Sprint­ers Kai Selvon and Jonathan Far­in­ha and field ath­lete Por­tious War­ren were yes­ter­day con­firmed as the lat­est ad­di­tions to the T&T team for the Tokyo Olympic Games in Japan from Ju­ly 23 to Au­gust 8.

The in­clu­sion of the three ath­letes to the del­e­ga­tion in­creas­es the to­tal to 33 ath­letes and the biggest ever lo­cal squad to rep­re­sent the coun­try at an Olympic Games.

T&T Olympic Com­mit­tee (TTOC) pres­i­dent Bri­an Lewis made the an­nounce­ment on Tues­day at a Zoom-host­ed me­dia con­fer­ence that was al­so at­tend­ed by oth­er mem­bers of the TTOC ex­ec­u­tive com­mit­tee.

War­ren will com­pete in the women's shot put.

Yes­ter­day in a Face­book post she shared the news and her ap­pre­ci­a­tion to her sup­port sys­tem.

She said, "I just want to take this time to thank every­one that has played an in­stru­men­tal part in my jour­ney and every­thing that I have achieved so far (you know your­selves).

"They say a dream is a wish the heart makes while you are asleep. I have al­ways dreamed of be­ing an Olympian. While I feel like my heart still mak­ing wish­es. I’m so hap­py I get to see this wish come through with my eyes wide open. Not on­ly that but my heart be­ing pre­pared to fight till the end."

War­ren went on to thank her coach­es say­ing: "Be­cause I’m an Olympian.

Thank you coach Derek Yush for al­ways be­liev­ing in me and thank Raven 'Hulk' Saun­ders was on the verge of walk­ing away from the sport and you re­mind­ed me that I’m way stronger and tal­ent­ed thank I think.

"And to the oth­er coach­es along my jour­ney that helped me get here Is­mael Mas­tra­pa , Ker­ron Browne Tony Dougher­ty and JM Thomas thank you. And a spe­cial thank you to John An­dal­cio for al­ways guid­ing me in the right di­rec­tion."

Far­in­ha and Selvon have been added to the re­spec­tive men's and women's 4 x 100 m re­lay squads.

Lewis ad­vised that Jereem Richards has al­ready qual­i­fied in the men's 200m race and will be added to the men's 4 x 400m re­lay ros­ter.

This all comes af­ter a late re­quest for amend­ment of the team was made by the act­ing pres­i­dent George Com­mis­siong of the Na­tion­al As­so­ci­a­tion of Ath­let­ic Ad­min­is­tra­tors of T&T (NAAATT).

Lewis said de­spite the ad­min­is­tra­tive dilem­ma ex­pe­ri­enced by the NAAATT, the TTOC had con­sult­ed with their le­gal ad­vi­sor Dave Williams and opt­ed to not al­low the ath­letes to pay the price for the ad­min­is­tra­tive is­sues on the lo­cal as­so­ci­a­tion's part.

Sup­port­ed by the TTOC ex­ec­u­tive, Lewis added the three ath­letes to the squad.

The ath­lete del­e­ga­tion, the TeamT­TO Tokyo2020 squad beat the pre­vi­ous best of 32

ath­letes (21 men, 11 women) at the 2016 Rio Games.

The cur­rent team - that will fly out to the Ju­ly 23 to Au­gust 8 Tokyo2020 Games - com­pris­es 33

(20 men, 13 women).

The num­ber of women's ath­letes is al­so a new record for TTO fe­male rep­re­sen­ta­tion at a qua­dren­ni­al Games, beat­ing back the 12 women who donned the red, white and black at the 2008 Bei­jing Games.

The squad will al­so in­clude 18 ath­letes mak­ing their Olympic de­but, in­clud­ing debu­tants long jumpers Tyra Git­tens and And­wuelle Wright, shot put­ter Por­tious War­ren, sprint­ers Ay­la Stanis­claus, Jonathan Far­in­ha, Dwight St Hillaire, Asa Gue­vara, Che Lara, Kion Ben­jamin, Adell

Colthrust, Er­ic Har­ri­son, and Akan­ni His­lop. Box­er Aaron Prince, road cy­clist Te­niel Camp­bell, track cy­clists Kwe­si Brown and Nicholas Paul, swim­mer Cherelle Thomp­son, and ju­do­ka Gabriel­la Wood.

Five ath­letes are mak­ing their sec­ond ap­pear­ance at an Olympic Games. Among them are

row­er Fe­lice Aisha Chow, sprint­ers Kyle Greaux, Richards and Khal­i­fa St Fort and swim­mer Dy­lan Carter.

At­tain­ing a hat­trick of Olympic qual­i­fi­ca­tions are sprint­ers Michelle- Lee Ahye, Kai Selvon, sailor

An­drew Lewis, one-lap spe­cial­ists Machel Ce­de­nio and De­on Lendore, javelin throw­er Keshorn

Wal­cott and hur­dler Sparkle McK­night.

2008 Olympic men's 100m sil­ver medal­list and jour­ney­man Richard Thomp­son and sprint­er Se­moy Hack­ett are mak­ing their fourth trip to the Olympics while vet­er­an Kel­ly-Ann Bap­tiste will join leg­endary swim­mer George Bovell III as the most capped TTO ath­lete with her fifth Olympic ap­pear­ance.

T&T Olympic Games Ath­let­ics Team

Track - Michelle-Lee Ahye (100m 4x100m re­lay), Kel­ly-Ann Bap­tiste (100m 4x100m), Se­moy Hack­ett (4x100m), Khal­i­fa St Fort (4x100m ), Ay­la Stanis­claus (4x100m), Kai Selvon (4x100m), Sparkle McK­night (400m hur­dles), Kyle Greaux (200m), Jereem Richards (200m, 4x400m), Machel Ce­de­nio (400m, 4x400m), De­on Lendore (400m, 4x400m), Dwight St Hillaire (400m, 4x400m), Asa Gue­vara (4x400m re­lay), Che Lara (4x400m re­lay), Kion Ben­jamin (4x100m), Adell Colthrust (4x100m), Er­ic Har­ri­son (4x100m), Akan­ni His­lop (4x100m), Richard Thomp­son (4x100m), Jonathan Far­in­ha (4x100m).

Field ath­letes - Keshorn Wal­cott (Javelin), And­wuelle Wright (Long jump), Tyra Git­tens (long jump), Por­tious War­ren (shot put)

Staff: George Comis­siong (team man­ag­er), Nic­Connor Alexan­der (coach), Dr Ian Hy­po­lite (coach), Charles Joseph (coach), Is­mael Lopez Mas­tra­pa (coach), Wen­dell Williams (coach)