In­de­fati­ga­ble, in­domitable, un­sub­du­able. Three words that may be say­ing the same thing. But I have used them to make the point that they are char­ac­ter­is­tics that are need­ed–very much need­ed–to sur­vive, far less thrive, in this space we call Trinidad and To­ba­go.

Derek King’s ap­point­ment as se­nior na­tion­al foot­ball coach did not come as a sur­prise on Mon­day to the foot­ball com­mu­ni­ty.

A com­bi­na­tion of lack of funds, non-com­pli­ance or both is be­ing blamed for the heart of a na­tion be­ing bro­ken due to the in­abil­i­ty of the coun­try’s cy­cling team to par­tic­i­pate at the Ju­nior Pan Amer­i­can Cy­cling Cham­pi­onships.

Derek King has been ap­point­ed coach of the T&T se­nior men’s team on a full-time ba­sis. Mere months af­ter be­ing the in­ter­im re­place­ment for for­mer coach Dwight Yorke, who to part­ed ways with the T&T Foot­ball As­so­ci­a­tion fol­low­ing a dis­as­trous World Cup qual­i­fy­ing cam­paign, the Tech­ni­cal Com­mit­tee fi­nal­ly made it of­fi­cial.

Mar­lins Aquat­ics’ Mare­na Mar­tinez made a suc­cess­ful de­fence of 5,000m women’s ti­tles when the Aquat­ics Sports As­so­ci­a­tion of Trinidad and To­ba­go (ASATT) Sub­way Mara­cas Open Wa­ter Clas­sic took place at Mara­cas Bay, North Coast on Sun­day.

T&T swim­mer Liam Car­ring­ton won his first ma­jor se­nior in­di­vid­ual com­pet­i­tive medal when he got bronze in the men’s 100 back­stroke A-Fi­nal on the fi­nal night of the 2026 Speedo Fort Laud­erdale Open in the USA, for­mer­ly a stop on USA Swim­ming’s Pro Swim Se­ries on Sat­ur­day night.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.