T&T’s two-time Olympic medal­list, Keshorn Wal­cott, con­tin­ues to be sup­port­ed on his jour­ney to the Tokyo Olympic Games by na­tion­al com­mu­ni­ca­tions so­lu­tions provider, bmo­bile.

BRIDGETOWN – Cap­tain Kieron Pol­lard has re­fused to en­ter­tain ex­cus­es for West In­dies’ chas­ten­ing 133-run de­feat in Tues­day’s night open­ing One-Day In­ter­na­tion­al against Aus­tralia.

A new era in T&T golf was ush­ered in last Wednes­day with the elec­tion of Wayne Bap­tiste as the new pres­i­dent of the T&T Golf As­so­ci­a­tion (TTGA).

HOUS­TON – Grena­da suf­fered their sec­ond straight 4-0 drub­bing of the CON­CA­CAF Gold Cup in an­oth­er chas­ten­ing de­feat, this time to Asian cham­pi­ons Qatar in Texas, USA on Sat­ur­day night.

T&T cy­clist Njisane Phillip will miss the up­com­ing TIS­SOT Union Cy­cling In­ter­na­tion­al (UCI) Track Cy­cling Na­tions Cup and pos­si­bly the World Track Cham­pi­onship af­ter the world gov­ern­ing body for the sport up­held a pre­vi­ous ban hand­ed down by Panam Sports.

An as­sign­ment that was ne­glect­ed, has de­prived the T&T So­ca War­riors of re­ceiv­ing its first and on­ly win of the CON­CA­CAF Gold Cup against Guatemala at the Toy­ota Sta­di­um in Frisco, Texas.

BRIDGETOWN – Cap­tain Kieron Pol­lard on Mon­day un­der­scored the im­por­tance of mak­ing a suc­cess­ful tran­si­tion to the longer for­mat amid the re­cent heavy di­et of Twen­ty20 crick­et, as West In­dies pre­pared to face Aus­tralia in the open­ing One-Day In­ter­na­tion­al (ODI) of the three-match se­ries in Bar­ba­dos on Tues­day.

De­spite a 1-1 tie with Guatemala in Group A of the CON­CA­CAF Gold Cup that con­firmed the So­ca War­riors' ex­it from the tour­na­ment, the per­for­mance of the na­tion­al men's foot­ball team said some­thing dif­fer­ent.

As we get ready for the start of the 32nd (XXXII) Olympic Games in Tokyo, Japan (Ju­ly 23 – Au­gust 8) one of the ma­jor ar­eas of fo­cus will be en­sur­ing ath­letes per­form with­in the In­ter­na­tion­al Olympic Com­mit­tee (IOC) rules and reg­u­la­tions.

Let me be­gin my dis­course by say­ing a re­sound­ing con­grat­u­la­tions to Nicholas Pooran and his fel­low West In­dies play­ers for their Twen­ty20 (T20) In­ter­na­tion­al se­ries win over the vis­it­ing Aus­tralians.

For as long as I’ve worked with na­tion­al foot­ball teams, the pe­ri­od when play­ers and staff are just about re­ceiv­ing their com­pli­men­ta­ry game tick­ets which they now have to hus­tle to pass over to their friends or loved ones has al­ways a been part of the pre-game rou­tine.

For most coun­tries in the Eng­lish-speak­ing Caribbean, sport train­ing is done at sea lev­el or a few hun­dred feet above sea lev­el. Port-of- Spain, for ex­am­ple, is at 67 me­tres (220ft) above sea lev­el. At an elite lev­el, we of­ten have to make it through com­pe­ti­tion in Cen­tral Amer­i­ca to ad­vance in sev­er­al team sports. This means per­form­ing at sig­nif­i­cant­ly high­er al­ti­tudes than that at which we train. Bo­go­ta, Co­lum­bia, for ex­am­ple, is at 2,644 me­tres (8,675ft).