ago.11.2010
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This Saturday, 14 August 2010, some 3,600 talented young athletes between the ages of 14 and 18 from around the world will be eagerly awaiting the start of the opening ceremony of the first ever edition of the Youth Olympic Games. All of them will have travelled to Singapore to participate in a high-level sporting competition which mirrors the Olympic Games sports programme.
The world of athletics witnessed a highly unusual sight here tonight - that of Usain Bolt leaving the track as a non-winner.
Two years after his last defeat - also on this track - the world and Olympic champion had to give best to the man who has got closest to his world records, Tyson Gay.
After putting pressure on the lanky Jamaican with a characteristically swift start, the American was never headed in the 100 metres in DN Galan Samsung Diamond League here, and Bolt, grimacing with the effort, was not able to make his habitual 70m surge, finishing instead in 9.97sec, the second slowest time he has ever registered in a final.
Gay won in 9.84.
It was a meeting record, earning him an automatic prize of a $10,000 (£6,200) diamond.
But it is the precious victory he will prize above all else.
Aug.06.2010
The Trinidad and Tobago Olympic Committee (TTOC) in collaboration with the Diabetes Association of Trinidad and Tobago (DATT) and the Trinidad and Tobago Golf Association (TTGA), will host a Starting New At Golf (SNAG) - Golf for All camp at Millennium Lakes Golf and Country Club in Trincity.
The camp will begin tomorrow and will be held over four Saturdays; August 7th, 14th, 21st, and 28th. It will cater for children between the ages of seven (7) and fourteen (14) years old. Attendance is free. Start time each day is 10 am.
The camp will also feature diabetes testing for both parents and children on the opening and closing days. There will also be special guest appearances by sport personalities.
According to TTOC President, Michael Romany, the Golf Camp is part of the TTOC Legacy Program. “Golf’s addition to the Olympic Program from 2016, is an opportunity for the Golf fraternity. The TTOC is delighted to undertake this initiative with both the Diabetes and Golf Associations” said Romany.
The objective is to introduce the SNAG- Golf for All program in primary schools in East Trinidad from September 2010.
Feb.22.2010
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Feb.23.2010
BATON TOUR: Shera, a Royal Bengal Tiger and mascot for the 2010 Commonwealth Games to be held in New Delhi, India, holds the baton for the Games during its stop in Trinidad and Tobago at yesterday's media briefing at the Indian High Commission, Victoria Avenue, Port of Spain. The technologically impressive baton was specially-crafted and is equipped with camera, audio recorder, LED lights that can be changed to suit the flag of the country it is in, and can even receive SMS messages. The baton will tour Trinidad today, starting with Point Fortin, and Tobago tomorrow, where it will visit Scarborough and Bon Accord Primary School among other places.
Trinidad and Tobago is the latest stop for the baton of the 19th Commonwealth Games, which takes place in New Delhi, India from October 3-14.
T&T are one of the 71 countries the baton will visit in its 240-day trek among Commonwealth states, before landing in India in July, where it will travel for the final 100 days before the Games run off.
Team T&T will comprise around 150 members, T&T Olympic Committee (T&TOC) and T&T Commonwealth Association (T&TCGA) president Larry Romany revealed yesterday.
These include T&T’s men’s and women’s hockey teams, the national volleyball women and, for the first time, an archery team.
T&T Hockey Board public relations officer Annette Knott will be chef de mission for the 2010 Games.
’We expect to put forward a very good performance when we get to Delhi,’ Romany said yesterday during the press briefing for the event at the Indian High Commission on Victoria Avenue, Port of Spain.
In keeping with India’s renowned thrust towards technology, the baton is an impressive object.
It is a ’much more elaborate contraption’ than the last one, according to John Hoskins, vice-president of the Commonwealth Games Federation.
That would be an accurate description for a device that includes video camera, audio recorder, LED lighting systems which can be changed to suit colours of the flag of the country it is in, and it can also receive SMS text messages.
The 1.9 kg, 66.4 centimetre baton also includes GPS.
The baton also contains Indian soil, laminated onto the shaft. This represents the ’soul of India,’ said Indian High Commissioner Malay Mishra.
The High Commissioner assured that all facilities and other areas of the Games will be ready for the October 3 start, despite earlier concerns over some previously ’behind schedule’ programmes.
The baton will tour Trinidad today, starting at Point Fortin, where the T&TCGA have a youth programme, and will also travel to Port of Spain.
Tomorrow it will make the trip to Tobago, for a visit to the Bon Accord Primary School, before touring Scarborough and other parts of the sister isle.
The baton will leave T&T on Thursday and move up the Caribbean on its trip around the Commonwealth.
Feb.23.2010
Olympic swimming legend Michael Phelps today became the first official Ambassador of the Youth Olympic Games (YOG).
The 16-time Olympic medallist, who is visiting Vancouver to catch some of the Olympic Winter Games action, will support the Youth Olympic Games by encouraging the involvement of young people around the world.
Michael Phelps said “The Youth Olympic Games is an excellent initiative, not only for the athletes competing, but also those who are inspired to get into sport and be more active. I am delighted that I have been given the opportunity to become the first official Ambassador of the Youth Olympic Games, and can’t wait to get working with the YOG team to promote the first event this summer!”
IOC President Jacques Rogge said “We are delighted that Michael is supporting our efforts to launch the Youth Olympic Games. Preparations for the inaugural edition in Singapore are on track, and the IOC is looking forward to welcoming 3,600 athletes to Singapore this summer!”
The first-ever Youth Olympic Games will be held this summer in Singapore. The mission of the YOG is to inspire young people around the world to participate in sport and adopt and live by the Olympic values.
Feb.23.2010
The President of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago Professor George Maxwell Richards TC, CMT, Ph.D received the Queen’s Baton and Commonwealth Games Delhi 2010 representatives yesterday at President's House.
Also present were Michael Romany ,president, the Trinidad and Tobago Commonwealth Games Association Mr. Michael Romany, Brian Lewis, Secretary General, Mr. Alexander Chapman, Honorary Life Vice President, Commonwealth Games Federation, Mr. Malay Mishra, High Commissioner of India, Mr. R. Shanker Second Secretary (C&I) High
Commission of India and Mrs. Annette Knott, Chef de Mission, Commonwealth Games Delhi 2010 and Lt. Gen. Raj Kadyan , Head of the Delhi 2010 delegation for the Queen’s Baton Relay.
His Excellency expressed his support for the values and objectives of the Commonwealth Games and wished the Delhi 2010 representatives success with the hosting of the upcoming games. He also extended his support for the Baton Relay and expressed his confidence that the Queen's Baton Relay will be well received in T&T.
Feb.24.2010
Trinidad and Tobago’s Olympic chief Larry Romany has great expectations for the country in track and field, cycling and swimming at the October 3-14 Commonwealth Games in New Delhi, India.
Romany was among the Olympic Committee (T&TOC) officials who attended yesterday’s cultural show at Lord Harris Square, in Port of Spain, staged to mark the T&T leg of the Queen’s Baton Relay.
The baton contains Queen Elizabeth II’s message to the athletes, which will be removed and read at the October 3 opening ceremony. The relay, which started on October 29 last year, in England, is carrying the baton to all 71 Commonwealth nations. T&T is the 31st stop.
In June, the baton arrives in the 71st nation, India. It will be carried throughout the 2010 Commonwealth Games host country for 100 days, the journey culminating at the opening ceremony, at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium, in New Delhi.
The entire Queen’s Baton Relay will cover more than 190,000 kilometres in 340 days.
Prior to yesterday’s cultural show, the baton was carried to the stage by 2006 Commonwealth Games men’s 50 metres pistol bronze medallist Roger Daniel.
He was accompanied by recently retired hammer thrower Candice Scott, handicapped runner Dwight Yearwood and rugby standout Jenilee Limada.
Both Romany, who is also president of the T&T Commonwealth Games Association (T&TCGA), and Indian High Commissioner to T&T, Malay Mishra, urged Minister of Sport and Youth Affairs Gary Hunt to attend the 2010 Commonwealth Games.
T&T Olympic Academy Youth Campers featured prominently in yesterday’s cultural show.
The baton will be in Tobago today.
