The Cayman Islands Athletics Association has announced their team of 6 athletes who will compete at track and field events at the Commonwealth Games in Melbourne.
Kareem Streete-Thompson will compete in the 100m and the 4×100m relay. Cydonie Mothersill, currently ranked fourth in the world, will compete in the 200m. First timer to the […]
Jamaica will be represented by 3 table tennis players at the Commonwealth Games in the form of Nigel Webb, Gavin Hylton and Darryl Strachan who were the top three placed players at the national team trial held by the Jamaican Table Tennis Association at the University of Technology last week.
Webb, Hylton, Strachan book Commonwealth Games […]
Jamaican sprinter Asafa Powell, the 100m world record holder, may not compete at the upcoming Commonwealth Games in Melbourne due to injury. 2003 World 100m champion Kim Collins from St Kitts and Nevis is already out of the event.
Powell doubtful, Collins out of Commonwealth Games
Barbadoes will have a record 132 athletes at the Commonwealth Games in March with that number possibly increasing further as more qualify closer to the games.
The Barbadoes Olympic Association now has to raise $500,000 USD to cover the cost of getting the athletes to Melbourne to compete at the Games.
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Caribbean welterweight champion Courtney Simister made a successful return to the ring on the weekend and has his sites set firmly on Melbourne.
“The Commonwealth box-off is a must,” Simister told journalists after he beat Anthony Williams of Job Walters Gym at ‘Saturday Night at the Fights’, put on by the Jamaica Boxing Board at Oakton […]
New regulations for Melbourne 2006 athletes means they must have nationality status if they want to compete for that country. Prviously competitors only had to have lived in that country for three years.
An appeal was rejected by the Commonwealth Games executive after the Cayman Islands had wanted foreign expats who were working there in […]
400m Hurdle sensation Andrea Blackett has announced she will not be taking part at next year’s Commonwealth Games.
The 29 year old has had a very busy year and believes that adding a major boost in regular preparation would be detrimental in getting ready for the Games. Blackett is planning on taking a mental break […]
Commonwealth record holder George Bovell III will not represent Trinidad and Tobago in Melbourne next year due to clashing events. Bovell, who is just returning from injury, will compete at the NCAA Championships as part of his US Collegiate Commitments.
In Athens, Bovell became the first competitor from Trinidad and Tobago to win a medal […]