Yes, Trinidad and Tobago has a sporting culture. From a very young age sports and competition is introduced to us. All those primary school meets and leagues. Even churches have their own heavily contested sports days. It carries on with even more intensity at the secondary school level. And now there are so many pro- and semi-pro leagues for all manner of sports.
Is it any wonder with a culture like this we have produced some world class sports men and women? But you might ask, how is it that a country with a population of just over a million, with no obvious funding channelled into sports, can produce such champions. It it the genes? The competing at such young ages? The food? I don't know, but that we are a sporting giant is in no doubt.
Here are a few of our country's finest (I'll update and add profiles in time):
Ato Boldon - Track & Field
Brian Lara - Cricket
Carlos Edwards - Football
Cleopatra Borel-Brown - Track & Field
Darrell Brown - Track & Field
Dwight Yorke - Football
George Bovell 111 - Swimming
Hasley Crawford - Track & Field
Marc Burns - Track & Field
Shaka Hislop - Football
Stephen Ames - Golf
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