 TT athletes to train in Germany for ‘worlds’
T&T Newsday.
GERMAN Ambassador Dr Ernst Martens will host a reception tonight to mark the Caribbean Athletics Federations Seminar in preparation for the 12th World Championships in Athletics in Berlin 2009.
For athletes around the globe and their fans the 2009 Berlin World Championships in Athletics will be the highlight of the year. The whole world will be watching as the German capital plays host to the event from August 15 to 23, with its Olympic Stadium in the centre of attention as 2,000 athletes will be competing for titles and medals in 47 competitions.
From T&T Newsday:
Abraham, German clash in Newsday 30-lap grind
By Walter Alibey
THE NEWSDAY-sponsored Republic Day Cycle Classic and 5K Run and Walk will have an international flavour today.
It will also present an opportunity for local road champion Emile Abraham to renew rivalry with Stefan Steinweg of Germany in the feature 30-lap event.
This will get underway soon after the run and walk from 3 pm at King George V Park, St Clair.
The 2007 Classic Winner relives his experience
Three German teams confirmed for 2008
From the Guardian Arena magazine:
 “My best memory of Tobago was ‘winning the race’ !!!!! It was my biggest win of my career. I was happy we came for two weeks so we had plenty of time to go site seeing on our bikes all over the island, get a nice tan and enjoyed many different local foods and drinks.
The organisers of the race made sure we were all comfortable and happy all the time and we also had lots of fun in the glass bottom boat trip to Nylon Pool and Buccoo Reef with all the teams and officials.
The Saturday evening party festival with steel band music and DJ Michael Baker was so much fun. The weather was super perfect and I made some nice friends in Tobago....These memories will always remain with me!”
— Andreas Henig
On July 2 T&T Newsday reports:
MEMBERS of the Predators Football Club of Cunupia proudly wearing the jerseys adorned in the Deutschland colours handed over by the German Ambassador
Predators Get Football Gear
PREDATORS Football Club recently received football equipment and uniforms courtesy the German Ambassador, Ernst Martens.
The German handed over the equipment to club president Krishna Murity Ramjit, last Thursday at their ground in Cunupia, central Trinidad.
Predators FC, a Cunupia-based team was founded in May 2001 and joined the Central Football Association (CFA) Football League.
The side, formerly known as the Cunupia International All-Stars FC provides a facility by which youths in the community can play and enjoy football as well as develop their skills and technical abilities.
Currently there are 25 members of the team which are training for the 2008/2009 edition of the CFA Football League and preparations are being made for the Predators FC 2008 Youth Camp. The donation by the German Ambassador was made available in the framework of the Sports Promotion Programme of the German Foreign Office. And it coincides with the 2008 European Football Championship — UEFA EURO 2008 — held in the Alpine countries of Austria and Switzerland in which Germany finished second, losing to Spain in the final 1-0 courtesy a Fernando Torres strike.
 The volleyball fans in Friedrichshafen can look forward to more Caribbean flair in the next two seasons. Middle blocker Marc Honore extended his contract with VfB for two more years with the option of a third. "I'm staying because I enjoy being part of this team," he said, "I still want to learn a lot at VfB and to keep improving myself."
His coach, Stelian Moculecsu, is thrilled to keep him on the team. "I am very pleased with his development," he said, adding that Honore is a quick study and hard working. Even though there were a couple players ahead of him in the pecking order for the middle position the coach believes that as long as he keeps up his work rate he will be playing more next season: "Marc still has time and the perspective to play an important role for VfB."
Honore is the first player from Trinidad and Tobago to sign a professional volleyball contract and so is a bit of a star back home. He looks back on his first season in Friedrichshafen with satisfaction. "The season was great. We were very successful and our fans were always unbelievable. I'd like to thank them for that," he says, "I am happy that we were league champions and cup winners."
In the coming year the 2.04 meter tall giant wants not only to improve his German, but also, of course his playing skills. "My goal is to learn and become a better volleyball player. I hope that we will be just as successful as last season and that we manage to make the final round of the Champions League."
translated from volleyball.de:
Honore will weiter lernen – in Friedrichshafen
First place Germany’s Stefan Steinweg, centre, celebrates with second place Marlon Williams of Team WI (Guyana), left, and Oneil Samuels also of Team WI (Jamaica) at the awards ceremony following the final event of the Beacon Cycling Series at the Queen’s Park Savannah in Port of Spain on Sunday.
Beacon Cycling Series—West Indies versus The World
Foreigners dominate
By Gregory Trujillo, Trinidad Guardian
Another successful Beacon Insurance West Indies versus The World Cycling Classic has ended.
The fifth renewal of the series, the brainchild of former national cyclist Michael Philips, was dominated by the foreigners with Roberto Ciappa (Italy) and Sebastian Donadio (Argentina) leading the way in the sprints and Dario Pagliaricci (Argentina), Justin Williams (USA) and Germany’s Stefan Steinweg being the top wheelsmen in the endurance races.
Highlight of the meet was the blistering 11.07 clocking of Ciappa in the Flying 200 at the Arima Velodrome - the time erasing the 11.11 seconds record established by Barry Forde of Barbados three years ago.
Christopher Sellier, the 22-year-old local pedal pusher, had the distinction of beating Ciappa in two straight rides to cop the “Blue Ribbon” match sprint which took place on Saturday at Skinner Park in San Fernando.
Justin Williams, after winning the opening 14-lap race around Queen’s Park Savannah, won the longest track event, the 45 laps on Saturday at Skinner Park.
The American and Argentine Dario Pagliaricci, who was voted the most outstanding rider at the Easter Grand Prix, shared honours in the longer races on the track.
Steinweg won two of the three road races. After suffering from jet-lag in the opening savannah grind (he finished down the field), the German returned to win the Tobago event and the curtain race around the savannah on Sunday.
Jizelle Salandy wins with a 97-94 score from all three judges over Karolina Lukasik but not without controversy. Here the Express tells the story:
Salandy Retains Titles
...beats Poland's Lukasik
by unanimous decision
By Ian Prescott, T&T Express
Karolina Lukasik shed tears in her dressing room after it was announced that Trinidad and Tobago's Jizelle Salandy had won their junior-middleweight multiple world-title fight by a unanimous points decision on Saturday night at the Centre of Excellence, Macoya.
After narrowly winning her toughest bout, Salandy (16-0) now has among her eight titles the WBA, WBC, WIBA, WIBF, IWBF, and GBU junior-middleweight crowns. Lukasik of Poland was suffering her first defeat in ten matches.
Judges George St Aude, Will Boodoo and Octavio Rodriguez all saw Salandy winning 97-94. The fight, though, was much closer than the three-point spread suggested and could have gone either way.
Afterwards, Salandy was elated, boasting of setting a world record with her night's haul of belts.
Salandy defends title tonight
By Ian Prescott, T&T Express
 Karolina Lukasik stripped down to bare essentials, her underwear, yesterday before coming away just a half-pound under the 154-pound limit for tonight's junior-middleweight world championship fight against Trinidad and Tobago's Jizelle Salandy, which takes place at the Centre of Excellence, Macoya.
Yesterday's weigh-in at the Sweet Lime Restaurant, Woodbrook, also saw Salandy, holder of the WBC and WBA junior-middleweight titles, tipping the scales at 150 pounds, the lightest she has been for some time.
 Salandy Looks For Gym To Train
Zaid Mohammed, T&T Newsday
Trinidad and Tobago’s world female boxing champion Giselle Salandy yesterday received a big setback in her preparation for a first mandatory title defence.
The unbeaten Salandy’s March 29 bout against Karolina Lukasik of Germany has been placed in jeopardy as a decision is pending on her request to train at the new National Boxing Gym at the Hasely Crawford Stadium, Mucurapo.
 The 21st running of the Tobago Cycle Classic finished on Sunday with three German teams participating: Team Sachsen Saxony, Team Atlas Romer, and Team Gütersloh. German riders managed to dominate this year's race taking the top four spots. For complete stats and info on the race see www.trinbagowheelers.com.
Here is a report from the Trinidad Express:
Germans rule Tobago Classic
The Germans ruled Stage Five of the Tobago International Cycling Classic Division I to sweep the top four spots on the final day of racing, as well as in overall competition, yesterday.
Top Trinidad and Tobago rider Emile Abraham finished 12th in yesterday's stage and was the only local cyclist in the top ten overall, in ninth place.
The Tobago-born Pan Am bronze medal winner--riding for Team Angostura--found tough competition among the Germans, who had six finishers in the top eight.
The overall winner was Andreas Henig of Team Atlas Romas, despite finishing in second place, more than four minutes behind countryman Erik Mohs (Team Sachsen Saxony) in Stage Five.
Henig's teammate Nico Scheider enjoyed third place in both the final stage and the final standings, followed in both by another German Axel Hauschke (Team Sachsen Saxony).
Of the top 20 cyclists, 11 were Germans.
Guy Costa (Ramfon Mecalfab, 14th overall) and O'Neil Samuels (Team Trek, 16th overall) finished 18th and 19th, respectively, yesterday for T&T's best efforts outside of Abraham.
Tobago Cycling Classic Overall Results:
1. Andreas Henig (Germany); 2. Erik Mohs (Germany); 3. Nico Schneider (Germany); 4. Axel Hauschke (Germany); 5. Robbie King (USA); 6. Marloe Rodman (Jamaica); 7. Udo Mueller (Germany); 8. Timo Scholz (Germany); 9. Emile Abraham (T&T); 10. Jan Puyvelde (Germany); 14. Guy Costa (T&T); 16. O'Neil Samuels (T&T)
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