On a warm evening in a Barcelona suburb 24 years ago, the air thick and heavy, the light-grey and gold, Cuba and the USA met in a baseball game that was as much a contest of ideologies as an Olympic semi-final. As the two teams lined up to shake hands before the semi-final, each Cuban presented his opponent with a commemorative pennant. The Americans had come empty-handed.

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) in cooperation with Adecco and the Trinidad and Tobago Olympic Committee (TTOC) will host for the first time a Trinidad and Tobago Athlete Career Programme (ACP) Workshop for athletes on Saturday 3rd December, 2016 at Olympic House -121 Abrecromby Street, Port. Of. Spain, from 9:00am - 4:30pm. The workshop will be led by Olympians and IOC ACP Outreach Facilitators Cydonie Mothersille and Katura Horton-Perinchief.

Xavier Mulugata of Fatima College joins a list of T&T athletes who received athletic scholarships to US universities. Mulugata will begin his studies at Louisiana State University (LSU) in January. He won gold at the 2014 Central American and Caribbean (CAC) Junior Track and Field Championships in Mexico in the boys Under-18 4x100 metres and also bronze in the boys U-20 4x100m at the 2015 Carifta Games in St Kitts and Nevis.