Lo­cal track and field ath­letes will get their sec­ond and fi­nal chance to book a spot on the na­tion­al team for the 2020 Tokyo Games in Japan at the sec­ond and fi­nal Olympic Tri­als host­ed by the Na­tion­al As­so­ci­a­tion of Ath­let­ics Ad­min­is­tra­tion of T&T (NAAATT) on Sun­day at the Hase­ly Craw­ford Sta­di­um in Mu­cu­rapo, Port-of-Spain.

No ath­lete met the au­to­mat­ic qual­i­fy­ing times in any of the three events - 100 me­tres, 200m and 400m - at the first Tri­al on Mon­day held at the same venue. This af­ter­noon, most of them from the ini­tial in­vi­ta­tion­al meet, who had their sea­son dis­rupt­ed by the on­go­ing coro­n­avirus (COVID-19) pan­dem­ic will re­turn to give it a go.

Abi­lene Wild­cats sprint trio of Jonathan Far­in­ha, his twin broth­er Nathan and Ay­o­dele Taffe, the top three fin­ish­ers in the men's 100m dash in the first Tri­al will again tack­le the 10.05-sec­ond qual­i­fy­ing stan­dard.

Jonathan crossed first in sec­tion two of the timed fi­nals with a wind-as­sist­ed 10.39 (1.8), to be the over­all win­ner fol­lowed by Nathan in sec­ond place with 10.56 while Taffe, win­ner of sec­tion one, was in third place with 10.61 (2.2).

How­ev­er, to­day they will all line up in sec­tion two against Omari Lewis (10.63), Devin Au­gus­tine (10.72) of Point Fortin New Jets (PFNJ), Sim­plex's Khaliyq Ab­dul­lah (10.89), Con­corde's Sha­keel John (10.93) and PFNJ's Cyrus Charles, sec­ond to Taffe in sec­tion one with 11.00, who filled the oth­er five spots, over­all.

Sim­plex pair Leah Bertrand and Ka­maria Du­rant and Shani­qua Bas­combe of Cougars will re­new their ri­val­ry in the women's 100m with greater ef­fort to meet the qual­i­fy­ing time of 11.15.

Bertrand and Ka­maria Du­rant crossed first and sec­ond with times of 11.52 and 11.90, re­spec­tive­ly while the reign­ing Youth Sports­woman of the Year—Bas­combe was third with 11.97 on their first try.

The Sim­plex duo will al­so race in the 200m again, fac­ing down the 22.80-stan­dard af­ter Du­rant clocked 24.45 to edge out Bertrand (24.51) at the line in the half-lap event. Wild­cats’ Khadi­ja Pick­er­ing, who had to set­tle for third place in 25.57, will be back al­so.

Sha­keem McK­ay, win­ner of the men's ver­sion of the race on Mon­day in 21.33, will again face the starter. Back to chal­lenge him will be sec­ond-placed Stal­lions Xaver­ri Williams (22.06) and Mount­ing Ea­gles Eli­jah Joseph (22.11) with all aim­ing at the 20.24 Olympic stan­dard.

In the 400m event, men’s win­ner Kird­ell Mc In­tosh (Un­at­tached) with a 49.12-clock­ing will again chal­lenge the 44.90-stan­dard and al­so the women's first-place fin­ish­er Caliyah Wal­lace of Cougars (59.95), try­ing to meet the 51.35-stan­dard.

The na­tion­al track and field team will be named this week for the Tokyo Olympics, which will run from Ju­ly 23 to Au­gust 8.