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Minister of Sport and Community Development Shamfa Cudjoe described Trinidad and Tobago quarter-miler Jereem Richards as ‘phenomenal’, after the 28-year-old Point Fortin sprinter snatched gold in the 400-metre event at the World Athletics Indoor Championships in Belgrade, Serbia today. Richards, who is also the reigning Commonwealth Games 200m champ, crossed …

If Wayde van Niekirk didn’t exist, Jacques Rogge would have invented him. “We have just witnessed,” the radio commentator calling the 100m final at the Olympic Stadium in Rio on Sunday evening told the listening world, “one of the greatest if not the greatest achievement in the history of sprinting.” …