T&T's two-man bob­sleigh team of Ax­el Brown and An­dre Mar­cano now have a fair idea of what to ex­pect next week when the 2022 Bei­jing Win­ter Games con­tin­ue with their event on Thurs­day.

The duo con­test­ed heat one and two of the open­ing train­ing event at the Yan­qing Na­tion­al Slid­ing Cen­tre and pro­duced a de­cent time of one minute, 02.52 sec­onds (1:02.52).

It was a de­cent fin­ish for the T&T duo, con­sid­er­ing the line-up of very ex­pe­ri­ence op­po­nents. They were sup­port­ed by Sha­keel John, the al­ter­nate and coach Thomas Har­ris dur­ing their run.

Yes­ter­day pres­i­dent of the T&T Olympic Com­mit­tee Bri­an Lewis said the en­er­gy in the T&T camp at the moun­tains where the slid­ing start­ed tak­ing place is very good.

"There were chal­lenges and there would al­ways be chal­lenges at this lev­el and I have to give cred­it to the team. The ath­letes- Ax­el Brown, An­dre Mar­cano, Shakir John, the coach Thomas Har­ris, the Chef de Mis­sion Lovie San­tana and the COVID Li­ai­son of­fi­cer Rheeza Grant, you know they are work­ing as a team to over­come ob­sta­cles and chal­lenges and in any sit­u­a­tion such as the Win­ter Olympic Games, T&T hasn't been there in 20 years and the ef­fort for the team to qual­i­fy was a very short one, so there will be chal­lenges that need to be over­come but the en­er­gy is good and they're pulling it to­geth­er."

Brown in an ear­li­er in­ter­view told Guardian Me­dia Sports he didn't want to make pre­dic­tions for the games but he and his team mem­bers were ea­ger to spin in­to ac­tion.

Lewis not­ed: " At the games most peo­ple wouldn't ex­pect to see T&T. They had the train­ing run yes­ter­day and again to­day and then there will be one on Sat­ur­day, so they're us­ing the train­ing runs to get a feel for the track and iden­ti­fy what their strat­e­gy is go­ing to be go­ing in­to the events on the 14th and 15th."