Holocaust. Japan’s Olympic chief Seiko Hashimoto said the video ridiculed “painful facts of history”.…