Hello world, take that

While all is not well on the political, judicial, economic and social fronts, I am always happy when our sporting and cultural heroes do TT proud on the local, regional and international stages.

To cut a long story short, I congratulate all our athletes who represented the red, white and black at the 2017 IAAF World Championships in London, England.

We had some outstanding performances from Jereem “The Dream” Richards who awakened me from “beping” with a bronze medal in the 200 metres final.

The man was finishing like a ton of bricks. Jereem came back to strike gold with our 4x400 metres men — Jarrin Solomon, Machel Cedenio and Lalonde Gordon.

What a joy! The world has to take that in its rookung.

Several athletes have complained about funding problems which must be rectified by the authorities as we head for Tokoyo 2020.

Two of my favourite athletes, Michelle Lee Ahye and Keshorn “Toco Boy” Walcott, did not medal, so I say to them and all the others — keep the faith and forget the armchair critics.

KEITH ANDERSON via email