Most of Trinidad and Tobago’s track & field contingent is now in the Games Village at Glasgow..

 

On Sunday night, Lalonde Gordon, Jarrin Solomon, Renny Quow, Keston Bledman and Cleopatra Borel joined their colleagues in the residences.. Early Monday morning), Janeil Bellile and Shawna Fermin entered the Village.

 

Two more athletes - young Machel Cedenio ,who is attending the IAAF World Juniors in Eugene, Oregon and Akeem Stewart, who will compete in both the Men's Shot Put and Discus ,have been called up for national duty. They will both join the team shortly.

 

For the first time, Trinidad and Tobago will be represented in all four sprint relays at the Commonwealth Games. Based on the success achieved at the recent IAAF World Relay Championships in Bahamas, much is expected of the relay teams.

 

In the Bahamas, both our 4X100m women  and the 4X400m men took bronze, while  our 4X100m men  earned silver. The  women's 4X400m team finished ninth overall. The medal won by the women's team is the first relay medal to be won by a  T&T women's team at the international level.

 

One major coincidence was that Trinidad and Tobago women's 4X100m clinched 3rd place by defeating Nigeria by 0.01 seconds, but in the women's 4X400m the tables were turned when the Nigerians denied our country of a spot in final by the same margin of 0.01 seconds

 

This morning most of the athletes were down at the Hampden Stadium going through their paces under the watchful eyes of the coaches and the medical team.  Track and field competition begins later this week in the various events

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Meanwhile, table-tennis representatives  Dexter St Louis and Rheann Chung arrived at the Games Village  having performed very creditably at the Pan-Am festival in Mexico.Dexter made it to the round of 16 . Rheann lost 3-4 in the semi final to secure bronze.

 

Table-tennis playing journalist Kwame Lawrence  arrived at Glasgow Monday morning, and was scheduled to practise with Yuvraj Dookram and Catherine Spicer later that afternoon. Lawrence’s unique style will help Spicer  adjust to several playing styles at the games.

 

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