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Bronze for Tobago’s Josanne Lucas
GOLD: Melaine Walker (Jamaica) 52.42
SILVER: Lashinda Demus (USA) 52.96
BRONZE: Josanne Lucas (Trinidad & Tobago) 53.20
Continue reading Berlin 2009: Women 400m Hurdles Final
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10 Mins Video Clip: Usain Bolt New 200m World Record 19.19
Usain Bolt breaks 200m world record in time of 19.19sec in Berlin
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Usain Bolt sets a new World Record in an amazing time of 9,58 at the World Championship in Berlin, Germany. Beating Tyson Gay (2nd) and Asafa Powell (3rd).
Continue reading Berlin 2009: Usain Bolt’s 100m WR 9.58
By Raffique Shah
Sunday, March 8th 2009
AFTER you overcome the initial shock you feel angry, very angry. Then a feeling of sadness overwhelms you, followed by stark reality that the sports you so enjoy, the sportsmen and women who give you such pleasure, who are seen as symbols of sanity amidst a sea of madness, are being destroyed before your eyes. Those are but a few of the emotions that ran through my mind as I watched the carnage that erupted in Lahore last week.
Continue reading Playfield become battlegrounds
By Stephen Kangal
February 18, 2009
Those tired-looking and lethargic T&T Soca Stars played as if they were in the twilight zone of their career in San Salvador. They were a disorganized and uncoordinated outfit, lacking- in- both team spirit and fight bunch of footballers as if belonging to the Eddie Hart League. Mind you they had just returned from an expensive exposure to best soccer training facilities in Argentina at enormous expense to the tax-payers of this country.
Continue reading Soca Warriors Caused Me a Nightmare
Jizelle Salandy’s Send-Off
TriniView.com Reporters
Event Date: January 07, 2009
Posted: January 10, 2009
Hundreds of people turned up at the St. Benedict’s Roman Catholic Church in La Romaine to remember and bid farewell to the World Boxing Champion Jizelle Salandy. They came in buses, maxis and cars from all over Trinidad to pay their last respects. Many persons in attendance admitted that they did not know Jizelle personally but her life inspired them in some way.
Continue reading Remembering Jizelle Salandy (Giselle Salandy)
TrinidadandTobagoNews.com Reporters
January 04, 2009
Undefeated Trinidad and Tobago boxing champion, Giselle Salandy, died following a vehicular accident on the Beetham Highway, on the outskirts of Port of Spain, this morning, January 4th 2009. The 21 year old boxing sensation succumbed to her injuries at the Port of Spain General Hospital around 8.29 a.m. Reports state that Salandy was driving west into Port of Spain a little before 7 a.m. when she crashed into a concrete pillar upon reaching the National Petroleum (N.P.) overpass just before the Bhagwansingh turnoff. Miss Salandy and other occupant of the Toyota Yaris, national female footballer Tamar Watson were injured and both were rushed to hospital. Most recent reports indicate that Watson suffered two broken legs and is in a critical condition.
Continue reading Boxing champion Giselle Salandy is dead
By Liselle Maraj
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Six of the nation’s top athletes yesterday received the Chaconia Gold National Award for their outstanding achievement at the XXIX Summer Olympics held in Beijing, China last month.
Continue reading TT Olympians get their Chaconia Gold, $$
By Dr. Selwyn R. Cudjoe
September 04, 2008
On Tuesday evening, thanks to the generosity of Jack Warner, I attended a soccer game between Joe Public FC and New England Revolution at the Gillette Stadium, Foxboro, Massachusetts, as each team battled to advance to the group stage of the CONCACAF Champions League. Joe Public defeated New England 4-0 in the sweetest Trinbagonian style thereby becoming the first Caribbean team to knock out a US team.
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August 16, 2008: Usain Bolt wins the 100m Final in Beijing and sets a new 9.69 world record
Lightning-fast Bolt wins Olympic 100m
BEIJING – Track and field needs a new hero. It got one Saturday night who can fly. In the most outrageous display of speed to ever burn across the Olympic Games, Usain Bolt of Jamaica rocketed to gold in winning the men’s 100m dash in 9.69 seconds — not only a new world record but the first time in the history of human beings a man has run the distance under 9.7 seconds without a significant tailwind.
Continue reading Usain Bolt wins the 100m and 200m Finals
