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Other Sports / Re: Boxing in TT cah ketch a break nah.
« on: April 09, 2013, 09:31:38 AM »
A play on the old Spoiler song no doubt.
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Other Sports / Re: Carifta swimming, water polo teams begin departure
« on: April 02, 2013, 06:58:44 AM »
Men taking notice now. And we not even having a good meet as far as times are concerned. They started drug testing at this meet and it is a work in progress with our older swimmers getting back to camp after midnight on some nights.
http://swimswam.com/dylan-carter-tt-dropping-records-at-carifta-championships/
http://swimswam.com/dylan-carter-tt-dropping-records-at-carifta-championships/
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Other Sports / Re: lil swimmers
« on: March 05, 2013, 08:45:18 PM »
Just returned from the meeting. Angel is officially on the Carifta Team. Congrats again Max.
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Other Sports / Re: lil swimmers
« on: February 26, 2013, 10:05:58 PM »
Take a bow yourself. Those swims by the boys are excellent. Emil is the real deal in that 200 fly. Looking really good. Due to his 2oo background, the 100 will continue to be great as well.
Really exciting stuff!
Of course, you and wifey have to still keep it tempered.
Really exciting stuff!
Of course, you and wifey have to still keep it tempered.
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Other Sports / Re: lil swimmers
« on: November 02, 2012, 06:48:23 AM »
Sounding good. Send me a job app!
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Other Sports / Re: Golden Bovell doubles up in Stockholm
« on: October 16, 2012, 07:02:12 AM »
Just to clarify, this is short course swimming, in a 25m pool. The times are expected to be faster than at the Olympics which is swum in a 50m pool. The comparison over 50 metres is sometimes as much as one second, depending on how much of the turn is utilized by a particular swimmer. George, who is not an underwater specialist does not typically benefit from the turns in a short course event, although, his times would still reflect a faster swim than his long course times.
All in all, still a great swim, as this would have put him on the podium in Dubai two years ago. The short course season ends with Worlds in Istanbul in December, so we may get a world class swimming medal yet this year.
BTW, the 100IM time was even more impressive. Remember, George was an IM swimmer first, before the injury. Turns out he can still do enough breastroke to train for the 100IM.
All in all, still a great swim, as this would have put him on the podium in Dubai two years ago. The short course season ends with Worlds in Istanbul in December, so we may get a world class swimming medal yet this year.
BTW, the 100IM time was even more impressive. Remember, George was an IM swimmer first, before the injury. Turns out he can still do enough breastroke to train for the 100IM.
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Entertainment & Culture Discussion / Re: Featuring Fitzroy Coleman - Jazz Guitarist, Trinidadian.
« on: October 04, 2012, 08:28:14 AM »
I believe he is on an internationally recognized list of the 100 greatest guitarists ever.
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Olympic Discussion / Re: London Olympics Men and Women's 4x100m and 4x400m Relay Thread!
« on: August 11, 2012, 01:50:45 PM »
Order on the website says Bledman leads, and Thompson anchors. Thank God!
Oh yeah.... Well F*c%in done Keshorn!!!! Lawd I happy!
Oh yeah.... Well F*c%in done Keshorn!!!! Lawd I happy!
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Olympic Discussion / Re: Thread for the London Olympics 2012: Fri.27th July to Sun.12th August!
« on: August 09, 2012, 06:19:38 AM »
Good work aviator. Lane assignments out for the 4 x 100 men tomorrow. We have a good lane (lane 4) and we are contending with the US France and a German team that has run 38.0 for the season.
http://www.london2012.com/athletics/event/men-4x100m-relay/phase=atm401900/index.html
http://www.london2012.com/athletics/event/men-4x100m-relay/phase=atm401900/index.html
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Olympic Discussion / Re: George Bovell: London 2012 Olympics Swimming competition schedule & results
« on: August 03, 2012, 01:49:33 PM »
Never had a chance once the start was bad. Troughout the rounds he was dying at the end, relative to those around him. Great job still. It ehn easy moving from 200IM to 50 free and then finalling at the Olympics in both of them 8 years apart! Legend!
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Olympic Discussion / Re: George Bovell: London 2012 Olympics Swimming competition schedule & results
« on: August 02, 2012, 03:52:35 AM »
George leads the way after the prelims with a 21.77. He is .03 ahead of Cielo, the favourite from Brazil. Semis at 2:30PM today TT time.
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Olympic Discussion / Re: George Bovell: London 2012 Olympics Swimming competition schedule & results
« on: July 29, 2012, 12:01:54 PM »
Solid swim, national record. Good signs for the 50 later. Onto the 100 free to get a better perspective. Incidentally, two Caribbean swimmers through to the semis this morning. Alia Atkinson of Jamaica in the women's 100 breast and Brett Fraser of the Cayman Islands in the 200 free.
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General Discussion / Re: Her Excellency Ambassador Baptiste Cornelis
« on: July 28, 2012, 03:58:47 PM »
Went to 8 minutes but stopped just in time to hear her meeting her husband on all fools day. WOW!
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Olympic Discussion / Re: George Bovell: London 2012 Olympics Swimming competition schedule & results
« on: July 27, 2012, 08:27:49 PM »
In the 50 his chances are very good. As good, I think, as 8 years ago in the 200 IM. He's the only one in the field with a seeded time that is as a result of in season training and no rest, and he is .40 from the second seed with that time. On paper, he looks good!
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Olympic Discussion / Re: George Bovell: London 2012 Olympics Swimming competition schedule & results
« on: July 27, 2012, 07:26:00 AM »
With all the big names and favourites, look out for Hanser Garcia of Cuba in the sprint freestyle races. He was the fastest on the surface of the water last year at pan am, and that included Cielo of Brazil, but his starts were so piss poor that he was coming up half a body length behind everyone. Presuming he has fixed that during his time in Italy with Andrea di Nino, he will be an absolute monster in London. Also, he is one of the youngest in the top tier of sprinting and has one of the highest ceilings for improvement.
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Other Sports / Nothing short of greatness
« on: July 16, 2012, 09:29:28 AM »
http://www.guardian.co.tt/lifestyle/2012-07-16/nothing-short-greatness
While we are on the topic of the Olympics, we have two Paralympians gearing up for late August in London.
They seem as different as night and day. The 17-year-old swimmer from Gasparillo Secondary who loves the butterfly stroke and the 43-year-old power-lifter who turned down a recent event where he was sure to medal again don’t appear to have much in common. Together, this dynamic duo, Shanntol Ince and Carlos Greene, share unshakeable determination and a common goal: to bring home Olympic medals for T&T. As the world focuses on the upcoming Olympics, they’ll be winding up their training for the Paralympics, which follow the Olympics in London from August 19 to September 9. Ince and Greene, sponsored by British Petroleum Trinidad and Tobago (bpTT) will represent T&T in those games. Ince will swim the 100-metre fly, 100-metre backstroke and 400-metre freestyle, and Greene will enter track and field competition for the discus and shot put. It’s the first time in 24 years that this country has sent athletes to the Summer Paralympics, but the local Paralympic organisation is back on track again. Ince and Greene feel proud to represent our country as athletes. “It’s an honour,” says Ince. “I consider myself to be a patriotic person,” says Greene. “I’m honoured.” Representing T&T as an athlete means hard-core training. For Ince and Greene, there are additional challenges. Ince was born with a significantly shorter right leg. Her flexed right foot barely passes her knee. Greene is blind. Those are challenges—not obstacles—for these two athletes. But they both have to step up their game for the Paralympics.
“They have to train just as hard as any other athletes,” says Colin Sebright, Ince’s strength-training coach at the Fitness Centre Gym in Starlite Plaza, Diego Martin. There, clients stop to marvel at Ince’s physical feats. She removes her leg prosthesis for training and swimming. She skips rope with a variety of intricate moves that most people can’t do with two legs. She practises explosive starts, kneeling on the floor and pushing off with a barbell threaded through a TRX, a Navy SEAL’s device used in suspension training. She flies through the air and lands on one foot. “She never misses her training,” says Sebright. “Her determination is admirable.” Her gruelling schedule includes two hours of training in the gym and two hours of swimming with coach Franz Huggins at Marlins. On Saturdays, there’s music practice and dance practice and Girls’ Brigade at her church. She devotes Sundays to church. Ince began swimming in Jay’s Private School at the age of four and was swimming competitively by the age of eight. “Growing up, I took part in everything—I swam, danced, played netball—anything physical, I was in that, ” said the quiet, pensive teenager with an uncanny ability to focus. “There is no difference between her or any other swimmer I coach,” said Huggins. “What sets her apart from others is her determination. She is willing to work hard, and she never complains.” It was two years ago that Ince saw a DVD about the Paralympics called Spirit in Motion. It changed her life. “I was inspired. I wanted to represent Trinidad and Tobago,” Ince said.
She has represented T&T and won gold medals in swimming events before, but not on the international scale of the Paralympics. Still, the race she remembers the most is the 2008 Open Water race here in T&T, a swimming marathon at Maracas Beach. “It was my first time swimming at Maracas. It was scary and I was praying to finish the race. You’re in the water, not seeing land, you feel there might be sharks. “When I finished, I was in the top eight for women. I’ll never forget that race,” she said, with a sense of control that seems to define her every move.
Ince describes herself as “ordinary, intelligent and hard-working…I am willing to work twice as hard to be on an ordinary level with other people.” Her determination has always helped her to thrive rather than survive. “It was challenging growing up. People used to stare at me and laugh. My parents always told me, ‘Don’t let anyone or anything discourage or dishearten you.’”
Her parents, St Paul Ince and Tracy James-Ince, always told her, “You’re special,” and instilled an unshakeable sense of confidence and spirituality in her. “They told me no matter what, the Lord is always there for me.” She dreams big and works toward lofty goals, from sports to school. Next year she’ll be studying sociology, biology and chemistry at CAPE level. She wants to be an occupational therapist some day. Ince is proof that there are no hurdles that can’t be conquered in life. Her advice: “Put God first in everything. Make sure you have the right support—the right company that will build you up and support you. Don’t worry about the past and what happened in the past. Believe in yourself and know you can do it.” Shanntol Ince believes nothing can keep her back in life, and she knows she’s a winner.
While we are on the topic of the Olympics, we have two Paralympians gearing up for late August in London.
They seem as different as night and day. The 17-year-old swimmer from Gasparillo Secondary who loves the butterfly stroke and the 43-year-old power-lifter who turned down a recent event where he was sure to medal again don’t appear to have much in common. Together, this dynamic duo, Shanntol Ince and Carlos Greene, share unshakeable determination and a common goal: to bring home Olympic medals for T&T. As the world focuses on the upcoming Olympics, they’ll be winding up their training for the Paralympics, which follow the Olympics in London from August 19 to September 9. Ince and Greene, sponsored by British Petroleum Trinidad and Tobago (bpTT) will represent T&T in those games. Ince will swim the 100-metre fly, 100-metre backstroke and 400-metre freestyle, and Greene will enter track and field competition for the discus and shot put. It’s the first time in 24 years that this country has sent athletes to the Summer Paralympics, but the local Paralympic organisation is back on track again. Ince and Greene feel proud to represent our country as athletes. “It’s an honour,” says Ince. “I consider myself to be a patriotic person,” says Greene. “I’m honoured.” Representing T&T as an athlete means hard-core training. For Ince and Greene, there are additional challenges. Ince was born with a significantly shorter right leg. Her flexed right foot barely passes her knee. Greene is blind. Those are challenges—not obstacles—for these two athletes. But they both have to step up their game for the Paralympics.
“They have to train just as hard as any other athletes,” says Colin Sebright, Ince’s strength-training coach at the Fitness Centre Gym in Starlite Plaza, Diego Martin. There, clients stop to marvel at Ince’s physical feats. She removes her leg prosthesis for training and swimming. She skips rope with a variety of intricate moves that most people can’t do with two legs. She practises explosive starts, kneeling on the floor and pushing off with a barbell threaded through a TRX, a Navy SEAL’s device used in suspension training. She flies through the air and lands on one foot. “She never misses her training,” says Sebright. “Her determination is admirable.” Her gruelling schedule includes two hours of training in the gym and two hours of swimming with coach Franz Huggins at Marlins. On Saturdays, there’s music practice and dance practice and Girls’ Brigade at her church. She devotes Sundays to church. Ince began swimming in Jay’s Private School at the age of four and was swimming competitively by the age of eight. “Growing up, I took part in everything—I swam, danced, played netball—anything physical, I was in that, ” said the quiet, pensive teenager with an uncanny ability to focus. “There is no difference between her or any other swimmer I coach,” said Huggins. “What sets her apart from others is her determination. She is willing to work hard, and she never complains.” It was two years ago that Ince saw a DVD about the Paralympics called Spirit in Motion. It changed her life. “I was inspired. I wanted to represent Trinidad and Tobago,” Ince said.
She has represented T&T and won gold medals in swimming events before, but not on the international scale of the Paralympics. Still, the race she remembers the most is the 2008 Open Water race here in T&T, a swimming marathon at Maracas Beach. “It was my first time swimming at Maracas. It was scary and I was praying to finish the race. You’re in the water, not seeing land, you feel there might be sharks. “When I finished, I was in the top eight for women. I’ll never forget that race,” she said, with a sense of control that seems to define her every move.
Ince describes herself as “ordinary, intelligent and hard-working…I am willing to work twice as hard to be on an ordinary level with other people.” Her determination has always helped her to thrive rather than survive. “It was challenging growing up. People used to stare at me and laugh. My parents always told me, ‘Don’t let anyone or anything discourage or dishearten you.’”
Her parents, St Paul Ince and Tracy James-Ince, always told her, “You’re special,” and instilled an unshakeable sense of confidence and spirituality in her. “They told me no matter what, the Lord is always there for me.” She dreams big and works toward lofty goals, from sports to school. Next year she’ll be studying sociology, biology and chemistry at CAPE level. She wants to be an occupational therapist some day. Ince is proof that there are no hurdles that can’t be conquered in life. Her advice: “Put God first in everything. Make sure you have the right support—the right company that will build you up and support you. Don’t worry about the past and what happened in the past. Believe in yourself and know you can do it.” Shanntol Ince believes nothing can keep her back in life, and she knows she’s a winner.
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Other Sports / Re: T&T Swimmers Thread!
« on: July 13, 2012, 06:23:07 AM »
George swam a sub 50 this year twice already and unrested. With the three next swimmers all around 50 high to 51 flat with a flat start, we were just outside the time needed to qualify our 4 x 100 freestyle to London. Serbia was 16th with a 3:21.93. Our flat start times were around 3:22 high. Good enough for 17th. NO vision by the swimming association again!
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What about Track & Field / Re: Darrel Brown
« on: July 06, 2012, 10:04:17 AM »
I mean you should hear how coaches who have had Darrel in recent years talk about his issues. The man is a 100m runner with no glute strength or stability. What you think that doing to his hamstring everytime he runs?
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What about Track & Field / Re: Darrel Brown
« on: July 06, 2012, 08:35:04 AM »
18 year old Darrel supposed to cut 16 year old Usain ass in that race. It ehn just the improvements. Bolt's bio stated how much he had to back off to maintain good health. In 2004 at 18 he went 19.93 and had he not regressed into a 20 point runner after that and kept his body healthy, he would have been in the same position as Brown. They were both super human as juniors, but one did what was right for him and the other had foolish men around him raping his talent through and through, hence the finished product we have now.
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Other Sports / Re: T&T Swimmers Thread!
« on: July 05, 2012, 07:13:46 AM »
As far as individual medalists go on form this year, because George has been so fast already and has not rested, he is probably our best chance for an individual medal after Kellyann. A medal in swimming just before track gets going will set us off right. I like Njisane's prospects as well.
Swimming 100 free and 100 back took my chances of putting those two young boys on the team. They cam within half a second of the B times but will have had to sit out due to George's preference. Look out for those two in the future though, starting with world juniors next year.
Swimming 100 free and 100 back took my chances of putting those two young boys on the team. They cam within half a second of the B times but will have had to sit out due to George's preference. Look out for those two in the future though, starting with world juniors next year.
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Olympic Discussion / Re: T&T Olypmic Contingent Announced - TTOC targetting 5 medals!
« on: July 01, 2012, 02:54:30 PM »I am surprise Kimberlee John-Williams wasn't included.Does she have the Olympic A or B standard this season in any of her swimming events?
If she doesn't then that would explain it.
She doesn't. The closest were the two 16 year old boys Carter and Romany. Bovell is swimming both their events though and so a B time would not have been enough anyway.
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General Discussion / Re: Breaking News - JACK NEW MINISTER OF NATIONAL SECURITY
« on: June 25, 2012, 11:52:51 AM »Sunity said it best today... Jack lives by the credo that the end justifies the means. For me what I find most compelling about this statement is that when you look at Jack, what makes him so "effective" in the eyes of his supporters is that he disregards process in favor of apparent results. I say "apparent" because sometimes the potency of the "result" is short-term or limited, but when you're dealing with a populace fed on years of ministerial inertia, along comes a Jack Warner and he's able to pass off activity for achievement.
Returning to the "process" issue however, too much process can frustrate achievement, but the solution isn't to do away with process, but to improve it. Procedures are there for a reason, to ensure due diligence and to make it easier to replicate achievement in the future. If there is a clear path to achievement then it would be easier to follow that path again in future, or to even implement it in other places. Without process achievement is left to the vagaries of chance... but this sadly, is lost on supporters.
The most coherent statement in this entire thread. We feel starved for progress down here and it is not that we haven't had any. It is that it has come at a terrible cost, be it financially, morally or otherwise. King Austin wasn't just right, he was spot on!
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Other Sports / Re: Bovell beats Phelps in Texas swim
« on: June 02, 2012, 07:52:11 PM »
Nonesense. He qualified ahead of him for the finals. He placed third behind Feigen and Phelps in the final. He just beat Feigen to win the 50. Article is misleading!
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General Discussion / Re: Summit of the Americas
« on: April 15, 2012, 05:43:04 AM »Quotewhat if anything is driving our policy?
Money! Legitimate and otherwise!
So if we take that stance is Cuba then an untapped market that is soon to embrace the free market?
Remember under Ken Valley we tried, and even provided an unprofitable air link which began the sinking of BWIA.
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Other Sports / Re: lil swimmers
« on: April 15, 2012, 05:38:36 AM »
I highly doubt that that is what is being done in Britain, but if it is, then they are killing careers before they start. Any 12-14 year olds training like that are going to develop injuries. I know in the US they train fairly hard but because of the large size of the talent pool, they can get away with one or two falling by the wayside. We do not have a national policy in Trinidad and Tobago (big surprise) but many of our coaches make decisions based on economics, and have to produce in order to gain sponsorship, or funding or even just to keep the membership of the clubs vibrant. Some take that philosophy and apply it to young kids (10 and under) and that is where we are being terribly irresponsible.
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General Discussion / Re: Summit of the Americas
« on: April 14, 2012, 06:22:52 AM »Quote
what if anything is driving our policy?
Money! Legitimate and otherwise!
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Other Sports / Re: Carifta Swimming
« on: April 13, 2012, 04:01:42 PM »
6 Gold and leading the medal table after first night. We second on points. Heading into the start of the second night right now.
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Other Sports / Carifta Swimming
« on: April 12, 2012, 11:19:58 AM »
It has started in the Bahamas and anyone interested can watch the live stream at http://bahamasswimmingfederation.com/_m1810/Live-Video-Feed-Carifta-2012
finals tonight start at 6:30 Nassau time which is also TT time and eastern time. From tomorrow onwards they start at 6.
finals tonight start at 6:30 Nassau time which is also TT time and eastern time. From tomorrow onwards they start at 6.
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Other Sports / Re: George Bovell
« on: March 31, 2012, 06:14:05 PM »
George is looking good this year, and has announced his status as a real medal threat in the 50 free this year with a 21.89 at the Indianapolis Grand Prix last night. He was second to the US's Nathan Adrian by .01, but with both guys untapered and hitting those times after trials for France and Australia have already passed, it could be reasonable to suggest that they have just upped their status as favourites along with Brazil's Cesar Cielo for the medals in London. The swims rank them joint 3rd and 5th for the year so far. He also just broke his 100m backtroke National record tonight for good measure. I guess training up at Michigan with Mike Bottom has really gotten him back on track.
Well done George!
Well done George!
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Cricket Anyone / Re: Viv's Swagger
« on: March 24, 2012, 09:31:50 AM »
His name is Isaac Alexander Vivian Richards. Viv is what he was called. And d brudda was menacing on the field and feared nothing! That is why people loved him. Everyone has fans and detractors, most objective people respected Viv.