Sports

Two of the region’s most successful boxers will face each other for the Caribbean Boxing Federation heavyweight title on February 25.

Estranged West Indies opener Chris Gayle continued to heap pressure on West Indies selectors, plundering an unbeaten century to headline the opening day of the Bangladesh Premier League here yesterday.

With one round to go today in the preliminary rounds of the 2012 Sunday League series, a keen battle is on for quarter-final spots in Group B.

Guyana’s Senior Men’s National Team will undergo a training camp in Tobago next week during which time they will play two training games against T&T’s Under 23 Olympic Team and a Tobago Representative team at the Dwight Yorke Stadium.

“Attending this year’s Olympics is of peculiar and sentimental value to me because my father won his medal in London.”

T&T’s flatlander Keegan Alves captured a silver medal at the 2012 Festival International Sport Extreme (FISE) in Autodromo, La Guacima, Costa Rica on Friday.

Keston Bledman will get his 2012 Olympic campaign off when he lines up in the Millrose Games 60m dash at the Armory in Manhattan, New York, USA tomorrow.

The Ministry of Sports came in for high praise when its Talent Identification Programme picked up steam with a demonstration and skills display on Tuesday at the Marabella Boys Anglican School in south Trinidad.