Kwame Laurence
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Douglas strikes Texas gold
Rising table tennis star Derron Douglas struck gold at the Butterfly San Antonio Fall Open in Texas, USA, recently. → Read More
JEREEM’S DREAM COMES TRUE
“Coach told me to drop the hammer in the final, and that’s what I wanted to do... just drop the hammer.”Trinidad and Tobago track star Jereem “The Dream” Richards followed → Read More
KESHORN STRUGGLES
Keshorn Walcott’s 2022 World Championship campaign was hanging in the balance, at press time last night, here in Eugene, Oregon. The 2012 Olympic champion threw 78.87 metres in Group “A” → Read More
Jereem bolts into World Champs 200 final
Jereem “The Dream” Richards was on fire in his World Athletics Championship men’s 200 metres semi-final heat in Eugene, Oregon, USA, late on Tuesday. → Read More
Ahye out at semis; Fraser-Pryce golden again
Michelle-Lee Ahye was eliminated at the semi-final stage of the World Athletics Championship women’s 100 metres event here in Eugene, Oregon, USA, on Sunday. → Read More
Lendore’s final rest next Thursday
Deon Lendore will be laid to rest next Thursday, March 3. The funeral service takes place from 2 p.m. at the Santa Rosa RC Church, in Arima. There will be → Read More
LIVE: The Express in Tokyo
Saturday August 7 3.42am - Browne wins the first repechage heat, and is into the quarterfinals. 3.36am - Coming up in about a minute, Kwesi Browne in repechage heat 1. A top-two finish would earn Browne a quarterfinal berth. 3.14am - Great ride from Paul to finish second in heat three, earning automatic qualification for the quarterfinal round. 2.56am - Browne finished third in heat one, and… → Read More
LIVE: The Express in Tokyo
Saturday August 7 8.57am - T&T finished eighth in the Men's 4x4 final in 3:00.85. USA struck gold, ahead of Netherlands and Botswana. 8.50am - I'm back in Tokyo, thanks to the bullet train (Shinkansen). In a short while, here at the Olympic Stadium, T&T will hunt precious metal in the Men's 4x400 metres relay. 3.42am - Browne wins the first repechage heat, and is into the quarterfinals.… → Read More
Quiet Olympic swansong
Trinidad and Tobago bowed out of the Olympic Games Women’s 4x100 metres relay here in Tokyo, Japan, yesterday. Khalifa St Fort, Michelle-Lee Ahye, Kai Selvon and Kelly-Ann Baptiste combined for → Read More
LIVE: The Express in Tokyo
Wednesday August 4 5.06am - Paul loses the third and deciding ride against Dmitriev, missing out on a semifinal berth. Great going Nicholas Paul. You're young and you'll be back! 5.02am - Paul and Dmitriev are locked at 1-1 in their quarterfinal battle. A deciding ride will determine who advances to the semis. 4.20am - Nicholas Paul defeated Russian Denis Dmitriev in the first ride in their… → Read More
LIVE: The Express in Tokyo
Wednesday August 4 5.49am - Nicholas Paul keeps moving on in the Tokyo 2020 Men's Sprint event. The Team TTO cyclist beat Malaysia's Mohammed Awang in the 1/16 Finals. Paul will be back in action tomorrow in the 1/8 Finals. 3.53am - Nicholas Paul dismisses Australia's Matthew Richardson. With about a lap to go, Paul got around Richardson, and the race was over. Paul progresses to the 1/16… → Read More
LIVE: The Express in Tokyo
Wednesday August 4 8.59am - Richards finishes eighth in the 200 final in 20.39 seconds. Gold went to Andre De Grasse in a Canadian national record time of 19.62 seconds. Silver and bronze to the USA, Kenny Bednarek second in 19.68, and Noah Lyles third in 19.74. 8.55am - Welcome to Tokyo. I've made the trek from Izu to Tokyo, and I'm here now at the Olympic Stadium for Jereem "The Dream"… → Read More
LIVE: The Express in Tokyo
The third T&T quartermiler on show in the Men's 400 metres semis, Dwight Hillaire finished seventh in the third and final heat, and did not advance. St Hillaire clocked 45.58 → Read More
Semis agony for Ahye
Michelle-Lee Ahye came agonisingly close to facing the starter in an Olympic Games Women’s 100 metres final for the second time in her career when she clocked 11 seconds flat → Read More
STRONG START
Portious Warren and Michelle-Lee Ahye produced strong performances on the opening day of Tokyo 2020 athletics at the Olympic Stadium here in Japan, yesterday. → Read More
CARTER EXITS 100 FREE
Dylan Carter exited the Olympic Games Men’s 100 metres Freestyle event here in Tokyo, Japan, yesterday. Carter touched the wall in 48.66 seconds for third spot in heat six.The Trinidad → Read More
Walcott leads Tokyo charge
Keshorn Walcott will lead the charge for Trinidad and Tobago at the July 23-August 8 Olympic Games in Tokyo, Japan. The two-time Olympic medallist is among 30 athletes in seven → Read More
Ahye golden in Poland
Michelle-Lee Ahye produced a golden run at the Irena Szewinska Memorial meet in Bydgoszcz, Poland, yesterday. → Read More
Turku silver
Keshorn Walcott seized men’s javelin silver at the Paavo Nurmi Games in Turku, Finland, yesterday. Walcott threw a season’s best 82.84 metres to claim the runner-up spot, behind Marcin Krukowski, → Read More
Olympian Bertrand passes at 84
Trinidad and Tobago Olympian Dr Cliff Bertrand has passed away. He was 84. According to his daughter, Lisa, Dr Bertrand died yesterday of natural causes in New York, USA.Bertrand represented → Read More