T&T box­er Michael Alexan­der was still list­ed in crit­i­cal con­di­tion at the Port-of-Spain Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal on Thurs­day, fol­low­ing a ve­hic­u­lar ac­ci­dent on Wednes­day evening in Diego Mar­tin.

The 28-year-old Alexan­der was rid­ing his mo­tor­cy­cle when it col­lid­ed with a van at the cor­ner of Ci­ca­da Dri­ve, Riv­er Es­tate and North Coast Road.

Fol­low­ing the in­ci­dent, Alexan­der who won bronze at the 2014 Com­mon­wealth Games in Glas­gow, Scot­land was tak­en to the St James Med­ical Com­plex, West­ern Main Road, St James be­fore he was lat­er trans­ferred to the Port-of-Spain Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal.

Alexan­der al­so won bronze at the Pan Am Cham­pi­onships in 2013 in the men's light wel­ter­weight (64kg); the 2014 Cen­tral Amer­i­can and Caribbean (CAC) Games, and at the 2019 Pan Amer­i­can Games.

In ad­di­tion, he al­so has a sil­ver medal from the 2018 CAC Games and was a hope­ful for the T&T Olympic Games team lat­er this year.

Con­tact­ed for a com­ment, Ce­cil Forde, pres­i­dent of the T&T Box­ing As­so­ci­a­tion (TT­BA) not­ed that right now the fo­cus for all in­volved in the sport was send­ing well wish­es to Alexan­der and their hopes for a speedy re­cov­ery.

Forde said, “As far as I know, he is still in the In­ten­sive Care Unit (ICU) and may have suf­fered two bro­ken ribs and his left hand was bro­ken in two places, with pos­si­ble dam­age to his lungs as well.

"So right now, we can’t even be­gin to talk about box­ing and his fu­ture in the sport, we first have to hope for him to get back on the road to re­cov­ery as quick­ly as pos­si­ble and take things one step at a time.”

Bri­an Lewis, pres­i­dent of the T&T Olympic Com­mit­tee (TTOC) stat­ed that Alexan­der is cur­rent­ly in the tough­est fight of his life.

He said, "Alexan­der is one of our Olympic schol­ar­ship ath­letes and has done the coun­try proud at nu­mer­ous tour­na­ments and I know he will put up a strong bat­tle all the way.

"There’s no deny­ing the fact that he is a great box­er and he has shown him­self to be fear­less and coura­geous in the ring, and I ex­pect him to be that way as he fights for sur­vival as well.

"The most im­por­tant thing right now is for us to wish him well through prayer and hope that with the help of the doc­tors he will be able to make a full re­cov­ery."