Deeks makes a good point.
Years ago I started to point out publicly that declining Carifta medals is a sign of a TNT athletics tree dying at the roots.
AS USUAL, what I said (by the usual group who somehow always feel threatened by me even though I have zero interest in anyone's job in TNT or anywhere else) was dismissed as "me crying down the youths". (That insult was one of the reasons I started to coach Khalifa)
Now, coming off of the worst Carifta Games medal total in memory...tell me - who do you see, in the TnT junior ranks, that will emerge as a world beater in the next 36 months?
...because if we don't have good answers then we have to start to find 'foreign' kids with TNT roots, stat.
That club system is producing very little now, but it's our 'feeder' system?
Look at the last individual medalists for TNT, at Worlds and Olympics + World Juniors and World Youth.
I'll start you - Jehue Gordon, Machel Cedenio, Khalifa St. Fort, Kelly-Ann Baptiste, Josanne Lucas, Renny Quow, Keshorn Walcott, Lalonde Gordon, Richard Thompson.
Now... tell me what factor jumps out at you.