The na­tion­al ju­nior cy­cling team sprint trio of Kafele De Sormeaux, Cris­t­ian Nel­son, and Zion Lu­cas’ hopes of de­fend­ing T&T’s team sprint ti­tle at the Ju­nior Pan Amer­i­can Cham­pi­onships in Xala­pa, Ve­r­acruz, Mex­i­co, end­ed be­fore they even set foot abroad af­ter the re­quest for fund­ing by the T&T Cy­cling Fed­er­a­tion to the Sport Com­pa­ny of T&T (SPORTT) was turned down.

On April 26, 2026, when Kenya's Sabas­t­ian Sawe crossed the fin­ish line of the Lon­don Marathon in 1:59:30, he did not just win a race; he shat­tered a cen­tu­ry-old psy­cho­log­i­cal and phys­i­o­log­i­cal lim­it. For the first time in his­to­ry, a hu­man had run the of­fi­cial 26.2-mile dis­tance in un­der two hours un­der com­pet­i­tive, record-el­i­gi­ble con­di­tions. Ethiopia’s Tigst As­se­fa blazed her own trail in­to the his­to­ry books. As­se­fa suc­cess­ful­ly de­fend­ed her ti­tle by clock­ing 2:15:41, a new women-on­ly world record that an­chored a his­toric day where the lim­its of both gen­ders were fun­da­men­tal­ly rewrit­ten on the same stretch of pave­ment.

Pre­sen­ta­tion Col­lege San Fer­nan­do etched their name once again in­to the sec­ondary schools crick­et his­to­ry, edg­ing out Pre­sen­ta­tion Col­lege Ch­agua­nas by nine runs in a tense In­ter­col fi­nal at the Bri­an Lara Crick­et Acad­e­my in Tarou­ba, San Fer­nan­do, on Fri­day night.

T&T swim­mer Dy­lan Carter of Azu­ra Flori­da Aquat­ics club se­cured a bronze medal in the men’s 50m but­ter­fly event when the 2026 Speedo Fort Laud­erdale Open in the USA, for­mer­ly a stop on USA Swim­ming’s Pro Swim Se­ries, con­tin­ued at the Fort Laud­erdale Aquat­ic Cen­ter on Fri­day night.

Last week at the TTFA Tech­ni­cal Cen­tre, we host­ed a FI­FA Am­a­teur Foot­ball Stake­hold­ers Fo­rum. It was one of those rooms where you could feel some­thing try­ing to move: coach­es, ad­min­is­tra­tors, and peo­ple who care about the game, all in one space, lis­ten­ing, shar­ing, and ques­tion­ing.

Po­lice Sports Club demon­strat­ed clin­i­cal bat­ting and dis­ci­plined bowl­ing to se­cure an 8-wick­et vic­to­ry over Ale­scon Comets Sports Club in an en­thralling 50-over fi­nal in the Trinidad and To­ba­go Crick­et Board Pre­mier­ship Di­vi­sion II played at the Bri­an Lara Crick­et Acad­e­my in Tarou­ba, San Fer­nan­do on Sat­ur­day.

The Co­coyea Swim­ming Pool is ex­pect­ed to re­open by Sep­tem­ber, fol­low­ing de­lays that the Min­is­ter of Sport and Youth Af­fairs, Phillip Watts, says stem from mis­man­age­ment and ad­min­is­tra­tive set­backs un­der the pre­vi­ous gov­ern­ment.

Holy Name Con­vent clinched the Sec­ondary Schools In­ter­col girls’ ti­tle with a con­vinc­ing 42-run vic­to­ry over first-time fi­nal­ists St Au­gus­tine Girls’ High School at the Bri­an Lara Crick­et Acad­e­my in Tarou­ba, San Fer­nan­do on Fri­day.

The Re­pub­lic Bank Caribbean Pre­mier League (CPL) has of­fi­cial­ly launched the Play­er Ac­qui­si­tion and Draft rules for the 2026 sea­son, ush­er­ing in a fresh three-year con­tract cy­cle (2026-2028) that promis­es to re­shape the land­scape of Caribbean crick­et.

Kieron Ed­wards, pres­i­dent of the T&T Foot­ball As­so­ci­a­tion, says he is not at­tempt­ing to hold on to pow­er as head of lo­cal foot­ball.

"In a world filled with so much bad news, so much sad news, what a re­lief to find this glad news." (Ka­reen John­ston Tuck­er, Irish po­et)

ST JOHN’S, An­tigua – De­spite play­ing their best crick­et of the com­pe­ti­tion, the Lee­ward Is­lands Hur­ri­canes are in a strug­gle to avoid de­feat against the Trinidad and To­ba­go Red Force at the An­tigua Recre­ation Ground in An­tigua on Tues­day.