...Announces new community promotion

TSTT’s bmobile yesterday officially announced its partnership as the official wireless sponsor of T&T’s Olympic Team including track athlete Jehue Gordon, cyclist Njisane Phillip and sailor Andrew Lewis. Bmobile also declared that it created a mobile partnership with the National Association for Athletics Administration’s (NAAA) National Championship which runs off at the Hasely Crawford Stadium today and tomorrow. The formal arrangement was revealed yesterday at the Telepresence Room, TSTT House, St Vincent Street, Port-of-Spain. Gordon was in attendance and Lewis made himself available through a video call from London, where he is currently in preparation for the Olympic Games. Phillip, however, was not available for the video call. He is currently competing in the United States. Top TSTT executives and T&T Olympic Committee (T&TOC) officials, including president Larry Romany, were also in attendance. Speaking on behalf of the sponsor, John Alvi, executive vice-president Enterprise Services at TSTT, boasted of his company’s initiative of providing the athletes with the technology required to excel at the international stage and keep in touch at home, especially during the Olympic Games.

TSTT signed off as the official mobile partner of the Beijing Olympic team back in 2008. Alvi insisted that the sponsorship would not only allow the athletes to dedicate themselves on a fulltime basis to their respective disciplines, but would also “strengthen the ability of the T&TOC to maintain open lines between T&T and our athletes in London.” The trio will have access to bmobile voice, data, text and BBM services while in England. Alvi reminded those present that Njisane would get his second taste of the Olympics, as four years previous, he was funded as a spectator by bmobile after participating in the Olympic Dash promotion. Alvi said bmobile was “extremely proud” to see Phillip’s development from then to his current form. Alvi expressed similar sentiments when referring to T&T’s first-ever representative in the laser class at the Olympics, Lewis, who Alvi knew as a young sailing optimist. “We are proud to see this young man who came to us with a dream of qualifying for the Olympics,” Alvi said. “But he spoke with such conviction and he put in the training but he also never forgot about paying it forward, by helping, for example, the young people in Vessigny experience the exhilaration of the sport.”

Lewis responded by thanking bmobile but said that his determination, hard work and his help for the children in Vessigny always came as a result for the love he felt for T&T. Alvi then continued: “Njisane has shown that same kind of commitment and love of country, so we felt his anxiety when it was reported how he felt about the support he needed from T&T. “We have seen him steadily climb from being a gold medallist in the junior PanAms through to winning gold in the senior PanAms, to now being the first T&T Olympic cyclist since 1996.” “His discipline and dedication are truly an example to all,” added Alvi. Alvi followed by applauding all other sponsors that got behind the three athletes for their commitment to national development. Also announced at the media briefing was the hosting of the 2012 Community Olympic Clash promotion which, according to bmobile, will give ordinary citizens the opportunity to win glory for their community. The promotion will be held on successive Sundays in Siparia (Irwin Park, July 8), Barrackpore (Barrackpore Recreation Ground, July 15) and Mason Hall, Tobago (July 22). Teams within the communities will go head to head in a series of challenges. “The aim is to recreate the excitement of the Olympics at the community level and in the process foster the Olympic ideals of Non-Discrimination, Sustainability, Humanism, Universality, Solidarity and the Alliance between sport, education and culture,” concluded Alvi.

Source: www.guardian.co.tt