It was a bit­ter­sweet mo­ment for T&T’s four-man bob­sleigh team of Ax­el Brown, Xaver­ri Williams, Sha­keel John, and De Aun­dre John on the fi­nal day of the Win­ter Olympics at the Mi­lano Corti­na Cen­tre in Italy on Sat­ur­day.

T&T’s chances of a medal at the Win­ter Olympic Games re­sume to­day as a four-man bob­sleigh team, be­ing led by cap­tain Ax­el Brown, will springs in­to ac­tion from 10 am Sat­ur­day morn­ing at the Mi­lano Corti­na Cen­tre in Italy. They will be re­quired to con­test two races.

Ari­ma Cen­tral Sec­ondary and Bon Air Sec­ondary se­cure hard-fought vic­to­ries in the boys’ Un­der-15 di­vi­sion to jump­start cam­paigns as the T&T Schools Bas­ket­ball As­so­ci­a­tion (TTS­BA) East Zone league re­sumed fol­low­ing the Car­ni­val hia­tus at the Mal­oney In­door Sports Are­na on Thurs­day.

T&T’s ju­nior Davis Cup and Bil­lie Jean King Cup teams left lo­cal shores yes­ter­day en route to Guatemala for their re­spec­tive tour­na­ments from to­day un­til Feb­ru­ary 28.

North East pulled off a stun­ning one-wick­et vic­to­ry over North Zone in the Evo­lu­tion Fit­ness Gym Un­der-15 Re­serve In­ter­zone Tour­na­ment host­ed by the T&T Crick­et Board (TTCB) in nail-biter at Hillview Col­lege ground in Tu­na­puna on Thurs­day.

In­ter Mi­a­mi de­fend­er Chaz Williams and mid­field­er Der­reL "Zoom Zoom" Gar­cia have been se­lect­ed in a 21-man team to con­test the Con­ca­caf Un­der-20 Qual­i­fiers start­ing on Tues­day in Cos­ta Ri­ca.

Nicholas Paul and Njisane Phillip have put them­selves in a po­si­tion for more medals for T&T at the Pan Amer­i­can Track Cy­cling Cham­pi­onships in San­ti­a­go, Chile.

ST GEORGE’S – In a cap­ti­vat­ing con­test at the Na­tion­al Sta­di­um in Grena­da on Fri­day, Sri Lan­ka Women’s spin­ners or­ches­trat­ed the telling blow to help their side to seal a nar­row 10-run vic­to­ry over the West In­dies Women in the first One Day In­ter­na­tion­al, tak­ing a 1-0 lead in the three-match se­ries.

Two teams with dif­fer­ent sta­tus­es in the Cham­pi­onship Di­vi­sion of the Courts All Sec­tors Net­ball League–the Uni­ver­si­ty of T&T (UTT) and the Re­boot Tigers–squared off in an ex­pect­ed "David vs Go­liath" clash. How­ev­er, the fi­nal re­sult told a clos­er sto­ry.

The road got de­served­ly rocky for T&T Pre­mier League cham­pi­on De­fence Force in the Con­ca­caf Cham­pi­ons Cup af­ter just the first round at the Hase­ly Craw­ford Sta­di­um in Mu­cu­rapo, Port-of-Spain, on Wednes­day night.

KOLKATA – The West In­dies were not at their clin­i­cal best but were still good enough to dis­patch Italy by 42 runs to saunter in­to the Su­per Eight phase of the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup on a win­ning note in In­dia Thurs­day.

Nicholas Paul ex­e­cut­ed a per­fect ride in the men’s keirin fi­nal Thursday to se­cure Trinidad and To­ba­go’s sec­ond gold medal of the Pan Amer­i­can Track Cy­cling Cham­pi­onships in San­ti­a­go, Chile. Mean­while, Ak­il Camp­bell, fol­low­ing in the foot­steps of his sis­ter, Te­niel, brought the T&T medal tal­ly to four by claim­ing bronze in the men’s scratch race.