Field ath­lete Por­tious War­ren may be one of three late ad­di­tions to the T&T team, for the de­layed Tokyo Olympic Games in Japan.

The shot-put­ter, along with sprint­ers Jonathan Far­in­ha and Kai Selvon are the ath­letes like­ly to be added to the 57-mem­ber con­tin­gent that was an­nounced on Sat­ur­day by the T&T Olympic Com­mit­tee (TTOC).

In­ter­im pres­i­dent of the Na­tion­al As­so­ci­a­tion Ath­let­ics Ad­min­is­tra­tion of T&T, George Com­mis­siong, said this dur­ing an in­ter­view with An­dre Bap­tiste on a Ra­dio I95 FM sports show yes­teron Mon­day.

Com­mis­siong said fol­low­ing the guide­lines for ath­let­ics for the Games set from Ju­ly 23 to Au­gust 8, that the NAAATT nom­i­nat­ed five ath­letes in the re­lay events, how­ev­er, the or­gan­is­ers ad­vised that this num­ber could in­crease by one.

“Overnight the or­gan­is­ers had writ­ten in­di­cat­ing that we can in fact en­ter six ath­letes in each of the re­lay teams, so we are try­ing to now com­ply with that and the state­ments I am mak­ing is sub­ject to rat­i­fi­ca­tion by the TTOC and fi­nal ac­cep­tance by the or­gan­is­ers,” said Com­mis­siong.

He said these arrange­ments were made short­ly be­fore he went on air.

“So, If they are ac­cept­ed, we will end up with six ath­letes in each of the re­lay events.”

War­ren’s el­e­va­tion to 32nd on the rank­ings put her in place to rep­re­sent T&T in the women’s shot put event.

Com­mis­siong said: “The quo­ta for women’s shot put is 32. Giv­en her new rank­ing, she has al­so been ex­tend­ed an in­vi­ta­tion to com­pete at the Olympics and we have sought to ac­cept that in­vi­ta­tion by do­ing the nec­es­sary pa­per­work.

“We ex­pect that by lat­er to­day (yes­ter­day), we should have con­fir­ma­tion, so again I am say­ing sub­ject to con­fir­ma­tion, rat­i­fi­ca­tion by the TTOC and by the NOC, we may have any in­crease in the ath­let­ics team by three per­sons.”

Far­in­ha is now the sixth mem­ber of the 4x100 me­tres squad along with three-time Olympic medal­list Richard Thomp­son, Kion Ben­jamin, Adell Colthrust, Er­ic Har­ri­son and Akan­ni His­lop. Thomp­son won 4x100m gold, 100m sil­ver at the 2008 Bei­jing Games, and 4x100m sil­ver in 2012 Lon­don.

Selvon will re­new her part­ner­ship on the women’s 4x100m squad which in­cludes Michelle-Lee Ahye, Kel­ly-Ann Bap­tiste, Se­moy Hack­ett, Khal­i­fa St Fort, and new­com­er Ay­la Stanis­claus.

Jereem Richards, the 2018 Com­mon­wealth 200m men’s cham­pi­on, who was al­ready on the team will rep­re­sent T&T in the half-lap event is now the sixth mem­ber of the 4x400m re­lay squad.

The oth­ers are Machel Ce­de­nio, De­on Lendore, Dwight St Hillaire, Asa Gue­vara, and Che Lara.

Trio Ce­de­nio, Lendore, and St Hillaire will al­so take the track in the 400m event.

The now 24-mem­ber track and field team al­so in­cludes javelin throw­er Keshorn Wal­cott, a two-time Olympic medal­list (gold at the 2012 Lon­don Games and bronze at the 2016 Rio Games).

Pos­si­ble Ath­let­ics team

Track: Michelle-Lee Ahye (100m, 4x100m re­lay), Kel­ly-Ann Bap­tiste (100m, 4x100m), Se­moy Hack­ett (4x100m), Khal­i­fa St Fort (4x100m), Ay­la Stanis­claus (4x100m), Kai Selvon (4x100m), Sparkle McK­night (400m hur­dles), Kyle Greaux (200m), Jereem Richards (200m, 4x400m), Machel Ce­de­nio (400m, 4x400m), De­on Lendore (400m, 4x400m), Dwight St Hillaire (400m, 4x400m), Asa Gue­vara (4x400m), Che Lara (4x400m), Kion Ben­jamin (4x100m), Adell Colthrust (4x100m), Er­ic Har­ri­son (4x100m), Akan­ni His­lop (4x100m), Richard Thomp­son (4x100m), Jonathan Far­in­ha (4x100m).

Field: Keshorn Wal­cott (Javelin), And­wuelle Wright (Long jump), Tyra Git­tens (long jump), Por­tious War­ren (shot put)

Staff: George Comis­siong (team man­ag­er), Nic­Connor Alexan­der (coach), Dr Ian Hy­po­lite (coach), Charles Joseph (coach), Is­mael Lopez Mas­tra­pa (coach), Wen­dell Williams (coach)