Mark Pouchet
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Hockey teams start leaving today
BOTH TEAM TTO’s men’s and women’s senior hockey teams will start departing today for the January 19-30 Pan American Cup in Santiago, Chile after the Ministry of Sports and Community → Read More
Cowie: Step up your game
HEAD COACH of the men’s junior national hockey team Darren Cowie says that hockey administrators and stakeholders should set the example by setting higher standards and expectations for their organisation → Read More
...Stakeholders ‘disappointed’ over sport activity roll-back
Some sporting stakeholders in football and hockey expressed disappointment at the announcement yesterday of a roll-back of regulations on “recreational sport” .They are claiming inconsistency in the Government’s application of → Read More
TTOC supports Olympic overseas spectators ban
THE TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO OLYMPIC COMMITTEE (TTOC) supports the position taken by Tokyo2020 Olympic Games organisers to ban overseas spectators, as they attempt to ensure a safe environment for athletes. → Read More
Carter: Be creative trainers
TTOC SPORTSMAN OF THE YEAR Dylan Carter encouraged his fellow Team TTO athletes to find a way to create an even more competitive environment in training to compensate for the → Read More
TTOC to try something different with awards gala
“The plan is to make it interesting and different.” → Read More
Better in the Tests
Cricket West Indies (CWI) lead selector Roger Harper rated the Windies’ T20 series performance against the hosts -which they lost 0-2—as underwhelming and below expectations. → Read More
London 2017 4x400m champions are TTOC’s Sportsman of the Year*
“It is all about the team and teamwork. I couldn’t have done it without the rest of my team and it feels really great,” Team TTO athlete Rennie Quow was reflecting on the historic Team TTO men’s 4x400 IAAF World Championship title-winning team whose members were jointly named Trinidad and Tobago Olympic Committee (TTOC) Sportsman of the Year on Friday night. → Read More
Veteran journalist Mervyn Wells dies*
Legendary former Express sports editor Mervyn Wells, the man who boldly predicted Hasely Crawford’s 1976 men’s 100-metre Olympic gold medal in the face of all criticism, has died at 74.Wells, who died yesterday and was up to Thursday night working in the Express newsroom as the night editor, was one of the early employees of the Express newspaper that started in 1967, → Read More
T&T thrash Argentina 7-0, book World Indoor Hockey berth*
Germany, here we come!In an undefeated campaign, Team TTO senior men’s hockey team shell-shocked Argentina 7-0 in the Pan American Hockey Federation (PAHF) Indoor Pan American Cup final to storm into the FIH Indoor World Cup in Berlin, Germany next February. → Read More
HOCKEY MEN STAY HOT*
Trinidad and Tobago maintained their unbeaten record in the Pan American Hockey Federation (PAHF) Indoor Pan American Cup Men’s Tournament yesterday when they squashed Barbados 8-2 at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall in Georgetown, Guyana. → Read More
Gally/Morris: Wouldn’t wish 1989 on my worst enemy*
Both Strike Squad head coach Everald “Gally” Cummings and captain Clayton Morris have said while they were happy with T&T’s 2-1 win over USA on Tuesday night, the fact that the Americans were denied a World Cup spot in 2018 Russia doesn’t ease the pain of their failed 1990 Italy campaign. → Read More
Trinidad Express Newspapers: Sports
JEREEM “the Dream” Richards has described it as a great honour to be part of the 2017 Trinidad and Tobago men’s 4x400m gold medal winning relay squad that will be awarded the Chaconia Gold medal today at the annual National Awards ceremony.Richards, who recently signed a professional contract with worldwide sports shoe manufacturer Adidas, was part of a five-member team at the London Games in… → Read More
SETBACKS TO OVERCOME*
Trinidad and Tobago senior men’s head coach Dennis Lawrence says his team will be looking to overcome the challenges of injured and absent players and team members’ delayed arrivals to put on their best show when they confront Honduras in their CONCACAF World Cup Qualifying match at the Ato Boldon Stadium tomorrow. → Read More
Trinidad Express Newspapers: Sports
Jeron Thompson and the Team TTO girls beach soccer team topped off a successful week for this country’s youth and junior athletes when they won bronze and gold respectively at the Commonwealth Youth Games (CYG) in Nassau, Bahamas yesterday.Those medals took the tally from athletes competing at the CYG, World Para Athletics and the Pan Am Junior Athletics Championships to four gold and four… → Read More
Trinidad Express Newspapers: Sports
SEVENTEEN-YEAR-OLD Adell Colthrust captured Trinidad and Tobago’s first ever Commonwealth Youth Games (CYG) gold medal when he was first to the finish in the boy’s U-18 100m final at the 6th CYG in Nassau, Bahamas late on Thursday night.Colthrust, the Carifta U-18 sprint champion who is now fully recovered from an injury sustained two years ago, accelerated over the first 50 metres of the race… → Read More
Trinidad Express Newspapers: Sports
CHAMPION Trinidad and Tobago paralympic athlete Akeem Stewart got an $80,000 contribution yesterday from Southern Sales Services and the Guardian Group to assist with his preparation for the July 14-23 World Para Athletics Championship in London. The contribution rescued Stewart’s World campaign as he is yet to receive funding under the Ministry of Sport and Youth and Affairs’ Elite Athletes… → Read More
No horsing around*
The horse meat reason didn’t cut it.Trinidad and Tobago beach volleyballer Fabien Whitfield’s four-year ban for testing positive for testosterone and anabolic agents was upheld by the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) panel on Friday, even though the CAS found his testimony about possible contamination from consumption of horse meat “to be credible and truthful” and would not label him a… → Read More
Davis: Why Sachin?
Former West Indies player Bryan Davis thinks there are many Trinidad and Tobago candidates who are deserving of a stand in their honour at the Tarouba Stadium rather than legendary Indian batsman Sachin Tendulkar. → Read More
Trinidad Express Newspapers: Sports
The Amateur Swimming Association of Trinidad and Tobago (ASATT) won the bid Tuesday to host the 2019 Carifta Swimming, Open Water and Water Polo Championships, the first time in 20 years.On Tuesday, at the Carifta Congress at the five-day 2017 Carifta Swimming and Open Water Championships in the Bahamas, ASATT president Wendell Lai Hing placed the country’s bid against the one from the Barbados… → Read More