T&T's stroll to the Win­ter Olympic Games in the sport of bob­sled is more than pos­i­tive.

The T&T's team of Ax­el Browne, who has dual cit­i­zen­ship, broth­ers Sha­keel and Shomari John from T&T, Thomas Har­ris (Great Britain/T&T), An­dre Mar­cano (T&T) and Lewis Pren­tice who is the lone staff mem­ber per­formed with cred­it at the North Amer­i­can Cup in Lake Placide, New York ear­li­er this week, fin­ish­ing 10th, eighth and ninth re­spec­tive­ly in three dif­fer­ent races on Mon­day, Tues­day and Wednes­day.

For their fin­ish, they gained 568 points which put them with­in the top 30 teams in the world. And on Fri­day, the team's pi­lot Brown said the best thing for them to do now will be to con­tin­ue their prepa­ra­tion ahead of the com­ing year.

"We had the last race two days ago, so we're now fin­ished for the first half of the sea­son and then af­ter Christ­mas, we might have a cou­ple of train­ing events. The North Amer­i­can Cup is the cir­cuit we're on, so we had eight races and those are the races we use to gain points for the Olympics. It is a cam­paign to raise as many points as we can and to be with­in the Olympic qual­i­fi­ca­tion brack­et.

"We had three races in three days back-to-back on Mon­day, Tues­day and Wednes­day. We got a 10th place and then an eighth place and then a ninth place, so we're very hap­py with that be­cause the track we were on was a very tech­ni­cal track.

"In Park City, we did slight­ly bet­ter in sixth and sev­enth po­si­tions, the 10th, eighth and ninth were pret­ty good for us con­sid­er­ing the con­di­tions."

The team now faces an un­pre­dictable fu­ture, not know­ing what can hap­pen in the Eu­ro­pean Cup which is set to con­tin­ue through Jan­u­ary and the com­ing World Cup. To date, they're sit­ting pret­ty, know­ing that there is no room for er­ror. How­ev­er, their con­cerns are well out of their hands, Brown ex­plained.

"We can on­ly com­pare across three of the eight races and that puts us in the top 30 in the world cur­rent­ly. So we have es­sen­tial­ly points in the bank against those oth­er two cir­cuits. We're in a very good po­si­tion, we can't say for cer­tain be­cause we don't know what peo­ple will do in those oth­er cir­cuits.

"The good news is that the re­sults we have so far are good enough, we don't have to do any sup­ple­men­tal races to add to our points tal­ly. So es­sen­tial­ly now what we can do is sit and wait to see what the oth­er na­tions do and try and pre­pare for the Olympics.

Though we're not cer­tain that we're go­ing, it makes the most ath­let­ic sense to use the next six weeks to pre­pare, so if we do qual­i­fy when we get there, we can do as best as we can."

The Win­ter Olympic Games are sched­uled to take place from Feb­ru­ary 4-20 in Bei­jing, Chi­na.