After earning three Olympic medals in the previous two Games at London and Helsinki, The Trinidad and Tobago contingent headed to Melbourne for the 1956 Summer Games full of hope. On the team was the weightlifting pairing of Rodney Wilkes and Lennox Kilgour, who had won Olympic bronze medals four years before, three track athletes, Joe Goddard, Edmund Turton, and the exciting new prospect Mike Agostini, and the lone cyclist Hilton “Barracuda” Mitchell.
Trinidad and Tobago had good cause for being optimistic about medaling. Trinidad and...
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Author: Vidia Ramphal