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Clayton Twins Reportedly Leaving MVP as Jamaican Sprint Shake-Up Grows
The Jamaica Observer reports Tia and Tina Clayton are among the athletes leaving MVP for Corey Bennett’s new group, with a club statement expected by the end of October.
Jamaica’s post-season sprint shake-up is growing. A Jamaica Observer report on Oct. 19 linked star sprint twins Tia and Tina Clayton with a move away from the MVP Track Club to join the new professional group being formed by coach Corey Bennett — and 100m hurdler Kerrica Hill was also reported to have left MVP for Bennett’s camp.
MVP president Bruce James declined to engage with the story, telling the Observer, “We do not respond to rumours.” The club is, however, expected to release a statement toward the end of October clarifying which athletes have left since the death of founder and head coach Stephen Francis on July 4, 2026.
Tina Clayton would be the biggest name in any exodus. The 22-year-old won silver medals in the 100m and the 4x100m relay at the 2025 World Championships in Tokyo, where she ran a personal best 10.76. This season she won her first senior national 100m title at the Jamaican Championships in June and closed her year by winning the Diamond League final in Brussels in 10.93 — becoming only the fifth Jamaican woman to lift the Diamond League 100m trophy, after Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, Elaine Thompson-Herah, Shericka Jackson and Veronica Campbell-Brown.
The Clayton twins, products of Edwin Allen High, were nicknamed “Twin Turbo” after winning back-to-back World U20 titles. Where they train next will shape Jamaican sprinting for years.
Photo: PYV Media (Diamond League Final, Brussels)
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Saturday of Chaos: Five of the AP Top Seven Fall for the First Time Since 1936
College football has been playing with an AP poll since 1936. It had never seen a Saturday like this one: five of the top seven teams in the country — No. 1 Georgia, No. 2 Notre Dame, No. 5 Indiana, No. 6 Alabama and No. 7 Texas — all lost on the same regular-season day, and the top two teams lost on the same day for the first time since Nov. 17, 2012. For the second straight week, the nation’s No. 1 team fell to an unranked opponent, something that hadn’t happened since 1990.
The carnage: Auburn beat No. 1 Georgia 27-24 in Athens on a field goal as time expired, the Tigers’ first win there in 31 years. BYU toppled No. 2 Notre Dame 28-24 in Provo behind four total touchdowns from Bear Bachmeier, ending the Irish’s 16-game winning streak. Ohio State survived Indiana 19-15 in Bloomington, snapping the Hoosiers’ 22-game winning streak — but lost quarterback Julian Sayin to a shoulder injury. Tennessee’s defense strangled No. 6 Alabama 26-10 in Knoxville, holding the Crimson Tide to 201 yards. And Florida went into Austin and beat No. 7 Texas 27-24 behind first-time starter Tramell Jones Jr.
The survivors: No. 3 Miami needed two overtimes to escape Florida State 43-35 in a rivalry classic. No. 9 Ole Miss routed No. 13 Missouri 31-3, LSU blanked No. 16 Mississippi State 31-0, No. 10 Texas Tech hung 53 on Arizona State, and No. 15 Kentucky rallied to win 21-13 at Oklahoma. Michigan benched Bryce Underwood and still beat Penn State 21-18. Elsewhere, Utah edged Colorado 27-24, UCLA beat Wisconsin 17-7, Houston outlasted Oklahoma State 35-32, SMU topped Virginia 23-13, Wake Forest routed Cal 41-7, Oregon held off Nebraska 17-14, and Washington beat Purdue 38-26 on Friday night.
The new AP Top 25 tells the story of the shakeup: Miami is No. 1 with 40 first-place votes, BYU is No. 2 (20 first-place votes) and Ohio State No. 3 (9). Notre Dame sits fourth, Georgia fifth, Indiana sixth, followed by Ole Miss, Texas Tech, UCLA and Utah. Tennessee climbs to No. 11 and Kentucky to No. 12, while Alabama tumbles to No. 13, LSU rises to No. 18, Texas falls to No. 19 and Florida cracks the poll at No. 20. Missouri (No. 22), SMU (No. 23), Northwestern (No. 24) and Arizona (No. 25) round out the rankings.
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