00:00Olympic gold medalist Hesley Crawford will be 75 years old on August 16th, but he allowed his blood pressure to climb a little higher at a high-performance meeting put on by the University of Trinidad and Tobago.
00:12Ephraim told me about this activity, and I felt I should be here, because after 75 years, I finished with it, because I have tried too long. I can recall for the past 21 years, we have been trying, unless that happens, we're going over with this.
00:32The Minister of Sport and the Minister of Education should be here. Should be here. Thank God we have... And please, I'm not talking, there's no politics here. 25 years I've been trying for this to happen. Just what is happening here. And we have one person missing. But I hope that the Minister will speak to this other Minister of Education.
00:56Crawford praised UTT for their devotion to developing the local sporting fraternity, but he added much lacking on a national scale. He pinpointed the attitude of some coaches towards the job.
01:07Some of these coaches right here, they can't even speak to them. They cannot even speak to them because they feel they know it all. They don't.
01:14I went to the stadium, I went to the stadium, I went to the stadium this week, Saturday morning.
01:21And I left because I was tired of seeing athletes running all out. They cannot run 200 meters, young people.
01:29And this is welcome, Mr. Minister. You need to get your other minister here. Unless this is just a talking shop.
01:40Technical Director Anton Corneal, who was also part of the panel discussion, indicated that coaches also faced their difficulties.
01:47We can't improve the game if we don't improve the coaches. But it's not enough. We are seeing other areas that's outside of the coaches' hands.
01:58Infrastructure. When we don't have good fields. I had a discussion with Steve McLaren from Jamaica. And he said, how on earth are you producing players? And the fields are not good.
02:11The meeting saw other contributions from several UTT administrators on ways and methods to improve the local sporting climate.
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