Your question is still relevant today!
Depending on the older heads who are getting older each year is why we in this hot mess
https://www.facebook.com/TeamTrinbago/posts/731700668176112
Like my good friend Mike Grayson repeat over and over, it has to start collectively and seriously at the primary school level.
and WHO will be coaching them to be better at the primary school level?
Old men like you who think a Canadian runner (Blake) ran 10.06 in a race and now a serious threat to the world?
Sando what is your issue ? You know damn well the development programs are woefully lacking in all sports in the country. So when do we start engaging youths to build their skills, when they reach HS ? Well Breds, it will be a bit too late for most of them. Yes, most primary schools in this era have little interest in sports, unless a couple of their kids who play for a club. We have these different denominational schools, plus the govt schools. What are their programs? The only primary school program that has traction is the POS environs. They get sponsorship for Nestle Milo. Tobago does its own thing with assistance from the Tobago House of Assembley. I don't know about East, South and Central. Central is probably the wealthiest area in TT and apart from cricket, very little is done with TF, basketball, netball, swimming, cycling. Mind you, they have the most of the facilities now. And I will ask the question again, and again, and again. Why is there a lack of East Indian boys and girls in sports(except cricket)? They answer is, there is no serious programs at the primary school level. Blame, the schools, govt(Ministry of Education, Ministry of Sports) and the parents.
As far as Blake winning the 100 in 10.94 ? He beat Johan Blake, Eryon Knighton and Noah Lyles(3 "shittongs", right ?). I know is one race. I was impressed with his performance. He beat 3 Olympians. They ran the race into a very strong headwind. It was overcast and rainy. Plus Bermuda is a very flat island so the wind has an effect on the race times. Almost all the times in that meet was "slow". It is like running from west to east in TT. Geo V park and Skinner park was like that. So that is my opinions. Take it from there.