Paris Olympics 2024

Gooooooolllllllllllldddddddddddddd

In reply to culpepperboy

70 meters. the size of Culpepper Island

In reply to rudebway

Culpepper Island more valuable

In reply to Halliwell

I was just thinking about our young generation in TT,I asked myself,what do they want in life.I figured our boys and girls have no ambition,not one Bronze that is a bloody shame.

In reply to granite

T&T had a wonderful set of 400m guys not long ago.
Seems like Track and Field folks have to get a whip out on officials/leaders
and get Athletics back on track...
Jamaica has been losing a bit too with the boys and the 400m especially.
But I know they will regroup as a lot of shamefaced people want
to correct this thing.

The Record run by Richards in today's classic 400m should be an inspiration to
others. I hope it does.

Don't be so hard on them bro, Richard's just duh a ting deh. Contribute in some way to grassroots development as Hubert suggests

In reply to granite

richards did excellent. first Trinidadian to ever run under 44 seconds in a 400m. can't ask for more than that....that too from lane 8. That was the best run i ever saw from a Trinidadian quartermiler, yes even better than cedenio in Rio trying to keep up with a world record run taking place right before him. richards is really a 200m runner. but the competition in the 200m right now is unbelievable and with a possible doper in the mix(oxtail man), he probably thought the 400m was his best option

In reply to Jumpstart

Who’s oxtail man?

Always liked Jereem. Even when he was focused on the 200 and would then run in the 4x4, his leg was always great.

In reply to Da-Vincy

There’s an American athlete named Eriyon Knighton who tested positive for a banned substance. USADA said the test was inadvertent because he told them that he consumed a bowl of oxtail which also is a source of the banned substance. WADA is of the view that USADA did not conduct a proper investigation and is threatening to decertify them.

Remember when we thought Sergey Bubka pole vault record was unbreakable, this kid going over 20 feet like he taking a piss!

In reply to camos

Have you watched the Peacock profile on Mando? Both his parents were studying in Louisiana when his dad built him a kiddy size pole vault set up in the backyard

In reply to Brerzerk

I have not seen it, know his dad was a US vaulter and his mom played volleyball.

In reply to Halliwell

In reply to Brerzerk

I’ve always wondered who in their right mind would want to attempt to pole vault. Maybe, like Mondo, they get “forced” as kids!

In reply to culpepperboy

Men's discus
Final
1) Roje Stona (Jca) 70.00 Gold
2) Mykolas Alekna (Lith) 69.97 Silver
3) Matt Denny (Aus) 69.31 Bronze

Congrats Stona!

Men's 400m
Final
1) Quincy Hall (US) 43.40 Gold
2) Matt Hudson-Smith (GB) 43.44 Silver
3) Muzala Samukonga (Zam) 43.74 Bronze
4) Jereem Richards (TT) 43.78
5) Kirani James (Gren) 43.87

Men's triple jump
Qualifying
6) Jayden Hibbert (Jca) 16.99
24) Jordan Scott (Jca) 16.36

Hibbert advanced to the final, but Scott did not.

110m hurdles
Semi One
1) Grant Holloway (US) 12.98
2) E Llopis (Spain) 13.17
3) Hansle Parchment (Jca) 13.19

Antoine Andrews (Bah) 13.43 did not advance

Semi Two
1) Rashid Broadbell (Jca) 13.21
2) Freddie Crittenden (US) 13.23

Semi Three
1) Orlando Bennett (Jca) 13.09
2) Daniel Roberts (US) 13.10

Men's 400m hurdles
Semi One
1) Karsten Warholm (Nor) 47.67
2) C Ducos (France) 47.85

7) Jaheel Hyde (Jca) 50.03 did not advance

Semi Two
1) Kyron McMaster (BVI) 48.15
2) Rasmus Magi (Est) 48.16

7) Malik James-King (Jca) 48.85 did not advance

Semi Three
1) Rai Benjamin (US) 47.85
2) Roshawn Clarke (Jca) 48.34

Men's 200m
Semi One
1) Kenny Bednarek (US) 20.00

5) W McCoy (Bah) 20.61 did not advance

7) Bryan Levell (Jca) 20.93 did not advance

Women's 400m
Semi One
1) Salwa Naser (Bahrain) 49.08
2) Rhasidat Adeleke (Ire) 49.95

Junelle Bromfield (Jca) 51.93 did not advance

Semi Two
1) Mari Paulino (DR) 49.21
2) Alexis Holmes (US) 50.00

4) Nickeisha Pryce (Jca) 50.77 did not advance

Semi Three
1) Natalya Kaczmarek (Pol) 49.45
2) Amber Anning (US) 49.47
3) Sada Williams (Bdos) 49.89

7) Stacey Ann Williams (Jca) 50.79 did not advance

Hard to imagine a 4 x 1 without di Yard.

Eat a food administrators.

In reply to mikesiva

Boy worse Olympics for Trinidad yes. One final for seventeen athletes sent.tbh this was coming. Most of you know that Trinidad’s national sport is apathy. Bovell saved us in 2004,getting the Caribbean’s first Olympic medal, We were again lucky with torpedo Thompson in 2008 and the 4x100m, and Tyson Gay’s injury. 2012 was actually a good year and was the culmination of six years of sport investment. We had to wait until the penultimate event of the Rio Olympics to get a medal from Keshorn( yes to all the haters, Keshorn Walcott has two Olympic medals,one gold,while some have absolutely none, including Peters who is a two time world champion). 2020 was a predictable disaster( although the 4x400m men were unlucky when Asa Guevara pulled up in the final. 2024 has also been a predictable disaster. I only expected Nicholas Paul and Jereem Richards to make a splash(Paul had a rough sprint but he also has the Kierin on Saturday which I think he’s better at) and Jereem became the first Trinidadian to run under 44 seconds in a 400m,phenomenal accomplishment. Can’t ask for more, especially from lane 8.

I have a feeling though that Los Angeles in 2028 will be a very good games for us

In reply to Jumpstart

In reply to Jumpstart

Yes, I think I saw Nicholas Paul go out to a Brit in the quarter-finals one of the cycling events this week....

Men's sprint relay
Heat Two
1) China 38.24

4) Jamaica 38.45 did not advance
Blake-Walker-Gordon-Thompson

Some shocking baton exchanges....

Women's sprint relay
Heat Two
1) Great Britain 42.03
2) France 42.13
3) Jamaica 42.35
Reid-Nelson-Forbes-Clayton

8 ) Trinidad and Tobago 43.99 did not advance
Lewis-Frederick-Frederick-Bertrand

Women's shot putt
Qualifying
13) Danielle Thomas-Dodd (Jca) 18.12 did not advance
14) Lloydricia Cameron (Jca) 18.02 did not advance
22) Portious Warren (TT) 17.22 did not advance

100m hurdles
Repechage
Heat Three
7) Denesha Cartwright (Bah) 13.45 did not advance

Men's 800m
Repechage
Heat One
6) Dennick Luke (Dom) 1:46.81 did not advance

Heat Two
4) Handal Roban (SVG) 1:45.80 did not advance
5) Navasky Anderson (Jca) 1:46.01 did not advance

T&T minding we business at the Paris Olympics

We not meddling at all

In reply to mikesiva

Man you deserve a hat tip for your work.

Good job.

In reply to mikesiva

Did Dos Santos advance?

In reply to imusic

And imagine government subsidizing this entire affair? Place is a bunch of jokers. Maybe if the IMF comes and sends our complacency and general extreme laziness to the Stone Age, we’ll understand that there is a real world that values performance and productivity, not just appearing and appearing early. The Public Servant attitude has done our country the world of harm. Because public servants are not used to being productive, you come in, you sign out you do very little or nothing the entire day and you are not paid on the completion of tasks or general productivity, that laziness has filtered down to ever sector of the society, with disastrous effects. To be honest I can’t wait to leave this place. I mean if misplaced priorities was a phrase in a dictionary, you’d find a map of TT right next to it. Trinidad is probably the only place in the world where you can go into an office, spend eight or so hours there…..doing nothing, either because you’re lazy or you were just hired to partake in the patronage of the state, ostensibly with electoral considerations in mind, and collect a salary at the end of the month

Jamaicans and Barbadians succeed and succeeded at athletics and cricket because they have/had pride in performance. They knew that their standard and status in life appreciated or depreciated based on productivity and performance. As a result, the most talented and the hardest working rose to the top and the inadequate were filtered out. We don’t seem to acknowledge that level of separation in Trinidad. In every sector of Trinidadian life we have become extremely unproductive. So cases in the judiciary take a million years to go to trial, and then witnesses go missing or they’re killed and you have murderers back on the street. Believe it or not, the TTPS is one of the hardest working sectors in the country, they are hamstrung by people’s reluctance to assist in investigations, the tardiness of the court( imagine Sean Luke’s convcted murderers, a case that shocked the country to its core, on the same way the Baboolal murders, Akiel Chambers and the 1990 coup traumatized the country)had their case thrown out and a retrial ordered because the judge made an error). I mean it’s ridiculous. The drought in the Olympics is a small symptom of a much larger malaise.

People think Jereem reaches finals because he’s talented. Jereem is the hardest worker in TT sports right now, that’s why he reaches to finals. I think it helps that he trains in the US as well, a place where extremely high standards are set and maintained. I mean the US has its issues like everywhere else but productivity is certainly not one of those issues. It’s a lesson Trinidadians don’t understand for the most part

It’s not incompetence. If anything Trinidadians are not incompetent which makes their behavior and attitude even worse

Seeing JA out of the 4x1 from the 1st round is like attending a friend's funeral. Hope a good team practice vaton change for Worlds. Not fair to a Kishane and a Seville to reach individual final and not have relay support

In reply to DukeStreet


YES!

Tebogo (Botswana) gets the 200m gold

Hope Lyles calm down a bit