USA-based top T&T swim­mer, Dy­lan Carter is in favour of next year's In­ter­na­tion­al Swim­ming Fed­er­a­tion (FI­NA) World Aquat­ics Cham­pi­onships and World Mas­ters Cham­pi­onships in Fukuo­ka (JPN) be­ing staged be­fore the Tokyo Olympic Games which were post­poned from Ju­ly of this year to Ju­ly 24 to Au­gust 8, 2021.

For­mer West In­dies leg-spin­ner Samuel Badree has de­cid­ed to throw his hat in the ring to be­come head coach of the T&T Red Force team.

For­mer cham­pi­on jock­ey Ricky Jadoo be­came the old­est jock­ey, in the 26 years of rac­ing of the sport at the cen­tralised fa­cil­i­ty at San­ta Rosa Park in Ari­ma, to win the Trinidad Der­by when he land­ed the Mer­lin Sam­lals­ingh-owned/Glenn Mendez-trained Cape Canaver­al in 2019.

Chair­man of the West In­dies se­lec­tion pan­el, Roger Harp­er, be­lieves that to be suc­cess­ful go­ing for­ward and to com­pete with the best teams in the world, the West In­dies need to have top-lev­el play­ers in all for­mats of the game at present. Harp­er was speak­ing on Is­ports on i95.5fm with host An­dre Er­rol Bap­tiste on Sat­ur­day.

As if the lo­cal horse rac­ing in­dus­try could not take any more body blows, the de­ci­sion to close the lo­cal horse rac­ing in­dus­try from March 28 has thrown the sport in­to a tail­spin.

Shut­tle Force Bad­minton Club, the most suc­cess­ful club in the coun­try, is send­ing ad­vice to all bad­minton play­ers of what they can do dur­ing this pe­ri­od of the glob­al nov­el coro­n­avirus (COVID-) pan­dem­ic which has al­so af­fect­ed T&T sports.

Trinidad and To­ba­go Se­nior Men’s team cap­tain Khaleem Hy­land is keep­ing busy and main­tain­ing high hopes of wear­ing the na­tion­al colours in the fu­ture again at what­ev­er time that may be.

KFC, the na­tion's favourite fast food, has de­cid­ed to start an on­line crick­et coach­ing project with as­sis­tance from Crick­et360.

For­mer T&T in­ter­na­tion­al hock­ey stand­out, Eng­land-based Kwand­wane Browne like many pro­fes­sion­al sports­men world­wide have been try­ing their best to keep fit and fo­cus as the world con­tin­ues to grap­ple with the coro­n­avirus (COVID-19) virus pan­dem­ic.

At­tor­neys for the oust­ed T&T Foot­ball As­so­ci­a­tion (TTFA) Dr Emir Crowne and Matthew GW Gayle have of­fi­cial­ly file an ap­pli­ca­tion to be­gin pro­ceed­ings of their le­gal bat­tle through the Court of Ar­bi­tra­tion for Sports (CAS) on Mon­day, against the world gov­ern­ing body for foot­ball, the Fed­er­a­tion of In­ter­na­tion­al Foot­ball As­so­ci­a­tion (FI­FA) on be­half of their clients.

Last year's TRINRE Caribbean Cham­pi­on Stakes could not have had a bet­ter fin­ish to a race which gen­er­at­ed so much hype and ex­cite­ment. That race was run on the main track at San­ta Rosa Park in Ari­ma on Oc­to­ber 26 dur­ing Day 33 pro­gramme.

This coun­try could end up with a back­log of events when the coro­n­avirus pan­dem­ic is over, and it will be the headache of or­gan­i­sa­tions like the Sport Com­pa­ny of T&T (Sportt) to fix a chaot­ic cal­en­dar.