Track Heat­wave’s duo of Mor­gan Han­nock, throt­tle­man, and John Michael Sab­ga, dri­ver, made con­di­tions hot­ter than they re­al­ly were when the 57th edi­tion of the In­ter­na­tion­al Great Race was held from the Gulf of Paria in Trinidad to Store Bay in the sis­ter is­land of To­ba­go on Sat­ur­day.

T&T’s pair of Chloe Fras­er and Jor­dan Thong moved to the quar­ter­fi­nals of the Women’s Dou­bles af­ter an en­thralling con­test in the 1/8 fi­nal round of ta­ble ten­nis ac­tion at the Ju­nior Pan Amer­i­can Games in Asun­cion, Paraguay on Sat­ur­day, in which the team in red, white, and black pre­vailed 3-2.

There is a cer­tain elec­tric­i­ty that hov­ers over a coun­try when a big sport­ing oc­ca­sion is around the cor­ner. You can feel it be­fore you even step in­to the sta­di­um. The chat­ter in bar­ber­shops and bars, the ar­gu­ments, the posts cir­cu­lat­ing on What­sApp groups—they all re­volve around one thing: the match.

West In­dies’ ris­ing fast-bowl­ing star Jay­den Seales has made it clear that his heart be­longs to Test crick­et, de­clar­ing that no amount of fran­chise league rich­es, not even the glitzy In­di­an Pre­mier League (IPL), could lure him away from the longest for­mat.

“I be­lieve this was a mo­ment that called for a more ex­pan­sive and in­clu­sive ap­proach. We must recog­nise that the chal­lenges con­fronting West In­dies crick­et ex­tend far be­yond in­con­sis­tent per­for­mances on the field,” said West In­dies bat­ting leg­end Bri­an Lara, who was part of the two-day emer­gency meet­ing called by Crick­et West In­dies (CWI) pres­i­dent Dr Kishore Shal­low.

T&T cy­clists Makaira Wal­lace and Danell James added more sil­ver­ware when they raced to in­di­vid­ual bronze medals in their re­spec­tive six-lap keirin fi­nals at the sec­ond edi­tion of the Ju­nior Pan Amer­i­can Games at the Velo­drome in Asun­cion, Paraguay on Fri­day.

Na­tion­al long jump record hold­er Tyra Git­tens-Spotsville earned this coun­try’s first medal at the North Amer­i­can, Cen­tral Amer­i­can and Caribbean (NACAC) Area Track and Field Cham­pi­onships when he got bronze in the women’s long jump fi­nal in Freeport, Grand Ba­hama, Ba­hamas on Fri­day night.

Lim­it­less and Mr So­lo Too will be chas­ing miles of their own when the 57th edi­tion of the an­nu­al T&T In­ter­na­tion­al Great Race event from Trinidad to To­ba­go takes place on Sat­ur­day morn­ing.

T&T cy­clist Makaira Wal­lace won her sec­ond bronze medal in three days and T&T’s fifth over­all when she de­feat­ed Ar­genti­na’s Valenti­na Mendez in the women’s in­di­vid­ual sprint event, bronze medal ride at the sec­ond edi­tion of the Ju­nior Pan Amer­i­can Games con­tin­ued at the Velo­drome in Asun­cion, Paraguay on Thurs­day.

The reigns of cap­tain­cy with­in the Trin­ba­go Knight Rid­ers (TKR) have been passed on to one of the world’s lead­ing play­ers, Nicholas Pooran, for the up­com­ing Re­pub­lic Bank Caribbean Pre­mier League (CPL) 2025.

In three weeks, World Cup qual­i­fy­ing (WCQ) re­sumes af­ter the hia­tus since a for­get­table Con­ca­caf Gold Cup cam­paign. Twelve coun­tries sur­vived WCQ Round 2 and are di­vid­ed in­to three WCQ Round 3 qual­i­fy­ing groups. We are in Group B, up against Ja­maica, Cu­ra­cao, and Bermu­da. The three group win­ners au­to­mat­i­cal­ly qual­i­fy for USA 2026, while the two best run­ners-up ad­vance to an in­ter-con­ti­nen­tal play-off in March 2026.

T&T swim­mer Nikoli Black­man won his sec­ond bronze and first in­di­vid­ual medal of the sec­ond edi­tion of the Ju­nior Pan Amer­i­can Games when he fin­ished joint third with Brazil­ian Pe­dro San­sone in the men’s 50m freestyle fi­nal in Asun­cion, Paraguay on Wednes­day.