We’ve ar­rived at the point where there is no room for hes­i­ta­tion, no space for half-mea­sures. This is the lev­el — the World Cup Fi­nal Round qual­i­fy­ing stage — where prepa­ra­tion meets pres­sure, and on­ly the strongest, most unit­ed teams sur­vive.

Kevez Quin­tero scored the lone goal as T&T Un­der-15s bat­tled to a 1-0 win over Guatemala for the bronze medal in League B of the 2025 Con­ca­caf Boys’ Un­der-15 Cham­pi­onship at the Sta­dion CD Jose Wev­er in Oran­jes­tad, Aru­ba on Sat­ur­day.

ST JOHN’S, An­tigua – Crick­et West In­dies (CWI) pres­i­dent, Dr Kishore Shal­low has called an emer­gency meet­ing to ad­dress crit­i­cal chal­lenges fac­ing West In­dies crick­et and im­ple­ment im­me­di­ate struc­tur­al re­forms.

T&T ju­nior ath­letes will be­gin their medal hunt at the sec­ond edi­tion of the Ju­nior Pan Amer­i­can Games in Asun­cion, Paraguay on Sun­day.

With the coun­try’s con­tin­gent seek­ing to do Trinidad and To­ba­go proud at the Ju­nior Pan Amer­i­can Games in Paraguay – which start­ed yes­ter­day – Guardian Me­dia Sports un­der­stands that an in­ter­nal dis­pute in the Ta­ble Ten­nis As­so­ci­a­tion is threat­en­ing to po­ten­tial­ly un­der­mine the ta­ble ten­nis team’s prepa­ra­tions and chances.

De­spite the re­turn of four key play­ers, in­clud­ing Chan­non Thomp­son and Krys­telle Es­delle in the T&T team for Thurs­day's (Au­gust 7) fourth en­counter of the Pan Amer­i­can Cup in Mex­i­co, T&T’s se­nior women’s team still failed to cope with a su­pe­ri­or Venezue­lan out­fit that con­fined them to their fourth loss of the tour­na­ment, 3-0.

Sport and Youth Af­fairs Min­is­ter Phillip Watts has called on young ath­letes to stay dis­ci­plined as they con­tin­ue their de­vel­op­ment both on and off the court.

KINGSTOWN – Two gi­ants of West In­dies crick­et, Sir Andy Roberts and Deryck Mur­ray, have ex­pressed heart­felt thanks to the peo­ple and gov­ern­ment of St Vin­cent and the Grenadines af­ter be­ing ho­n­oured dur­ing the is­land’s Eman­ci­pa­tion Crick­et Fes­ti­val.

T&T’s ju­nior foot­ballers will clash with re­gion­al ri­val Ja­maica in the semi­fi­nals of the Con­ca­caf Un­der-15 Cham­pi­onships in Aru­ba at 4pm on Fri­day (Au­gust 8).

Na­tion­al long jump record hold­ers Tyra Git­tens-Spotsville and Kelsey Daniel have been named in a 13-mem­ber team to rep­re­sent T&T at the North Amer­i­can, Cen­tral Amer­i­can and Caribbean (NACAC) Area Track and Field Cham­pi­onships in Freeport, Grand Ba­hama, Ba­hamas, from Au­gust 15-17.

Mem­bers of T&T's 74-mem­ber con­tin­gent be­gan their de­par­ture to the Ju­nior Pan Amer­i­can Games set for Asun­cion, Paraguay, from Au­gust 9-23.

CAS­TRIES – Hosts Saint Lu­cia suc­cess­ful­ly de­fend­ed their team ti­tle at the 2025 OECS Box­ing Cham­pi­onship, which con­clud­ed over the week­end.