Trinidad and Tobago Olympic Committee (TTOC) president Brian Lewis has hailed the ‘awesome’ effort of the Team TTO athletes, despite their failure to medal at the Tokyo Olympics. Trinidad and Tobago have not failed to climb the podium since the 1992 Barcelona Games—almost two decades ago—while, according to a TTOC …
Read More »Demming: T&T’s Olympic athletes are suffering from govt’s haphazard approach to sport
I dedicated 30 months of my life to planning Trinidad and Tobago’s staging of the inaugural Caribbean Games 2009 (CG09) only to have it canceled because of the H1N1 virus. Despite the pleadings of the organising committee, the Games were cancelled just six weeks before the opening ceremony—dashing the hopes …
Read More »Dear Editor: ‘Our athletes have not failed; our administrators have failed them’
“[…] The blame for our poor showing has to rest with the government and the national sporting organisation: the NAAATT. “The athletes have been complaining for years about the non-support and lack of planning by the administrators but these grievances have not been addressed…” The following letter to the editor …
Read More »Why the Caribbean’s Olympic coverage differed between Rio 2016 and Tokyo 2020
The following article was penned for the TTOC Tokyo 2020 Olympic Magazine, prior to the ongoing competition: With no spectators likely to be in the stands, for the athletes the Tokyo 2020 experience promises to be unique. For regional televiewers, says LASANA LIBURD, it will be, if not unique, certainly …
Read More »Aaron Pollard, the physical presence behind BATCE’s Phys Ed scholarship success
‘Mr Pollard is the MVP!’ Herd immunity is something for which many governments all over the world are searching. In vain. Herd mentality is not quite so elusive but it’s hard to find among teenagers, who flex their muscles and push the envelope in a bid to prove their independence …
Read More »Kai, Jonathan and Warren added to Tokyo roster, TTOC take largest ever contingent to Olympics
The Trinidad and Tobago Olympic Committee (TTOC) has added three athletes to its initial contingent for the Tokyo Olympic Games, after ‘a late request for amendment’ by National Association of Athletic Administrators of Trinidad and Tobago (NAAATT) acting president George Commissiong. A release by Trinidad and Tobago Olympic Committee (TTOC) …
Read More »SVGOC: Whose head are they using for yardstick?! Olympic ban of ‘Soul Caps’ is discrimination
“[…] That Fina dares to state that the ‘Soul Cap’ does not follow ‘the natural form of the head’ must be seen for the discrimination that it really is. It exposes the organisation’s seemingly inherent bias. “[…] Our analysis suggests very strongly that the decision of Fina to ban the …
Read More »Walcott, Thompson and Cedenio among four returning medalists in 30-member Team Tokyo
Returning Olympic medalists Keshorn Walcott, Richard ‘Torpedo’ Thompson, Machel Cedenio and Deon Lendore are among 30 athletes who will represent Trinidad and Tobago at the Tokyo Olympic Games, which runs from 23 July to 8 August 2021. The Trinidad and Tobago Olympic Committee (TTOC), headed by president Brian Lewis, confirmed …
Read More »Thompson: Why ask ‘will the Tokyo Olympics go on’? Isn’t the question ‘should it’?
The debate is over. In an official communiqué in mid-June, G7 leaders reiterated: ‘our support for the holding of the Olympic and Paralympic Games Tokyo 2020 in a safe and secure manner as a symbol of global unity in overcoming Covid-19’. Already, IOC vice-president John Coates, responding to a question …
Read More »Dear Editor: How can New Zealand’s transgender weight lifter compete but not Semenya?
“[…] New Zealander weight lifter Laurel Hubbard, formerly Gavin, has been granted permission to compete as a female weightlifter. Laurel, formerly Gavin, is transgender who used to compete as a male but has satisfied the following criteria. “[…] The first opposition has come from ‘naturally-occurring females’. Quoting scientific research, they …
Read More »Media Monitor: Badjohn big boys beating up on Biles and Osaka is just not cricket
If Paul Pogba had had the temerity to be the first to do what Cristiano Ronaldo did during his media conference, would the UEFA response have been as muted? The question lurked darkly in my mind as I watched the TV news reporting the UEFA warning to the players to …
Read More »CCJ judge, Winston Anderson, gets four-year CAS appointment
Justice Winston Anderson, a Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) judge and chairman of the CCJ Academy for Law, will spend the next four years as a member of the Lausanne-based Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS), after his recent appointment to the international sport arbitration body. Anderson, a Jamaican national, …
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