Sprinter Nyoshia Cain was yesterday evening disqualified in the women’s 200 metres T44 heat, her first event at the Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

PRIMARY and secondary school students in Valencia and Sangre Grande got the opportunity to meet, greet and mob their sporting hero Keshorn Walcott yesterday afternoon during a motorcade to honour his Olympic bronze medal achievement at the Rio 2016 Olympics.

JAVELIN THROW earned Trinidad and Tobago its first Paralympic gold in over three decades. The nation might not have to wait long for its next one.

PHILIP “Phil” Simmons has been fired as coach of the West Indies team with immediate effect, ahead of the squad’s departure to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to face Pakistan in a two-monthlong tour, comprising of three T20 Internationals, three One- Day Internationals (ODIs) and three Test matches.