Top Track and Field ath­letes from 25 dif­fer­ent coun­tries in­clud­ing the Unit­ed States, Ja­maica, Great Britain, Turkey, Mex­i­co, Cana­da, Nige­ria, Cu­ba, An­go­la and T&T will com­pete on one track on May 21 at the Hase­ly Craw­ford Sta­di­um, Mu­cu­rapo.

The mega event, which is dubbed the "Show­down at Sun­down" will be host­ed by the Grand Games or­gan­i­sa­tion un­der all rules and stip­u­la­tions of the In­ter­na­tion­al As­so­ci­a­tion of Ath­let­ics Ad­min­is­tra­tions (IAAF).

It is said that lo­cal ath­letes such as Jamol James, Aleena Brooks, Rue­bin Wal­ters, Re­yare Thomas and Em­manuel May­ers have all con­firmed their par­tic­i­pa­tion for the event. Sev­er­al oth­er ath­letes from with­in and out­side the Caribbean re­gion have al­so pledged their al­le­giance to this meet.

The Men's 100m will be the blue rib­bon event.

The event has been sanc­tioned by NACAC (North Amer­i­ca, Cen­tral Amer­i­ca and Caribbean Ath­let­ic As­so­ci­a­tion) and the gov­ern­ing body will be com­ing to ob­serve T&T's sup­port and T&T's pro­fes­sion­al stan­dards.

All T&T sup­port­ers of ath­let­ics are asked by the or­gan­is­ers of the event to sport the na­tion­al colours–red, white and black show­ing sup­port for the T&T ath­letes.

The event, which will host a mega af­ter par­ty from 10 pm to 4 am, is deemed the biggest Ath­let­ic event in 32 years.

With an es­ti­mat­ed bud­get of US$1m, which in­cludes prizes that will range from US$4,800 for first place and US$3,600 for run­ners-up straight down to the eighth place fin­ish­er.

T&T Guardian un­der­stands that the Grand Games has been grant­ed an area per­mit by the NACAC, which means that any records bro­ken at the meet, with all oth­er tech­ni­cal as­pects in place, will be recog­nised. This is the first area per­mit meet since the 1984 Neal and Massy Clas­sic.

For ath­letes, all rules will be ad­hered to, in­clud­ing the con­duct­ing of dope tests.

The IAAF has al­ready as­signed a med­ical del­e­gate to the meet who will over­see all the drug test­ing. The equip­ment is cur­rent­ly in place at the Sta­di­um, where there is any short­fall, the NAAA's will en­sure that we have all the re­quired IAAF stip­u­lat­ed equip­ment for such a meet to take place here.

Tick­ets are priced at $350 (US$60 on­line), each of which is at­tached with sev­er­al pro­mo­tions.

Every pa­tron will al­so be en­tered for a chance to win a brand new Hyundai Elantra car which will be drawn on the day of the event. In ad­di­tion, the pur­chase of a tick­et gains en­try in­to the af­ter par­ty (Be­Grand2K16) at the Sta­di­um.

One can vis­it www.thettgg.com to see the big names com­pet­ing on T&T's soil.