Sprint cyclists take Junior Pan Am gold

Trinidad and Tobago’s Junior Men’s Sprint team pedalled into local history books yesterday, when they powered to this country’s first-ever gold medal in the Sprint division on day-one of the Junior Pan American Cycling Championships, which rode off at the National Velodrome Zone 13, Guatemala City, yesterday.

Amid pleas from thousands of dog owners for the authorities to repeal the Dangerous Dogs Act, comes the testimony from a father of two who said his trained pitbull saved his family from harm after a thief broke into their home in Princes Town last Saturday morning.

POPULAR Trinidad and Tobago “kite-man” Arthur Henry is calling for locals to revert to the way Trinbagonians have known kites to be, which is to be an enjoyment of sound and sight.

ADAM FOLEY, technical director of the Trinidad and Tobago water polo teams, has stated his delight with the national teams’ clean sweep of titles (Boys’ Under-15, Boys’ Under-19 and Girls’ Under-19) at the recent CARIFTA Water Polo Championships in Jamaica.

Tournament director of the recently concluded KFC Junior Squash Open, Barry Bibby was pleased to see an increase in the levels of competitive consistency from the local players throughout this year’s competition.

The Neal and Massy Rainbow Cup 3,000 Open Water swim event, sanctioned by the Amateur Swimming Association of Trinidad will splash off at Heritage Park, Turtle Beach, Tobago, on May 26.

The Trinidad and Tobago Squash Association recently introduced their Junior Membership Programme at the Cascadia Hotel Squash Club, St Ann’s.

BARBADOS are the new netball princesses of the Caribbean.

THERE will be 19 Clubs vying for top honours in this year’s Caribbean Netball Association’s (CNA) Summer Netball League and Caribbean Cup 2012 presented by LIME, the Caribbean’s only full service telecommunications company.

West Indies all-rounder Stafanie Taylor will be looking to cement her place at the top of the Reliance ICC Women’s ODI Player Rankings for batters this week with the beginning of her side’s three-match ODI series against Sri Lanka which starts in Barbados tomorrow.

DENSIL Theobald’s Dempo Sports Club were crowned champions of the Indian Football League last week although they played to a goalless draw with the Kolkata East Bengal at the Nehru Stadium in Fatorda.