T&T’s Cheque­da De Boulet part­nered Guyana’s Priyan­na Ramd­hani to lift the Girls’ Dou­bles ti­tle when the 2019 Care­ba­co Ju­nior In­ter­na­tion­al Bad­minton Tour­na­ment end­ed at the Sir Garfield Sobers Gym­na­si­um in Bridgetown, Bar­ba­dos, yes­ter­day.

T&T’s Jace Quashie and Na­then Mar­tin were both beat­en in their pool de­ciders when the In­ter­na­tion­al Ten­nis Fed­er­a­tion’s COTECC Trinidad Sum­mer Bowl con­tin­ued at the St Au­gus­tine Ten­nis Club in St Au­gus­tine on Sun­day.

T&T’s swim­mers cap­tured a sixth straight team ti­tle as the 25th an­nu­al Good­will Swim­ming Cham­pi­onships con­clud­ed at the Swem­bad Pari­ma Pub­lic Swim­ming Pool in Para­mari­bo, Suri­name, on Sunday.

For­mer cham­pi­on train­er John O’Brien will be look­ing to land his ninth win­ner in the Grade One In­de­pen­dence Cup over 1,800 me­tres on the turf course at San­ta Rosa Park, Ari­ma, on Au­gust 31st.

Team En­er­giza pow­ered to its maid­en Great Race ti­tle Sat­ur­day to de­ny Mr So­lo Too an 18th over­all crown in the 51st edi­tion of the race.

T&T men’s and women’s Un­der-17 teams re­mained win­less af­ter day two of the 2019 Pan Amer­i­can Youth Wa­ter Po­lo Cham­pi­onships at the Na­tion­al Aquat­ic Cen­tre in Bal­main, Cou­va, on Sat­urday.

T&T’s Nicholas Ready over­came Bar­ba­di­an Lance Castagne-Cler­mont in straight sets to earn a spot in the main draw of the Ju­nion Lev­el Five (J5) In­ter­na­tion­al Ten­nis Fed­er­a­tion World Ten­nis Tour at the Na­tion­al Rack­et Cen­tre in Tacarigua yes­ter­day.

T&T’s Leon Cassie and Vance Juter­am will come up against Bar­ba­di­ans Ken­nie King and Do­minick Scant­le­bury in the men’s dou­bles fi­nal of the 2019 Care­ba­co Ju­nior In­ter­na­tion­al Cham­pi­onship to­day at the Sir Garfield Sobers Gym­na­si­um in Bar­ba­dos.

ST JOHN’S—Chetesh­war Pu­jara tuned up for next week’s first Test with a com­pact hun­dred on the open­ing day of In­dia’s three-day tour match against West In­dies A here yes­ter­day.

Ath­letes, sports teams, clubs and sport­ing or­gan­i­sa­tions can pur­chase a sports in­sur­ance pol­i­cy to shield them­selves against pos­si­ble fi­nan­cial loss­es aris­ing from a range of caus­es. Sport in­sur­ance of­fers fi­nan­cial cov­er against med­ical ex­pens­es, ac­ci­den­tal dam­age and li­a­bil­i­ty claims in­curred dur­ing a sports ac­tiv­i­ty or event. Well, that’s what the gen­er­al un­der­stand­ing is any­way. As to how much of it is ac­tu­al­ly a re­al­i­ty in our coun­try, I’m cer­tain we’ve got a long way to go. Based on di­a­logue with sev­er­al of our ath­letes and or­gan­i­sa­tions, it ap­pears that the op­por­tu­ni­ty is not eas­i­ly avail­able, as in­sur­ance com­pa­nies are ei­ther skep­ti­cal with the risks in­volved or the cost is out of reach for the ath­lete, club or or­gan­i­sa­tion.

Dri­ver Shel­don Edghill and throt­tle­man An­tho­ny Brash took the ti­tle af­ter steer­ing their 37’ Bowen past To­ba­go-owned boat Je­sus is Com­ing in the wa­ters be­tween To­co and Store Bay, where the small­er Je­sus is Com­ing found it a lit­tle more dif­fi­cult due to the chop­py wa­ters.

T&T men and women Un­der-17 teams suf­fered lop­sided de­feats when the 2019 Pan Amer­i­can Youth Wa­ter Po­lo Cham­pi­onships host­ed by the Swim­ming Union of the Amer­i­cans (UA­NA) splashed off at the Na­tion­al Aquat­ic Cen­tre, in Bal­main, Cou­va on Fri­day.