Barbadian athlete Akela Jones set a new national record in the women’s long jump on Saturday, and was agonisingly close to qualifying for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games. Competing at the Chula Vista Field Festival in Chula Vista, California, Jones was sixth overall with a leap of 6.80 metres. She hit the new national mark on the fourth attempt, backed by a wind of 0.2 metres per second. This replaced …