It did not take Twen­ty-Five-year-old T&T ap­pren­tice jock­ey Learie Seecha­ran, very long to re­turn to the win­ner's en­clo­sure. On Tues­day evening af­ter rid­ing on three oc­ca­sions on Mon­day, Learie land­ed Rea Mea to a short-head vic­to­ry for own­er/train­er Chris­tine Am­mann.

BRIDGETOWN, Bar­ba­dos – Per­sis­tent rain ru­ined Pak­istan’s hot­ly an­tic­i­pat­ed run chase, forc­ing the aban­don­ment of the open­ing Twen­ty In­ter­na­tion­al against West In­dies on Wednes­day.

TOKYO – Flo­ra Duffy de­stroyed a world-class field to win an his­toric first Olympic gold medal for Bermu­da in the women’s triathlon in Japan Tues­day (Mon­day night, East­ern Caribbean time), trig­ger­ing ec­sta­t­ic cel­e­bra­tions in the small is­land in the North At­lantic.

Ju­do­ka Gabriel­la Wood is set to un­leash more than five years of in­tense prepa­ra­tion, dur­ing her much-await­ed de­but per­for­mance at the Tokyo Olympic Games in Japan.

TOKYO – At the age of eight, Bermu­di­an triath­lete Flo­ra Duffy dreamt of be­com­ing an Olympic cham­pi­on.

BRIDGETOWN – West In­dies pro­duced yet an­oth­er mediocre ef­fort with the bat de­spite open­er Evin Lewis’s un­beat­en half-cen­tu­ry, and Aus­tralia eas­i­ly chased down the pal­try to­tal to win the fi­nal One-Day In­ter­na­tion­al by six wick­ets and clinch the three-match se­ries 2-1 in Bar­ba­dos on Mon­day night.

BRIDGETOWN, Bar­ba­dos – West In­dies cap­tain Kieron Pol­lard has blast­ed the qual­i­ty of the Kens­ing­ton Oval pitch in Bar­ba­dos as “un­ac­cept­able for in­ter­na­tion­al crick­et”, fol­low­ing his side’s 2-1 de­feat in the three-match One-Day se­ries against Aus­tralia.

T&T's men and women ju­nior hock­ey teams have been giv­en the go-ahead to com­pete at next month’s Ju­nior Pan Amer­i­can In­door Hock­ey Cham­pi­onship in San­ti­a­go, Chile from Au­gust 21-28.

BRIDGETOWN – Head coach Phil Sim­mons is con­fi­dent the one-day se­ries de­feat to Aus­tralia will have lit­tle or no im­pact on West In­dies’ per­for­mance in the four-match Twen­ty20 In­ter­na­tion­al se­ries against Pak­istan start­ing in Bar­ba­dos on Wednes­day.

T&T sailor An­drew Lewis en­dured an­oth­er tough day in the men's one-per­son dinghy laser event, end­ing with a pile of points in race three on Mon­day morn­ing at the Olympic Games in Tokyo.

Box­ing pun­dits would say T&T's Aaron Prince was the cause of his own demise. And it might well be so.

The T&T Vol­ley­ball Fed­er­a­tion (TTVF) is seek­ing the sup­port of cor­po­rate T&T as they at­tempt to raise TT$200,000 to com­plete their bud­get to par­tic­i­pate in three ma­jor up­com­ing in­ter­na­tion­al tour­na­ments.