An El­ton John goal in the 75th minute as­sured that Club San­do FC re­tained sec­ond in Tier 1 of the T&T Pre­mier Foot­ball League on 30 points, with the end not far away.

When you think you are done, you can al­ways do one more. There is no prize at the end; there is on­ly fin­ish­ing. That’s when you dis­cov­er what tru­ly mo­ti­vates peo­ple—when the goal isn’t what you re­ceive, but what you con­tribute.

Pre­cious Son­ni­lal and Jer­an Bood­hoo reigned supreme at the week­end when the T&T Cy­cling Fed­er­a­tion held its first Moun­tain Bike Chal­lenge for the year at Teak Peaks Plai­sance Park in Point-A-Pierre on Sun­day (Jan­u­ary 18).

The pairs of Jes­si­ca Castagne-Hay/Skye La Fon (women) and Ely­on Cyrus/Joshua Burn­ley (men) se­cured the top spots in the T&T Vol­ley­ball Fed­er­a­tion (TTVF) Trin­ba­go Beach Vol­ley Tour Un­der-21 Di­vi­sion at Saith Park, Ch­agua­nas, on Sun­day (JAn­u­ary 18).

T&T se­nior women’s vol­ley­baller Des­tiny De Leon and her Aguas­calientes Gi­ants were beat­en in their first two match­es of the Pro­fes­sion­al Vol­ley­ball League (LVP MX) at the Po­lifórum De­porti­vo y Cul­tur­al More­los in Mex­i­co.

Na­tion­al swim­mer Zuri Fer­gu­son se­cured in­di­vid­ual sil­ver and bronze medals to help the Uni­ver­si­ty of Flori­da ‘Gators’ to a 179-119 win over host Auburn Uni­ver­si­ty at the James E Mar­tin Aquat­ics Cen­ter in Auburn, Al­aba­ma, on Fri­day (Jan­u­ary 16).

KINGSTOWN, St Vin­cent – Trinidad and To­ba­go Women bol­stered their chances of mak­ing the T20 Blaze fi­nal by dom­i­nat­ing de­fend­ing cham­pi­ons Guyana Women by eight wick­ets in a cru­cial con­test Mon­day (Jan­u­ary 19).

DUBAI, UAE– With the ICC T20 World Cup loom­ing on the hori­zon, the West In­dies launch their fi­nal prepara­to­ry se­ries against a dan­ger­ous Afghanistan side in Dubai Sun­day, aim­ing to so­lid­i­fy com­bi­na­tions and fi­nalise their squad for the glob­al show­piece.

As the count­down be­gins for the Con­ca­caf Un­der-17 Women’s Qual­i­fiers in Cu­ra­cao, head coach Ayana Rus­sell has of­fi­cial­ly named her fi­nal squad on Sun­day (Jan­u­ary 18), sig­nalling a new chap­ter for the na­tion­al pro­gramme.

A vir­tu­al meet­ing of the T&T Cy­cling Fed­er­a­tion (TTCF) Rac­ing Com­mit­tee tonight will de­ter­mine the team rep­re­sent­ing T&T at the Pan Amer­i­can Track Cy­cling Cham­pi­onships in San­ti­a­go, Chile, from Feb­ru­ary 16-22.

Us­ing sport as a tool to ad­dress at-risk youth is not about find­ing the next Dwight Yorke, Bri­an Lara, Anisa Mo­hammed, Keshorn Wal­cott, De­bra O’Con­nor, George Bovell, Jizelle Sa­landy, Akeem Stew­art, to name a few.

KINGSTOWN – A com­posed, un­beat­en half-cen­tu­ry from She­maine Camp­belle guid­ed Guyana Women to a four-wick­et vic­to­ry over Ja­maica Women in the ninth match of the T20 Blaze in St Vin­cent at the Arnos Vale Play­ing Field on Sat­ur­day (Jan­u­ary 17).