T&T Hock­ey Board (TTHB) mem­bers, Reyah Richard­son and Ayan­na Mc Clean have been ap­point­ed to their sec­ond straight Olympic Games.

Fol­low­ing on the heels of their par­tic­i­pa­tion at the de­layed Tokyo 2020 Olympics in 2021, both Richard­son, the TTHB Sec­re­tary, and Mc Clean, were con­firmed by the In­ter­na­tion­al Hock­ey Fed­er­a­tion (FIH) among the list of tech­ni­cal del­e­gates, tech­ni­cal of­fi­cials, um­pire man­agers, um­pires and med­ical of­fi­cers who have ap­point­ed to the Olympic Games Paris 2024.

The se­lec­tions were made by the FIH Tech­ni­cal Of­fi­cials and Um­pir­ing Com­mit­tees, chaired by Sheila Brown of South Africa, and Roger St Rose, pres­i­dent of the TTHB.

Just as in the pre­vi­ous Olympic Games, Richard­son has been ap­point­ed as one of 14 Tech­ni­cal Of­fi­cials while Mc Clean, who of­fi­ci­at­ed at the 2018 Com­mon­wealth Games fi­nal in Gold Coast Aus­tralia and has of­fi­ci­at­ed in the FIH World League over the past two sea­sons was named as one of the 28 um­pires.

At pre­vi­ous Olympic Games, T&T has been rep­re­sent­ed by Willard Har­ris (Tour­na­ment Of­fi­cial) and St Rose (Um­pire).

In a re­lease from the FIH it was stat­ed that in con­tin­u­ing hock­ey’s dri­ve to­wards main­tain­ing gen­der equal­i­ty in the sport, there will again be a 50-50 split of the of­fi­cials at the Games across Um­pires and Tech­ni­cal Of­fi­cials.

This is a key tar­get for the In­ter­na­tion­al Olympic Com­mit­tee (IOC) which aims to achieve this across all sports at the Olympic Games Paris 2024.

Speak­ing on the an­nounce­ment of of­fi­cials for the Olympic Games Paris 2024, FIH pres­i­dent Tayyab Ikram said: “Of­fi­cials play a fun­da­men­tal role and give a very sub­stan­tial part of their free time to their pas­sion for the sport! This is re­mark­able and I’d like to thank each and every hock­ey of­fi­cial, any­where in the world. To all those who’ve been se­lect­ed for the Olympic Games in Paris next year: huge con­grat­u­la­tions! This is a fan­tas­tic achieve­ment. On be­half of FIH, I want to as­sure you of our full con­fi­dence, sup­port, and re­spect. And I’m par­tic­u­lar­ly pleased that the split of all of­fi­cials across both gen­ders will be an ex­act 50-50, in line with the over­ar­ch­ing gen­der equal­i­ty prin­ci­ple which pre­vails in our sport.”

In­tro­duced at the Olympic Games Lon­don 1908, hock­ey at the Olympic Games Paris 2024 will mark its 25th ap­pear­ance in the qua­dren­ni­al sport­ing event.

Both men’s and women’s events at the Olympic Games will in­volve 12 of the world’s best hock­ey na­tions.