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Thursday, July 24, 2025

Com­mon­wealth Games 2014

Ahye, Brown withdraw

...in­jured sprint­ers out Games

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20140727

Sprint sen­sa­tion Michelle Lee Ahye is out of to­mor­row's 100m semi­fi­nals af­ter limp­ing off the track, fol­low­ing her sec­ond place fin­ish in heat four at the Com­mon­wealth Games in Glas­gow, Scot­land. She did not stop to take ques­tions from the me­dia, clear­ly show­ing some dis­com­fort in her leg.

Ahye pulled up af­ter record­ing a dou­ble win in the 100m and 200m at the In­ter­na­tion­al Ath­let­ics Meet­ing in Lucerne, Switzer­land, two weeks ago, but lat­er said it was not se­ri­ous, cit­ing cramps as the prob­lem.

A re­lease from the of­fi­cials at the Games here said both Ahye and Dar­rel Brown, who did not take part in the heats were be­ing with­drawn from com­pe­ti­tion.

Ahye was slow out the blocks but grad­u­al­ly picked up pace some 30 me­tres out and crossed the line in 10.52 be­hind Cana­di­an Kham­i­ca Bing­ham.

Sprint­ers Ke­ston Bled­man, Richard Thomp­son, Kai Selvon and Ka­maria Du­rant, al­so qual­i­fied from their re­spec­tive 100m heats.

Bled­man blazed the field in the ninth and fi­nal heat of the men's 100m, run­ning in lane five, pro­gress­ing with the third fastest time 10.16 of all the qual­i­fiers.

"I am feel­ing bet­ter and I'm glad that no one is talk­ing about me so I can fly un­der the radar but my aim is to win gold. I am fit and ready. I am ready for a sub10 and I'm not con­cerned about the op­po­si­tion."

Thomp­son's en­try was a lit­tle more com­pli­cat­ed as he had to en­dure two false starts be­fore mov­ing on as one of the fastest losers in 10.33. He was third in heat three. On­ly the top two fin­ish­ers qual­i­fy au­to­mat­i­cal­ly.

"I mis­judged the race and the guys in first but I will be com­ing strong in the semi­fi­nals. I was not both­ered by false starts," said the two-time Olympic sil­ver medal­list. "I do not feel any pres­sure."

Selvon's and Du­rant's times of 11.66 and 11.80, re­spec­tive­ly qual­i­fied both as fastest losers.

In the women's 400m heats, Shaw­na Fer­min and Do­minique Williams pro­gressed to the next round with times of 54.10 and 54.43, re­spec­tive­ly while Romona Mod­este failed to get in­to the top 24 af­ter clock­ing 55.16.

Robert Colling­wood's best ef­fort of 17.83 earned him 13th spot, just miss­ing out on qual­i­fy­ing for the fi­nal round of the shot put event.

To­day, T&T quar­ter­mil­ers Jar­rin Solomon, Ren­ny Quow and Lalonde Gor­don race in the 400m and Ayan­na Alexan­der will be in the women's triple jump.

T&T swim­mer Dy­lan Carter had a full day of ac­tiv­i­ties yes­ter­day at the Toll­cross Swim­ming Cen­tre and when the wa­ter set­tled, he had pro­duced an im­pres­sive per­for­mance to take fifth spot in the fi­nal of the men's 100 me­tres freestyle fi­nal at the Com­mon­wealth Games in Glas­gow, Scot­land.

The 17-year-old mak­ing his de­but at the event, clocked 49.56 sec­onds, in a race to­tal­ly dom­i­nat­ed by Aus­tralian trio James Mag­nussen (48.11), who won gold, Cameron McEvoy (48.34) and Tom­ma­so D'Or­sogna (49.04), the sil­ver and bronze medal­lists, re­spec­tive­ly. Cana­di­an Yuri Kisil (49.27) al­so fin­ished ahead of the lo­cal swim­mer.

"I think I was out too slow. I knew the Aussies would be quick. I went a lit­tle faster in the semi­fi­nals but still glad to reach this point in the meet," said Carter. "It's my first Com­mon­wealth Games. I'm still a ju­nior so I will get bet­ter."

The young­ster takes the ex­pe­ri­ence as a learn­ing one and has al­ready clear in­di­ca­tion of which strokes he will be fo­cussing on in the fu­ture.

"My 100 free was good, my 100 fly was good...I may go to the youth Olympics and do some sprints. The 100 free this week showed me that I'm a sprint­er and I hope next year, I can hit a 48 (sec­onds), once I hit 48 I'm go­ing to be in Rio (Olympics) said Carter, who was re­lieved to fin­ish up my first Com­mon­wealth.

"I would say that it was very suc­cess­ful con­sid­er­ing a few things didn't go the way I would have planned...de­layed prepa­ra­tion. I got sick a cou­ple days out but I can say I re­al­ly en­joyed the Games.

"To my friends and fam­i­ly, who are here and who at home, thank you for sup­port­ing me.

"I want to thank George (Bovell) so much be­cause he re­al­ly men­tored me and helped me out through­out this meet. It was great to have him here as an ex­pe­ri­enced fig­ure to guide me."

Bovell, in the mean­time, did not take the pool yes­ter­day as he opt­ed out of swim­ming the 50m back­stroke fi­nal, a cus­tom­ary move by the Olympic bronze medal­list, who at times us­es this style to pre­pare for his pet event, the 50m freestyle that is card­ed for to­day. He will line up in heat nine in lane four 5.50 am (T&T time).

Carter com­pet­ed in two oth­er races yes­ter­day ear­li­er swim­ming in the 100m but­ter­fly heats in the morn­ing ses­sion clock­ing 54.21, which qual­i­fied him for the semi­fi­nals. He went on to place eighth in 54.45.

Ta­ble Ten­nis

T&T ta­ble ten­nis men won the clas­si­fi­ca­tion fi­nal af­ter beat­ing Ghana, 3-0. In the first match on ta­ble five Cur­tis Humphreys beat Em­manuel Com­mey, 3-1 (9-11, 11-7, 11-2, 11-9), then Dex­ter St Louis Fe­lix fol­lowed up with a 3-0 (11-5, 11-9, 11-7) win over Fe­lix Lartey.

In the dou­bles match-up, Humphreys part­nered with Aaron Wil­son to com­plete the sweep Lartey and D Abre­fa, 3-2, (12-10, 6-11, 11-8, 9-11, 11-7).

Cy­cling

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Njisane Phillip's and Quin­cy Alexan­der's dis­mal run con­tin­ued in the 20th edi­tion of the Games when nei­ther made it to the fi­nal.

Phillip placed last in heat two and fourth in the repechage while Alexan­der came in sixth in heat four and went on to fin­ish fourth in his repechage heat.

Box­ing

Box­er Michael Alexan­der con­tin­ues to im­press, beat­ing Pak­istani Ali Ahmed to reach the quar­ter­fi­nals of the light­weight (60kg) cat­e­go­ry.

To­mor­row, he will face Co­bia Breedy of Bar­ba­dos, who de­feat­ed An­drique Al­lisop of Sey­chelles.

Aaron Prince re­turns to ac­tion to­day at 9 am and will meet Ba­hami­an God­frey Stra­chan

Rug­by

T&T rug­by sev­ens men's team com­plet­ed its first vic­to­ry of the Games, top­ping Malaysia 15-10 in the semi­fi­nals of the Shield com­pe­ti­tion.

It was a short cel­e­bra­tion for the lo­cal rug­ger­men as they fell lat­er on to Sri Lan­ka, 43-7 in the fi­nal.

Hock­ey

T&T hock­ey women lost their third straight match but by a small­er mar­gin, 4-1. To­day the stick­women will play In­dia.

Al­so to­day, gym­nas­tics starts will all three T&T ath­letes in ac­tion. They are William Al­bert, Maris­sa Dick and Khazia His­lop.

Roger Daniel and Rod­ney Al­lan go for gold in the 50m Pis­tol.


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