Af­ter over­com­ing nu­mer­ous chal­lenges, two of this coun­try’s top ath­letes, javelin throw­er Keshorn Wal­cott and cy­clist Te­niel Camp­bell, have of­fered re­newed hope for more medals, ti­tles, and in­ter­na­tion­al ac­co­lades in the com­ing years.

Us­ing sport as a tool to ad­dress at-risk youth is not about find­ing the next Dwight Yorke, Bri­an Lara, Anisa Mo­hammed, Keshorn Wal­cott, De­bra O’Con­nor, George Bovell, Jizelle Sa­landy, Akeem Stew­art, to name a few.

A vir­tu­al meet­ing of the T&T Cy­cling Fed­er­a­tion (TTCF) Rac­ing Com­mit­tee tonight will de­ter­mine the team rep­re­sent­ing T&T at the Pan Amer­i­can Track Cy­cling Cham­pi­onships in San­ti­a­go, Chile, from Feb­ru­ary 16-22.

As the count­down be­gins for the Con­ca­caf Un­der-17 Women’s Qual­i­fiers in Cu­ra­cao, head coach Ayana Rus­sell has of­fi­cial­ly named her fi­nal squad on Sun­day (Jan­u­ary 18), sig­nalling a new chap­ter for the na­tion­al pro­gramme.

WIND­HOEK –A promis­ing start evap­o­rat­ed un­der the Wind­hoek sun as the West In­dies Un­der-19s suf­fered a heavy 138-run de­feat to a dis­ci­plined Afghanistan side in their ICC Men’s U-19 World Cup Group D clash in Namib­ia on Sun­day.

KINGSTOWN – A com­posed, un­beat­en half-cen­tu­ry from She­maine Camp­belle guid­ed Guyana Women to a four-wick­et vic­to­ry over Ja­maica Women in the ninth match of the T20 Blaze in St Vin­cent at the Arnos Vale Play­ing Field on Sat­ur­day (Jan­u­ary 17).

DUBAI, UAE– With the ICC T20 World Cup loom­ing on the hori­zon, the West In­dies launch their fi­nal prepara­to­ry se­ries against a dan­ger­ous Afghanistan side in Dubai Sun­day, aim­ing to so­lid­i­fy com­bi­na­tions and fi­nalise their squad for the glob­al show­piece.

LI­MA – Ja­maica’s golf­ing pair of Zan­dre Roye and Os­hae Haye found the go­ing tough on the open­ing day of the 11th Latin Amer­i­ca Am­a­teur Golf Cham­pi­onship (LAAC) in Pe­ru on Fri­day.

​Trinidad and To­ba­go's 2026 Pan Amer­i­can Track Cy­cling Cham­pi­onship tri­als at the Na­tion­al Cy­cling Cen­tre in Bal­main, Cou­va, pro­vid­ed lo­cal ath­letes and sev­er­al elite rid­ers a first op­por­tu­ni­ty to gauge their progress on home soil on Sat­ur­day.

T&T’s Olympic javelin throw­er Keshorn Wal­cott ex­pect­ed­ly walked away with the Se­nior “Sports­man of the Year” award along­side cy­clist Te­niel Camp­bell, who told the au­di­ence that she plans to be the first fe­male cy­clist to medal at the Olympic Games, when the First Cit­i­zens Sports Foun­da­tion Awards at the Na­tion­al Acad­e­my of the Per­form­ing Arts (NA­PA) was held in Port-of-Spain Sat­ur­day night.

DUR­BAN – Skip­per Aiden Markram smashed a cen­tu­ry and Sunil Nar­ine im­pressed with the ball to guide the Dur­ban Su­per Gi­ants to a com­pre­hen­sive 58-run vic­to­ry over the Paarl Roy­als when the SA20 con­tin­ued in South Africa on Sat­ur­day.

In a glob­alised sport­ing land­scape, mi­gra­tion and sport are no longer sep­a­rate con­ver­sa­tions. Ath­letes, coach­es, an­a­lysts and sup­port per­son­nel now cross bor­ders as fre­quent­ly as com­pe­ti­tions them­selves. When man­aged thought­ful­ly, this move­ment of peo­ple can strength­en na­tion­al sport­ing pro­grammes, en­hance in­ter­na­tion­al re­la­tion­ships and pro­mote so­cial co­he­sion with­out un­der­min­ing lo­cal de­vel­op­ment.