Sev­er­al of the coun­try's top track and field stars will not be com­pet­ing at this week­end's Sagi­cor Na­tion­al Open Track and Field Cham­pi­onships. The Games are sched­uled for Sat­ur­day and Sun­day at the Hase­ly Craw­ford Sta­di­um, af­ter which the team to rep­re­sent T&T at the World Games will be re­vealed. Among those who will not be tak­ing part are Cleopa­tra Borel Brown, Richard Thomp­son, Ren­ny Quow and Kel­ly Ann Bap­tiste. Com­mon­wealth sil­ver medal­list Borel con­firmed yes­ter­day she will not re­turn­ing home for the meet.Borel said she has opt­ed to rest af­ter her fifth place fin­ish at the Avi­va Grand Prix in Eng­land on the week­end. Borel not­ed that this will not af­fect her se­lec­tion to the na­tion­al team for the World Games since she will be trav­el­ling to Daegu, South Ko­rea next week for the meet which will be­gin on Au­gust 27.

Bap­tiste and Quow have asked to be ex­empt­ed from the meet but both have al­ready at­tained the qual­i­fy­ing stan­dard for the Games and are cer­tain to be se­lect­ed. On Sat­ur­day Bap­tiste blazed to a sec­ond place in 10.97 sec­onds at the Avi­va Grand Prix while Quow took the Cen­tral Amer­i­can Cham­pi­onships ti­tle in Puer­to Ri­co in Ju­ly. Dou­ble Olympic sil­ver medal­list Thomp­son al­so sought an ex­emp­tion and is un­like­ly to be in the line up. His man­ag­er Em­manuel Hud­son said Thomp­son sought an ex­emp­tion but is still await­ing a de­ci­sion. Ac­cord­ing to Hud­son the As­so­ci­a­tion in­di­cat­ed that such a fa­cil­i­ty could not be ex­tend­ed to the de­fend­ing dou­ble na­tion­al sprint cham­pi­on but dis­cus­sion is still on go­ing. The Los An­ge­les based agent said no fi­nal de­ci­sion has been tak­en but added that com­pet­ing in Trinidad this week­end will be dif­fi­cult for Thomp­son. An­oth­er sprint­er who has at­tained the qual­i­fy­ing stan­dard, Ke­ston Bled­man is still to de­cide if he will be tak­ing part. Con­firm­ing par­tic­i­pa­tion was Em­manuel Cal­len­der while Marc Burns is ex­pect­ed in the coun­try to­day.