The 2026 edi­tion of the Bri­an Lewis-in­spired and or­gan­ised T&T Olympic Com­mit­tee (TTOC) Gold Foun­da­tion Marathon Chal­lenge Walk for ath­letes, stepped off at 2 am on Sun­day (Jan­u­ary 18). Start­ing from Freeport in Cen­tral Trinidad, the event fea­tured over 115 walk­ers. The fact that some late reg­is­trants were un­able to par­tic­i­pate sug­gests a grow­ing in­ter­est in the cause across the coun­try.

T&T se­nior women’s vol­ley­baller Des­tiny De Leon and her Aguas­calientes Gi­ants were beat­en in their first two match­es of the Pro­fes­sion­al Vol­ley­ball League (LVP MX) at the Po­lifórum De­porti­vo y Cul­tur­al More­los in Mex­i­co.

KINGSTOWN, St Vin­cent – Trinidad and To­ba­go Women bol­stered their chances of mak­ing the T20 Blaze fi­nal by dom­i­nat­ing de­fend­ing cham­pi­ons Guyana Women by eight wick­ets in a cru­cial con­test Mon­day (Jan­u­ary 19).

When you think you are done, you can al­ways do one more. There is no prize at the end; there is on­ly fin­ish­ing. That’s when you dis­cov­er what tru­ly mo­ti­vates peo­ple—when the goal isn’t what you re­ceive, but what you con­tribute.

T&T will con­test the AFC group of this year’s ex­pand­ed FI­FA Se­ries that will take place dur­ing the FI­FA win­dows of March and April.

The pairs of Jes­si­ca Castagne-Hay/Skye La Fon (women) and Ely­on Cyrus/Joshua Burn­ley (men) se­cured the top spots in the T&T Vol­ley­ball Fed­er­a­tion (TTVF) Trin­ba­go Beach Vol­ley Tour Un­der-21 Di­vi­sion at Saith Park, Ch­agua­nas, on Sun­day (JAn­u­ary 18).

For­mer T&T na­tion­al vol­ley­baller Sinead Jack-Kisal was one of four Ecza­cıbaşı Dy­nav­it play­ers to score in dou­ble fig­ures as they hand­ed pre­vi­ous­ly un­beat­en Vak­if­bak their first loss in the Turk­ish Voda­fone Sul­tan Women’s Vol­ley­ball League on Sun­day (Jan­u­ary 18).

Pre­cious Son­ni­lal and Jer­an Bood­hoo reigned supreme at the week­end when the T&T Cy­cling Fed­er­a­tion held its first Moun­tain Bike Chal­lenge for the year at Teak Peaks Plai­sance Park in Point-A-Pierre on Sun­day (Jan­u­ary 18).

Na­tion­al swim­mer Zuri Fer­gu­son se­cured in­di­vid­ual sil­ver and bronze medals to help the Uni­ver­si­ty of Flori­da ‘Gators’ to a 179-119 win over host Auburn Uni­ver­si­ty at the James E Mar­tin Aquat­ics Cen­ter in Auburn, Al­aba­ma, on Fri­day (Jan­u­ary 16).

DUBAI, Unit­ed Arab Emi­rates – Led by a su­perb, record-break­ing per­for­mance by Ibrahim Zad­ran and Dar­wish Ra­sooli, Afghanistan romped to a com­pre­hen­sive 38-run vic­to­ry over an out of sorts West In­dies in their open­ing T20I match, Mon­day (Jan­u­ary 19).

De­fend­ing cham­pi­ons San Juan South Sec­ondary cruised in­to the semi­fi­nals of the T&T Sec­ondary Schools Vol­ley­ball League (SSVL) Boys Un­der-19 Di­vi­sion af­ter top­ping their Group A round-robin qual­i­fiers at the Aranguez North Sec­ondary Schools on Sun­day (Jan­u­ary 18).

An El­ton John goal in the 75th minute as­sured that Club San­do FC re­tained sec­ond in Tier 1 of the T&T Pre­mier Foot­ball League on 30 points, with the end not far away.