TOKYO – A botched han­dover on the fi­nal leg of Ja­maica’s men’s 4×100 me­tres re­lay summed up a most­ly dis­ap­point­ing day for Caribbean ath­letes on the penul­ti­mate day of the 2025 World Ath­let­ics Cham­pi­onships in Japan on Sat­ur­day.

A vol­un­teer is “an in­di­vid­ual who works out of free will or rel­a­tive­ly un­co­erced and re­ceives no re­mu­ner­a­tion at all or on­ly a rel­a­tive­ly small re­im­burse­ment or pay,” (Cnaan, Handy & Wadsworth, 1996). Vol­un­teers serve as tech­ni­cal of­fi­cials and gen­er­al sup­port staff in the ex­e­cu­tion of any sport­ing event, whether at the com­mu­ni­ty, school, na­tion­al, re­gion­al, or in­ter­na­tion­al lev­el.

There’s on­ly one way to kick off this col­umn, and that's by rais­ing a glass to the re­mark­able achieve­ments of Keshorn Wal­cott and Jereem Richards. Their re­cent tri­umphs have not mere­ly put this coun­try on the world map; they have paint­ed it in bold, vi­brant colours for all to see. Once again, the sheer, unadul­ter­at­ed pow­er of sport has been un­leashed, re­mind­ing us all of its ca­pac­i­ty to in­spire and unite.

TOKYO – Ja­maicans Sh­er­ic­ka Jack­son and Bryan Lev­ell fin­ished third in the women’s and men’s 200 me­tres re­spec­tive­ly, to bring the cur­tain down on the sprint events at the World Ath­let­ic Cham­pi­onships in Japan on Fri­day.

Op­po­si­tion Leader Pen­ne­lope Beck­les has heaped praise on her for­mer par­lia­men­tary col­league and for­mer Min­is­ter of Sport and Com­mu­ni­ty De­vel­op­ment, Sham­fa Cud­joe-Lewis, for her role in main­tain­ing and ad­min­is­ter­ing the Elite Ath­letes As­sis­tance Pro­gramme (EAAP).

ST JOHN’S, An­tigua – Hav­ing not won a Test se­ries in In­dia since 1983, West In­dies head coach Daren Sam­my is well aware of the chal­lenges his side will face when they trav­el to the sub-con­ti­nent for a two-match Test se­ries next month.

ST JOHN’S, An­tigua – West In­dies will still have a pres­ence at the up­com­ing ICC Women’s World Cup, with um­pires Can­dace La Bor­de and Jacque­line Williams hav­ing been named to the Emi­rates ICC Pan­el of Match Of­fi­cials.

The tal­ent of school­boy sen­sa­tions Der­rel "Zoom Zoom" Gar­cia and Lin­dell Sween will not be on dis­play for this sea­son’s edi­tion of the Sec­ondary Schools Foot­ball League (SS­FL), which got go­ing last week.

To­co Sec­ondary is proud that its grad­u­ate Keshorn Wal­cott struck gold in the men's javelin at the World Out­door Track and Field Cham­pi­onships in Tokyo, Japan, on Thurs­day. The gold­en throw brought mem­o­ries of his Olympic tri­umph in Lon­don, Eng­land in 2012.

Jereem Richards sped to a spec­tac­u­lar sil­ver medal in the men’s 400 me­tres fi­nal at the World Out­door Track and Field Cham­pi­onships at the Na­tion­al Sta­di­um in Tokyo, Japan, on Thursday.

Trin­ba­go Knight Rid­ers (TKR) and St Lu­cia Kings bat­tle for a place in Sun­day’s Caribbean Pre­mier League fi­nal at Prov­i­dence Sta­di­um in Guyana, on Fri­day.

PROV­I­DENCE – Trin­ba­go Knight Rid­ers cap­tain Nicholas Pooran has been fined 20 per cent of his match fee af­ter be­ing charged with a Lev­el 1 of­fence un­der the Caribbean Pre­mier League (CPL) Code of Con­duct.