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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.
Cayman’s flagbearers for Paris Games opener chosen
CNS: At the 2024 Olympics opening ceremony in Paris tomorrow, Friday, the Cayman Islands team’s flag bearers will be swimmer Jordan Crooks and sailing contestant Charlotte Webster. The event, which begins at 7:30pm local time (12:30pm in Cayman), takes place on the Seine River with boats for each national delegation. It marks the first time […]
New generation of footballers scoop trophies in US Cup
(CNS): One of Cayman’s largest youth football programmes has achieved record success at this year’s Target USA Cup held in Blaine, Minnesota. Academy Sports Club returned from its week-long competition at one of the largest youth football tournaments in the world with one Gold and two Runners-Up trophies. The Club’s U19 boys won the Gold championship, […]
Four Caymanians head to Paris seeking Olympic glory
(CNS): The Cayman Islands Olympic Committee has revealed the four local athletes who are heading to Paris to represent their country at the 2024 Olympic Games later this month. Swimming siblings Jillian Crooks and Jordan Crooks, sprinter Davonte Howell and sailor Charlotte Webster will be the twelfth team to represent Cayman at the Olympics. Howell will […]
