De­spite miss­ing out on se­cur­ing a spot in the CON­CA­CAF Caribbean Cup (two) and CON­CA­CAF Caribbean Club Shield (one) as a top-three team by Sun­day (May 28), Ter­minix La Hor­quet­ta Rangers kept its slim chances of lift­ing the T&T Pre­mier Foot­ball League (TTPFL) alive with a 4-1 whip­ping of Pris­ons Ser­vices FC at the Phase II Recre­ation Ground, La Hor­quet­ta on Sun­day.

For­mer na­tion­al se­nior men’s foot­ball team cap­tain and na­tion­al women’s team coach, Ken­wyne Jones has re-ap­plied for the va­cant head coach­ing role of the women’s team.

Rhea Khan claimed her record ex­tend­ing 19th na­tion­al women’s ti­tle while USA-based Chayse Mc Quan won his third straight men’s edi­tion when the cur­tain came down on the Na­tion­al Squash Cham­pi­onship at the Queen’s Park Crick­et Club In­door Rac­quet Cen­tre on Sun­day night.

Jor­dane Dook­ie moved in­to the round of 32 on Mon­day af­ter on­ly her first day of the In­ter­na­tion­al Ten­nis Fed­er­a­tion’s (ITF)/Cen­tral Amer­i­can and Caribbean JITIC J4 Grade III Tour­na­ment in Mex­i­co.

T&T two-time Olympic swim­mer Dy­lan Carter swam to the gold medal in the men’s 50m freestyle Su­per Fi­nal on the first day of the in­au­gur­al 2023 AP Race In­ter­na­tion­al Long Course (50m) Meet be­fore 1500 spec­ta­tors at the Lon­don Aquat­ic Cen­ter, Lon­don, Eng­land on Sat­ur­day.

A prop­er­ly de­vel­oped sports tourism pol­i­cy pro­vides a good plat­form for suc­cess through im­ple­men­ta­tion, clin­i­cal mon­i­tor­ing, and eval­u­a­tion. Sports tourism in­volves the trav­el of per­sons for non-busi­ness rea­sons to par­tic­i­pate in and or ob­serve sport­ing ac­tiv­i­ties (Hall, 1992). Ac­cord­ing to Za­uhar (2003), sports tourism in­volves sev­er­al ac­tiv­i­ties.

Cen­tral Sports got su­perb in­di­vid­ual per­for­mances from Derone Davis, Aaron Al­fred and Rayad Em­rit as the trio en­sured the Fe­lic­i­ty-based team over­came Pow­er­gen in the T&T Crick­et Board T20 Fes­ti­val, Pre­mier­ship Di­vi­sion 1 fi­nal, at the Bri­an Lara Crick­et Acad­e­my in Tarou­ba, San Fer­nan­do on Sat­ur­day night.

Re­on Moore as­sist­ed on one goal and al­so scored to lead De­fence Force to a com­fort­able 3-0 vic­to­ry over W Con­nec­tion in the T&T Pre­mier Foot­ball League at the Man­nie Ramjohn Sta­di­um, Sta­di­um, Mara­bel­la on Sun­day.

Nikoli Black­man was among six Mar­lins Swim­ming Club com­peti­tors to come away with Age-Group FI­NA Points and High Points awards at the con­clu­sion of the four-day Aquat­ic Sports As­so­ci­a­tion of T&T (ASATT) Na­tion­al Open Long Course Swim­ming Cham­pi­onships at the Na­tion­al Aquat­ic Cen­tre in Bal­main, Cou­va last Sun­day.

FM Joshua John­son, rep­re­sent­ing T&T, ex­celled at the Con­ti­nen­tal Chess Cham­pi­onships held in the Do­mini­can Re­pub­lic from May 14-23.

With a top three spot as­sured at the end of Sun­day’s Match Day 18 pro­gramme, sec­ond-placed De­fence Force, and third-placed Tiger Tanks Club San­do will go in­to their re­spec­tive match­es to­day need­ing a win to join lead­ers AC Port-of-Spain as qual­i­fiers to the CON­CA­CAF Caribbean Club Shield (two clubs) while the third-placed team will com­pete in the con­fed­er­a­tion’s low­er-lev­el tour­na­ment, the CON­CA­CAF Caribbean Cup (one).

One of the worst things about this racism is how pre­dictable it con­tin­ues to be. Racism has long been found in Eu­ro­pean and South Amer­i­can sports and is in­ten­si­fied when play­ers of colour are put in the spot­light dur­ing ma­jor in­ter­na­tion­al com­pe­ti­tions. A tweet in re­sponse to the ha­rass­ment cap­tures this phe­nom­e­non: “When you score, you’re Eng­lish. When you miss, you’re an im­mi­grant," the Con­ver­sa­tion stat­ed.