“[…] While we understand the rationale behind the decision to suspend to team sports, the WBC hopes to convince you that boxing—more than any other sport—is better positioned to be reintegrated into society at short notice. “Indeed, in the execution of a boxing match, fewer than 10 individuals are in …
Read More »UFCTT denies ‘leading role’ in coaches march against restrictions, working on ‘Back to Play’ policy
“[…] The UFCTT is in the process of reaching out to other sporting disciplines to come together to develop a ‘Back to Play’ policy. The document will be sent to the Ministry of Sport who, with the guidance of the Ministry of Health, can fine-tune and make available to the …
Read More »Swappi, Trinidad Killa and Potts take aim at Glasgow Promotions over proposed Sea Lots fight
Soca artiste Marvin ‘Swappi’ Davis and dancehall singer Kern ‘Trinidad Killa’ Joseph emphatically distanced themselves and their proposed boxing bout from promoter Randy Glasgow today and criticised Glasgow for ‘false, deceptive and misleading’ utterances. Glasgow had been pushing for a pay-per-view market for the fight in the United States as …
Read More »TTOC’s must-read nameless magazine tells stark truths about Tokyo—and beyond
After the 2020 false start, T&T athletes sweated, cried and bled as they prepared to face the Olympic starters in 2021. While they did so, some of the country’s most accomplished and known sport journalists assembled their own Team TTO to come up with an interesting mix of nostalgia, analysis …
Read More »Sport Ministry pays out TT$3.3 m in grant funding, describes sport as ‘valuable stakeholder’
The Ministry of Sport and Community Development paid out TT$3.3 m in grant funding to ‘a combination of national governing bodies, community sporting groups, and athletes’ on Monday at the Ministry’s headquarters in Nicholas Tower, Independence Square, Port-of-Spain. The payments, according to a media statement, were made via the Ministry’s …
Read More »Dear Editor: T&T needs ‘learn to swim’ drive; it can be a matter of life or death for island nation
“[…] Successive governments have collectively spent close to a billion dollars in aquatics over the last decade, however, no focus has been placed on getting our citizens to swim—even though we live in a country that is surrounded by water. “Swimming is definitely a handy life-saving skill…” The following Letter …
Read More »Dear Editor: T&T U-21 hockey teams go straight from quarantine to action in Chile—how can they perform?
“[…] (The Trinidad and Tobago National Under-21 Hockey teams) left at midnight on Thursday, spent 13 hours at the airport in Panama, and finally arrived in Chile on Saturday morning. Then, they were placed in quarantine for up to 48 hours, until they got their PCR test results. “This means …
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 …
Read More »Lewis: ‘It will all pan out in the end’; TTOC president hails ‘awesome’ Olympic effort, defends ‘10golds24’ target
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 …
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