The African Games, formerly the All-African Games, is taking place from 8-23 March in Ghana. Scheduled for 2023, they were postponed due to a regional impasse over marketing rights, delays in getting facilities ready and Ghana’s growing economic crisis. Kamilla Swart researches and teaches sport mega-events. We asked her about the African Games’ potential for sport tourism and about the pros and cons of hosting it.
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PERTH, Australia, (AFP) – Jamaica won a Women's World Cup match for the first time with a deserved 1-0 victory over debutants Panama on Saturday to close on a place in the last 16.
NEW YORK, NY. Friday, May 13, 2023 -- 45 years after the concept of a track and field club was realized on the campus of Cornwall College (CC) High School in Montego Bay, Jamaica, the organization is planning a function to recognize some of the individuals and businesses that have and continue to support its mission.
NEW YORK, NY. SUNDAY, OCTOBER 23, 2022 -- This year's World Coaches Day event will be held on November 13, at the Jericho Terrace Banquet Hall, Long Island, New York, and promises to be even more exciting than prior years.
GEORGETOWN, Guyana, September 24, 2022 - The Caribbean Premier League (CPL) must be seen as more than just an event but a platform for the Caribbean region to market itself globally.
EUGENE, Oregon, July 21, 2022 - Jamaica’s prowess as world sprint champions was again on show this evening, as Shericka Jackson, running the second fastest time in history, blazed to a championship and national record of 21.45 secs to win the women’s 200m title at the World Championships 2022.
MONTEGO BAY, July 17, 2022 - The Jamaican women have done it again, by producing yet another historic Track and Field clean sweep. This time in the final of the women’s 100 meters event at the World Athletics Championships 2022 here at the historic Hayward Field in Eugene Oregon.
KINGSTON, Jamaica, June 4, 2022: Opposition Spokesperson on Youth and Sports, Senator Gabriela Morris, says she is disappointed in the recent faux pas by the Jamaica Anti-Doping Commission (JADCO), which saw Jamaica’s World U20 Women’s 4x100m record being rejected by World Athletics.
Jamaica’s Elaine Thompson-Herah and Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce were at the top of their game on Saturday as both produced season’s best performances to win the women’s 100m and 200m, respectively, at yesterday’s Prefontaine Classic Diamond League meet at Hayward Field, Eugene, Oregon.
NEW YORK, NY. Tuesday, April 23, 2022 – Forty-five (45) years after it was established on the campus of Cornwall College, in Montego Bay, Jamaica, the Montego Bay Comets Athletics Club now Comets Club International, will celebrate the occasion with a grand reunion and awards gala, in New York City, on Saturday, May 28, 2022.
KINGSTON, Jamaica April 19, 2022 - As the curtains fell on the 49th staging of the Carifta Games at the National Stadium in Kingston, on Monday, host country Jamaica continued its dominance over the competition to maintain its record of topping the medal table at every Carifta Games since 1985.
Thursday, February 17, 2022. HARTFORD, CT.-- Cricketers and fans of the sport will get another opportunity to enjoy the beautiful game in the company of family and friends, during the summer of 2022.
NEW YORK, NY, February 15, 2022 - American sprinter Sha’Carri Richardson is not a happy woman. The decision by the International Olympic Committee on Monday to allow a Russian figure skating athlete to continue competing in Beijing despite a failed doping test did not sit right with her, as she found herself in a similar situation in 2021 before the Tokyo Summer Olympics, but with a completely different outcome.