Trinidad and Tobago’s 4x100m relay teams close the curtain on Day Three as NGC NAAATT Junior and Senior Championship shines despite inclement weather at the Hasely Crawford Stadium in Port of Spain: More from Wired868 Unplugged: Jereem Richards, Keshorn Walcott and Tyra Gittens speak from the heart Jereem “The Dream” …
Read More »From Carifta gold and NBA camp to DNS; reviewing Aaron Antoine’s topsy-turvy 2022
The year 2022 started with a bang for 18-year-old Trinidad and Tobago field athlete Aaron Antoine. Now, though, it is likely to end with a whimper. Antoine, a gifted athlete in the high jump and long jump events as well as basketball, spent part of March at an elite development …
Read More »YEP Rising Stars: Shakeem McKay opens up on his goals and the impact of Deon Lendore
Wired868 talks to teenaged sprinter Shakeem McKay about his goals, motivation and the legacy of mentor Deon Lendore in the third instalment of our NGC Youth Elite Programme (YEP) series: More from Wired868 Defiant NAAATT Junior and Senior Champs draw curtain on 2024 Trinidad and Tobago’s 4x100m relay teams close …
Read More »Dr Hypolite: We have gerrymandering concerns; Comissiong: He’s bringing athletics into disrepute—NAAATT goes to the polls
Dr Ian Hypolite: “[…] Team New Vision is therefore very concerned about a repetition of a pattern of gerrymandering at elections in the past through ‘ghost clubs’ and other non-transparent means…” George Comissiong: “[…] I personally do not have a difficulty sharing the list of delegates, once the additional information …
Read More »B&B Ep 15: Ato Boldon on Crawford, Greene, Bolt, NAAATT—and the highs and lows of his track career
Four-time Olympic medallist, coach and analyst Ato Boldon talks to Burdie and Barney about the highs and lows of his storied track career, fighting with the NAAATT, his relationship with former teammate Maurice Greene, why Italian sprint champion Lamont Jacobs deserves the benefit of the doubt, and the impact of …
Read More »Daly Bread: 2024 for sure; T&T’s fanciful Olympic delusions
Commentators and editorial writers have already assessed that the showing of our Trinidad and Tobago athletes at the recent concluded Tokyo Olympic Games was poor and below the medal standard that we have achieved in every Olympics since Barcelona 1992. Ironically, at the previous Tokyo Olympics in 1964, our then …
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