Nicholas Paul ex­e­cut­ed a per­fect ride in the men’s keirin fi­nal Thursday to se­cure Trinidad and To­ba­go’s sec­ond gold medal of the Pan Amer­i­can Track Cy­cling Cham­pi­onships in San­ti­a­go, Chile. Mean­while, Ak­il Camp­bell, fol­low­ing in the foot­steps of his sis­ter, Te­niel, brought the T&T medal tal­ly to four by claim­ing bronze in the men’s scratch race.

KOLKATA – The West In­dies were not at their clin­i­cal best but were still good enough to dis­patch Italy by 42 runs to saunter in­to the Su­per Eight phase of the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup on a win­ning note in In­dia Thurs­day.

The road got de­served­ly rocky for T&T Pre­mier League cham­pi­on De­fence Force in the Con­ca­caf Cham­pi­ons Cup af­ter just the first round at the Hase­ly Craw­ford Sta­di­um in Mu­cu­rapo, Port-of-Spain, on Wednes­day night.

​"Dif­fer­ent lev­els" is how De­fence Force coach De­vorn Jorsling de­scribed the gap be­tween his team and their Ma­jor League Soc­cer (MLS) cam­paign­ers, the Philadel­phia Union, fol­low­ing Wednes­day’s 5-0 drub­bing in round one of the Con­ca­caf Cham­pi­ons Cup at the Hase­ly Craw­ford Sta­di­um in Mu­cu­rapo, Port-of-Spain.

I find the com­mon or gar­den va­ri­ety Eu­ro­pean league foot­ball served up to us on any giv­en day by lo­cal ca­ble tele­vi­sion to be im­mense­ly bor­ing. I much pre­fer to watch a match from the Sau­di Pro League or the South African Pre­mier­ship than suf­fer through the pre­dictabil­i­ty of Man­ches­ter City ver­sus Leeds Unit­ed or Paris Saint-Ger­main against Lens.

KOLKATA, In­dia – West In­dies cap­tain Shai Hope has giv­en the as­sur­ance that his team is ful­ly locked in as they bid to lift the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup for an un­prece­dent­ed third time.

There are se­ri­ous is­sues that I would have want­ed to dis­cuss to­day. How­ev­er, it’s Car­ni­val Mon­day as I write and Things That Mat­ter for to­day’s (Car­ni­val Tues­day) pub­li­ca­tion.

T&T’s pres­ence at the Win­ter Olympic Games was felt for a sec­ond time in Alpine Ski­ing on Sun­day (Feb­ru­ary 15) when Em­ma Gat­cliffe made her de­but. In do­ing so, she be­came the first fe­male ath­lete to rep­re­sent T&T in the event.

MUM­BAI – Even with the West In­dies hav­ing punched their tick­ets to the next phase of the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup, skip­per Shai Hope is adamant there will be no let­down in fo­cus when they take on Italy in their fi­nal pre­lim­i­nary match on Thurs­day.

KINGSTON, Ja­maica – Cap­tain of Ja­maica’s Un­der-17 men’s team, Jah­marie Nolan, has been named the Best Play­er of the re­cent­ly con­clud­ed CON­CA­CAF Men’s U-17 World Cup Qual­i­fiers.

When we think of mem­o­rable sport­ing mo­ments in T&T—a sold-out CPL (Crick­et Pre­mier League) match at the Bri­an Lara Crick­et Acad­e­my (BLCA) or an In­ter­col match be­tween arch ri­vals Na­pari­ma Boys’ Col­lege and Pre­sen­ta­tion Col­lege, San Fer­nan­do at the Ato Boldon Sta­di­um in Cou­va, or No­vem­ber 19, 1989 at the Hase­ly Craw­ford Sta­di­um when the T&T foot­ballers played the USA with a point need­ed to qual­i­fy for the 1990 FI­FA Italia World Cup, our minds fo­cus­es on the ath­leti­cism and the at­mos­phere.

‘Ex­cit­ed’ is how the mem­bers of the T&T cy­cling team feel ahead of the start of the Pan Amer­i­can Track Cy­cling Cham­pi­onships in San­ti­a­go, Chile on Wednes­day.