The trio of Tariq Woods, Phoebe Sandy and Syn­del Sama­roo all dom­i­nat­ed their re­spec­tive cat­e­gories when the T&T Cy­cling Fed­er­a­tion Track Chal­lenge Se­ries No 1 took place at the Na­tion­al Cy­cling Cen­tre in Bal­main, Cou­va on Sat­ur­day.

St Lu­cian Ja­son Say­ers and Shardie Ma­habir cap­tured the men’s and women’s ti­tles when the 41st edi­tion of the 26.2 miles T&T In­ter­na­tion­al Marathon took place over a new­ly re­vised course on Sun­day morn­ing.

BU­L­AWAYO – Cap­tain Kraigg Brath­waite has urged his bats­men to make their starts count, if West In­dies are to mount large to­tals in the two-Test se­ries against Zim­bab­we next month.

Rowe­na Williams, pres­i­dent of the T&T Cy­cling Fed­er­a­tion (TTCF) says she is pleased with the in­creased par­tic­i­pa­tion among the youths in Moun­tain Bike rac­ing.

LON­DON – Reg­gae Boy Jon­son Clarke-Har­ris climbed back to the top of the Eng­lish League One scor­ing charts with a first-half brace as Dar­ren Fer­gu­son’s suc­cess­ful re­turn to Pe­ter­bor­ough Unit­ed as man­ag­er con­tin­ued with a 2-1 home tri­umph against Portsmouth on Sat­ur­day.

BU­L­AWAYO, Zim­bab­we – Test vice-cap­tain Jer­maine Black­wood be­lieves a strong start to the two-Test se­ries against Zim­bab­we will be vi­tal for West In­dies, es­pe­cial­ly with the squad still ad­just­ing to an over­hauled man­age­ment team.

Can­dace LaBor­de of T&T has been named among the match of­fi­cials for the fi­nal of the ICC Women’s Un­der-19 T20 World Cup. The fi­nal will be played on Sun­day be­tween In­dia and Eng­land at the JB Marks Oval in Potchef­stroom in South Africa.

For­mer cham­pi­on train­er Glenn Mendez has sig­nalled his in­ten­tion for this sea­son with a dou­ble in­clud­ing the main event at the San­ta Rosa Park, Ari­ma, on Sat­ur­day.

BU­L­AWAYO – Cap­tain Kraigg Brath­waite struck a com­posed hun­dred to ex­tend his pro­lif­ic form and lead a healthy West In­dies bat­ting ef­fort on the open­ing day of their four-day tour match against a Zim­bab­we XI in Zim­bab­we on Sat­ur­day.

Na­tion­al swim­mer Ja­da Cha­toor missed out on medals in both the women's 200-yard and 500-yard freestyle events when her Emory Uni­ver­si­ty swim­ming and div­ing teams faced off against the Uni­ver­si­ty of Geor­gia at the Ram­sey Aquat­ic Cen­ter at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Geor­gia, USA on Sat­ur­day.

We hear sports­peo­ple talk a lot about fo­cus. Fo­cus re­lies on the per­former’s abil­i­ty to tune out back­ground noise and dis­trac­tions in the en­vi­ron­ment. What is less talked about as it not as vis­i­ble is that an­oth­er part of fo­cus is deal­ing with the dis­trac­tions of in­ter­nal noise and in­ter­fer­ence with­in the per­former’s own mind. Feel­ings, self-talk and dis­tract­ing thoughts are equal­ly as­pects that every per­former must learn to man­age.

The quin­tet of Kai­him Thomas, Re­al Gill, Justin Sadoo, Dar­nell Hospedales and goal­keep­er Isa­iah Williams will all be hop­ing to make im­pres­sive de­buts when T&T se­nior men's foot­ball team coach An­gus Eve and his So­ca War­riors kick off their 2023 in­ter­na­tion­al cal­en­dar with a friend­ly match against Saint Mar­tin at the Hase­ly Craw­ford Sta­di­um, Mu­cu­rapo, on Sun­day from 6 pm.