Sports
CIFA partners with FIFA+ to stream local matches
(CNS): The Cayman Islands Football Association (CIFA) has entered into a partnership with FIFA+, an online international digital platform, to stream local football matches, allowing anyone to watch from anywhere in the world free of charge. The first game kicks off at 5pm this Sunday, 2 February (see here), when fans will be able to […]
Hastings claims LAAC golf championship title for Cayman
(CNS): Caymanian golfer Justin Hastings claimed the title of the 10th annual Latin American Amateur Championship on Saturday at the Pilar Golf Club in Buenos Aires, giving the Cayman Islands its second champion in four editions following Aaron Jarvis’s win in 2022.
Local boxing veteran inducted into Florida Hall of Fame
(CNS): Caymanian boxer Charles “The Killa” Whittaker has been inducted into the Florida Boxing Hall of Fame, which recognises individuals who have made a significant impact on the sport. Whittaker, who turned 51 this weekend, will join the other inductees in a ceremony this June at the St. Petersburg Hilton Lake Carillon.
Crooks blows his own world record out of water!
(CNS) UPDATED SUNDAY: Jordan Crooks (22) bagged the gold medal in the men’s 50 metre freestyle final at the 2024 World short-course championships, Sunday. But the Caymanian champ had already swam his way into the history books on Saturday when broke the world record in the freestyle heats in Budapest and then blew that record […]
Cayman to host its first Ultimate Frisbee contest
(CNS): The Cayman Islands will host its first-ever international Ultimate Frisbee tournament this weekend when visiting teams from the United States and Jamaica compete against local players. The object of the game is to score points by passing the disc to a player in the opposing end zone, similar to an end zone in American […]
Cayman sprinter upbeat, looking to next Olympics
(CNS): Competing in his first Olympic Games, 18-year-old Davonte Howell didn’t qualify for the Semifinals of the Men’s 100m on Saturday, but he’s already looking ahead to the next Olympics. “I know exactly what I need to fix,” the Cayman Islands sprinter said after his heat. “It’s my first Games, and it definitely won’t be […]
Crooks makes Cayman proud at Paris Olympics
(CNS): Cayman Islands standout swimming star Jordan Crooks finished the Men’s 50m Freestyle Finals less than 0.4 seconds behind the winner, Cameron McEvoy of Australia, and a hair’s breadth, just 0.08 seconds, behind Bronze medalist Florent Manaudou of France. In a race where there were the merest split seconds between the race times of the […]
Crooks advances to 50m Finals in Paris Olympics
(CNS): Crooks has become the first Cayman Islands swimmer ever to qualify for an Olympics Final. Swimming in the first of two semifinal races in the Men’s 50m Freestyle on Thursday, he was powerful out of the blocks and led the race from start to finish, clocking a time of 21.54 seconds, which was 0.04 seconds […]
Crooks swims to Semi-final round in second event
(CNS): Jordan Crooks qualified for the Semi-finals in the Men’s 50m Freestyle on Thursday morning, becoming the second Cayman Islands swimmer ever to advance to the semifinal rounds in multiple events at the Olympics. Crooks finished his heat in 21.51 seconds, which not only broke his own Cayman Islands long-course record in the event by […]
Crooks advances to Semi-Finals in men’s 100m Freestyle
(CNS): Cayman Islands swimmer Jordan Crooks has advanced to the Semi-Final round of the men’s 100-metre Freestyle in his Olympic debut. On Tuesday morning, 30 July, Crooks clocked a personal season-best time of 48:01 seconds and finished with the fifth-best time in the Heats round. He was third in his heat behind Jack Alexy (USA) […]
Cayman team among Paris Olympics’ Parade of Nations
(CIOC): On a rainy and overcast evening, the City of Light shone brighter than ever as a spectacularopening ceremony marked the beginning of the 2024 Summer Olympics. In the middle of the pompand circumstance that featured world leaders, sporting legends and some of the biggestentertainers in the world was the Cayman Islands Olympic Team.
