Press Release | Trinidad and Tobago Olympic Committee, President Larry Romany: ‘There are no shortcuts.’
March 23, 2008 by Sasha Manuel
Filed under Sports Rumors
March 22, 2008 – Taking Olympic Sports to the next level that is the objective of the Trinidad and Tobago Olympic Committee (TTOC).
“We are living in a fool’s paradise if we continue to act as if achieving sporting excellence will come without higher standards of fitness and strength.These building blocks must be in place ,there are no shortcuts” said TTOC president Larry Romany.
Romany was explaining the rationale behind the TTOC Sport performance strength and conditioning course which will start on Tuesday 25 March at the Athletes Lounge at the Hasely Crawford Stadium.
“It is called sport performance because it is just that,there are certain principles and sport science based protocols that are imperative in high performance sports”
The national Olympic chief pointed out that a number of local coaches involved in Olympic Sports have admitted that there is a need to improve their knowledge of periodized strength and conditioning.
The TTOC will be bringing in two Canadian strength and conditioning experts for the one week course.
I agree with Mr. Romany. T&T Sports needs an overhaul. I am not sure that we are doing enough to improve and maximize T&T’s most valuable Sporting talents, in fact, do we even know, who our sporting talents are? There are hundreds of primary schools and high schools with
with youngsters with raw talent that needs to be identified, I am not sure if we have a good scouting or recruiting commitee in place to begin professionally harnessing, training, exposing and polishing these natural talents we have. The Olympics consist of many different types of sports, we need the Government to allocate more money to fund training these atheletes and getting them ready for the Olympics. The Olympics is a great way to put our country on the map, sensitizing people to the fact that we exist. Jamaica has found a way to keep spurning out top rated top class Track and field atheletes, we have to also find a niche, and work a strategic plan to put out quality atheletes that will make us proud