His Excellency Garvin Nicholas, High Commissioner for the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago to Great Britain met with Michael Romany, The President of the Trinidad and Tobago Olympic Committee(TTOC) on Friday 14 January 2010 at the T&T High Commission .Belgrave square ,London
The two men held cordial and wide ranging talks about T&T's participation at the London 2012 Olympic Games.
The High Commissioner took the opportunity to raise a number of initiatives for promoting Trinidad and Tobago during the 2012 Olympic Games .Possible venues for a T&T House during the Olympics was also discussed.
The TTOC is confident that 2012 will be a historic and special year . Not only will T&T be celebrating its 50th year of Independence. In addition the national Olympic committee's objective is that T&T athletes will achieve unprecedented podium success in London.
"Ensuring that T&T sport,culture and tourism is well represented in London at the time of the games is an opportunity that the TTOC will not want the country to forgo. At previous Olympic games it has been a frustrating experience getting the required support from the relevant authorities and decision makers.2012 has exciting possibilities." said Romany.
Romany said he was very appreciative that the High Commissioner had expressed his enthusiasm for T&T's London 2012 participation.
" T&T made its Olympic debut at the 1948 London Olympics. Mr Rodney Wilkes won our first Olympic medal. The city of London has a special place in T&T's Olympic history.
The TTOC's pre games training camp will be based in Cardiff, Wales and it is expected that the local contingent will be in Wales for a month in some cases.