THE RIO MATRIX

THE RIO MATRIX

THE TRINIDAD & TOBAGO OLYMPIC TEAM FOR RIO HAS ALREADY BEEN SELECTED.

There is a lot of dead wood on it.

There are competitors on the team who have not met the Olympic qualifying standards “a” / “b”.

There is injured athletes s who will report for duty.

The TTO Olympic team has been selected.

The executives are under a vow of secrecy.

Any whistle blower found guilty will be dealt with accordingly.

What is the competitor’s position?

There is no known Olympic trials held in T&T. however, the athlete must be present to compete at the national championships.  Strong-armed!

The national championship is not a trial. However, foreign nationals are allowed to compete seeking standards to represent their country.

The other intriguing part of the continuing saga has revealed that even if you place in the first 4. You are not guaranteed a spot on the relay team or allowed an opportunity to compete in the corresponding individual events.  Is this not a trial?

 If an athlete speaks about these atrocities he/she will be black listed. They will not be permitted to compete.  (Machiavellianism)

NSO are a family /boys & girls club affair! (Discrimination)

You do not mess with family business!  (Predilection)

 You can’t penetrate the discriminating boys/girls club. They conduct the show. (Puritanical)

The United States ,Canada ,Jamaica, Australia ,Great Britain and most country  select athletes based on the result of their  2016  Olympic Trials. They also have a policy of entering every athlete so qualified.

In more progressive states here is how athletes will qualify for RIO 2016 in track and field.

 It is a now-or-never pressure cooker event called the Olympic trials. (OT)

 For Canada’s elite track and field athletes, the road to RIO goes through Edmonton. (OT)

For the USA it is Eugene, Oregon, (OT)

 For Jamaica it is Kingston, (OT)

 Before this actually happens, you’ll have to prove you‘ve got what it takes to compete against the best the world has to offer. Achieve the IAAF/Olympic standards

This is the millennium era, Trinidad & Tobago sports administration are all operating in the Puritan age. (The Scarlet Letter)

TTO where is your Olympic   trial to assure athletes of due process opportunity to represent TTO without partisan interference?

“Yet in that very question lies the significance of this saga, which interrogates the conflict between individual impulses and systematized social codes.”

The April 2016 IAAF approved standards athletes must achieved to compete in Rio.

 Women:                                                  
100m – 11.32
200m – 23.20
400m – 52.00
800m – 2:01.00
100m Hurdles – 13.00
400m Hurdles – 56.20

Men:

100m – 10.16
200m – 20.50
400m – 45.40
800m – 1:45.80
110m Hurdles – 13.47
400m Hurdles – 49.40

 The Olympic entry standards opened on May 1, 2015 and closes on July 11, 2016, meaning the Trials are the last chance to get that standard.

National Olympic Committee (NOC) may enter up to 3 qualified athletes in each individual event if all athletes meet the entry standard during the qualifying period.

If no athlete meets the entry standard you are permitted to enter. (1 athlete per sex) regardless of time /height/distance. They are called quota places

Here is  Trinidad and Tobago 2016 Olympic Team, No trials necessary !

Trinidad and Tobago is scheduled to compete at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, from August 5-21, 2016. 

Athletics, boxing, cycling, track, Gymnastics, artistic, judo, rowing, sailing, and swimming

Athletics:

Athletes from Trinidad and Tobago have so far achieved qualifying standards in the following athletics events (up to a maximum of 3 athletes in each event):

Track events:

4x100m, 4x400m relays.

·        Men’s 100 m 3 quota places

·        Men’s 200 m-2 quota places  (Kyle Greaux, Rondel Sorrillo)

·        Men’s 400 m-3 quotas places

·        Men’s 100 m hurdles – 1 quota place (Mikel Thomas)

·        Men’s 400 m hurdles -1 quota (Jehue Gordon)

·        Men’s javelin throw – 1 quota place (Keshorn Walcott)

·        Women’s 100 m-3  quota places

·        Women’s 200 m -3 quota places

·        Women’s 400 m hurdles -2 quota places (Janielle  Bellille, Sparkle McKnight

·        Women’s shot put 1-quota place (Cleopatra Borel)

Boxing:

Trinidad and Tobago has entered one boxer to compete in the men’s super-heavyweight division into the Olympic boxing tournament.  Nigel Paul had claimed his Olympic spot with a semifinal victory at the 2016 American Qualification Tournament in Buenos Aires, Argentina

Men: Nigel Paus Super Heavyweight

Cycling:

Following the completion of the 2016 UCI Track Cycling World Championships. Trinidad and Tobago has entered one rider to compete only in the men’s spring at the Olympics, by virtue of his final individual UCI Olympic rankings in that event.

Men’s Sprint: Njisane Phillip  

Gymnastics:

Trinidad and Tobago has entered on artistic gymnastic for the first time into the Olympic competition.  Marisa Dick has claimed her Olympic spot in the women’s apparatus and all around events at the Olympic Test Event in Rio de Janiero.

Women: Marisa Dick

Judo:

Trinidad and Tobago has qualified on judoka for the men’s half-heavyweight category (100kg) at the Games, signifying the nation’s Olympic debut in the sport.  Christopher George earned a continental quota sport from the Pan American region, as Trinidad and Tobago’s sole judoka in the IJF World Ranking list of May30, 2016.

Christopher George Men’s – 100kg

Rowing:

For the first time in Olympic history, Trinidad and Tobago has qualified one boat in the women’s single scull for the Games at the 2016 Latin American Continental Qualification Regatta in Valparaiso, Chile

Felice Chow Women’s single sculls

Sailing:

Trinidad & Tobago has qualified a boat in men’s Laser class by virtue of a top finish for North America at the 2015 Pan American Games

Men Laser: Lewis

Swimming:

Swimmers from Trinidad and Tobago have so far achieved qualifying standards in the following events (up to a maximum of 2 swimmers in each event at the Olympic Qualifying time (OQT), and potentially 1 at the Olympic Selection Time (OST)

Men’s 50 m freestyle: 1 quota place (George Bovell)

Dr. Cliff Bertrand

Olympian