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Jamaica Olympic team

June 2024

  • Kishane Thompson will be among the favourites for this summer’s 100m at the Paris Olympics.

    Jamaica’s Kishane Thompson sends Olympic warning with 9.77sec 100m

    Jamaica’s newest 100m champion insisted he was slowing down towards the end of a race in which he ran the fastest time in the world in two years

February 2024

  • Olympic Champion Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce

    ‘My son needs me’: Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce to retire after Paris Olympics

    Three-time Olympic champion Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce has revealed she plans to retire after the Paris Games this summer

August 2021

  • Gold medalist Hansle Parchment poses with the medal he won with the help of a Tokyo 2020 volunteer

    Gold medal winner Hansle Parchment thanks woman who paid for taxi to semi-final

    Jamaican hurdler Hansle Parchment has tracked down and thanked a Tokyo 2020 volunteer who paid for his taxi to the Olympic Stadium

May 2017

  • Image from Champs documentary

    The Guardian documentary
    The sprinter factory – where girls compete to be Jamaica's next top athletes

    These are the girls running as fast as they can to be Jamaica’s new sprint champions in a country obsessed with its athletes. This is the story of the Champs national youth athletics competition that could change their lives

February 2017

  • 2008 4x100m

    Usain Bolt’s chances of regaining 2008 relay gold and triple-treble still alive

    Sprinter Nesta Carter has appealed against the decision to strip him and a Jamaican team featuring Usain Bolt of an Olympic 4x100 metres relay gold medal due to doping

August 2016

  • 200m-womens-header

    How sprint queen Elaine Thompson took Olympic gold in the women’s 200m

  • Jamaica’s Elaine Thompson is the world’s fastest woman.

    Elaine Thompson surges clear to capture women's 100m gold for Jamaica

  • Wellesley and Jennifer Bolt, parents of Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt, make their son's typical winning gesture during an interview Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on August 12, 2016, during the Rio 2016 Olympic Games. Bolt's parents predict the sprinter will deliver in his Olympic swansong. He is gunning to repeat his 2008 and 2012 exploits with a "Treble Treble" of gold in the 100m, 200m and 4x100m relay. / AFP PHOTO / TASSO MARCELOTASSO MARCELO/AFP/Getty Images

    Usain Bolt's parents, Wellesley and Jennifer visit Copacabana – video

  • Usain Bolt

    Usain Bolt circus rumbles into Rio but sprinter shows his serious side too

June 2016

  • Beijing Games

    Top Jamaican at Beijing Games tests positive for drugs in sample reanalysis

    Top Jamaican is one of 31 athletes from the 2008 Beijing Olympics to fail a retrospective drugs test

August 2015

  • On your marks: Jamaican sprinters at the Champs.

    From Usain Bolt to 'Donkey Man' – how Jamaica stays so fast

    Led by Bolt and Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, Jamaica is once more tipped to be the sprint team to beat at the athletics world championships in Beijing this weekend. Is the Caribbean island’s fiercely competitive school sports system responsible?

May 2014

  • The banned Jamaican athlete Dominique Blake will be eligible to return at the beginning of 2017.

    Dominique Blake has drug ban reduced from six to four and a half years

    The Jamaican 400m runner Dominique Blake has had her doping ban reduced by the court of arbitration for sport

April 2014

  • Sherone Simpson

    Jamaican sprinter Sherone Simpson to appeal 18-month drug ban

    Sherone Simpson, the Jamaican sprinter, will appeal her 18-month drug ban at the Court of Arbitration for Sport

January 2014

  • 16 Feb 2002: Winston Alexandr Watt and Lascelles Oneil Brown of Jamaica compete in the men's 2-man

    Jamaican bobsleigh team head to Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics – video

  • The Jamaican bobsleigh team inspired the film Cool Runnings

    2014 Winter Olympics: Jamaican bobsleigh team return after 12 years

  • Cool Runnings: the 1993 movie about the Jamaican bobsleigh team

    Cool Runnings II: Jamaican bobsleigh team qualifies for Winter Olympics

  • Sherone Simpson

    Sherone Simpson blames trainer Chris Xuereb for positive drugs test

November 2013

  • Asafa Powell

    Jamaican drug scandal 'tip of the iceberg', leading doctor claims

    Jamaica's recent failed drugs tests may be just 'the tip of the iceberg', according to the country's most senior drug tester, Dr Paul Wright

October 2013

  • (From L) Jamaica's Asafa Powell, Nesta Carter, Usain Bolt and Michael Frater celebrate after winning

    World Anti-Doping Agency delegation arrives in Jamaica - video

  • Asafa Powell

    Jamaican athletics brushes off threat of being excluded from Olympics

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