Nyoshia Cain-Clax­ton proud­ly car­ried the na­tion­al flag dur­ing the open­ing cer­e­mo­ny of the Para­pan Amer­i­can Games at the Na­tion­al Sta­di­um in Pe­ru on Fri­day night and to­day, she will seek to have the Na­tion­al An­them play when she faces the starter in the women’s 100 me­tres T64 fi­nal.

“It was an ho­n­our to car­ry our na­tion­al flag and to be able to rep­re­sent the red, white and black,” Cain-Clax­ton, who is mak­ing her de­but at the event, told the Sun­day Guardian yes­ter­day.

“I am pret­ty ex­cit­ed ac­tu­al­ly, it’s my first Para­pan Amer­i­can Games.”

But Cain-Clax­ton will have to ad­just to quick­ly to the chilly con­di­tions in Li­ma, the host city, as she chas­es glo­ry.

Not­ing the se­vere weath­er con­di­tions, Cain-Clax­ton said, “The weath­er is ac­tu­al­ly good dur­ing the day but at night it’s re­al­ly cold. To­day (yes­ter­day) was one of the cold­est days we had since we came.”

The lo­cal ath­lete will seek gold when she lines up in the medal race at 6.18 pm (T&T time) at the Ath­let­ics Sta­di­um in the Na­tion­al Sport­ing Vil­lage.

Cain-Clax­ton has had much suc­cess at the in­ter­na­tion­al lev­el, win­ning bronze medals in the T44 100m at the 2015 IPC Ath­let­ics World Cham­pi­onships, 2016 Sum­mer Par­a­lympics and the 2017 World Para Ath­let­ics Cham­pi­onships.

On Wednes­day, she will line up in her sec­ond event - the 100m dash fi­nal at 6.01 pm.

Car­los Greene will al­so fea­ture this evening when he takes on nine oth­er com­peti­tors in the men’s dis­cus F11 fi­nal from 5.14 pm (T&T time).

Greene will be quite fa­mil­iar with the lev­el of com­pe­ti­tion he will face, hav­ing been com­pet­ing in the Par­a­lympics since 2008 but in an en­tire­ly dif­fer­ent sport, pow­er­lift­ing. He won the gold medal at the vi­su­al­ly-im­paired Pow­er­lift­ing World Cham­pi­onship that year.

He will be aim­ing for sim­i­lar suc­cess in the dis­cus F11 event as well as the shot put F11, which he com­petes in on Wednes­day start­ing at 5.43 pm.

T&T’s oth­er field ath­lete, Akeem Stew­art, will open ac­tion at the Games on Tues­day in the men’s dis­cus F64 from 5.17 pm and Wednes­day he will look to come good in the javelin F64 event.