Noel Francis
@nanthonyfrancis
Freelance Track & field writer for World Athletics, Trackalerts, Champs magazine. Love my wife & sons, Statistician, Analyst, Auditor, cricketer, speak my mind
It seems unlikely that Jamaica's men's 110m hurdles Olympic bronze medallist will be fully fit to compete at the Tokyo World Athletics Championship. Perhaps, the injury at the JAAA National Senior Championship was more serious than previously thought. Hoping for the best.
Cricket news: Spinner Liam Dawson will play his first Test in eight years. England XI for fourth Test v India: Zak Crawley, Ben Duckett, Ollie Pope, Joe Root, Harry Brook, Ben Stokes (captain), Jamie Smith (wicketkeeper), Liam Dawson, Chris Woakes, Brydon Carse, Jofra Archer.
In a remarkable display of courage, Rishabh Pant, who retired hurt with a foot injury and was not expected to take any further part in the game, has returned to bat in the fourth test. He looks to be in discomfort but he's soldiering on. What a player! #ENGvIND #IndianHero
🇯🇲's rising star Bryan Levell ran a scorching personal best of 9.82 seconds (+1.3 m/s) to win the men's 100m at the 2025 Raiffeisen AUSTRIAN OPEN Eisenstadt. It was also a meeting record. What a time to be alive!!! 🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲👏👏🙌💪 @Sparkiebaby @rick_case @dpos_smith @hu_pow
It's a good look at how Jamaican athletes and teams are gradually achieving the standards of the World Athletics Championships. #tokyo2025 #OneJamaica #WeStillAWin 🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲
Congratulations are in order for 🇯🇲's Ashanti Moore for achieving the World Athletics qualifying standard after winning heat two of the women's 200m in 22.40 (+1.2 m/s) at the Raiffeisen AUSTRIAN OPEN Eisenstadt. Her time was also a personal best and a new meeting record. 🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲
The World Athletics Health & Science Department is recruiting endurance athletes competing at the World Athletics Championships Tokyo 25 to participate in a study focused on heat acclimatisation and hydration/nutrition strategies. Full story on the link worldathletics.org/news/news/heat…
Congrats to 🇯🇲's Samantha Hall, who threw a lifetime best of 64.97m in the women's discus to achieve the Tokyo World Championship qualifying mark of 64.50m at the Oklahoma Throws Series, Millican Field at Throw Town, Ramona, OK (USA). 👏👏🙌🙌
Several West Indies players in tonight's match were passengers. Let's call a spade a spade. Australia must be given credit for fielding a third-string team and still emerging victorious. #WIvAUS
England will host the next three editions of the World Test Championship finals in 2027, 2029 and 2031, the International Cricket Council has announced. All three WTC finals so far have been held in England. South Africa beat Australia in the 2025 showpiece at Lord's last month.
Jamaican magic ✨ 📖 Part 3 of our podium sweep series on the road to the #WorldAthleticsChamps Tokyo 25: The 2022 World Champs women's 100m felt like a remix of the Tokyo Olympics. The same legendary trio, just shuffled. Different order, same Jamaican dominance.