Leg­endary sprint­er and world-renowned broad­cast­er Ato Boldon has is­sued a scathing as­sess­ment of the state of track and field in Trinidad and To­ba­go, de­clar­ing he has “nev­er seen it this bad” and lay­ing the blame square­ly at the feet of the sport’s gov­ern­ing body.

Boldon, who won T&T’s first-ever World Cham­pi­onship gold medal in the 200m in Athens 1997, made his pow­er­ful com­ments dur­ing an ap­pear­ance on the iS­ports Sat­ur­day pro­gramme with An­dre Er­rol Bap­tiste on i95.5FM here on Sat­ur­day.

The for­mer Olympic medal­list did not mince words, stat­ing that the Na­tion­al As­so­ci­a­tion of Ath­let­ic Ad­min­is­tra­tions (NAAA) needs to take a long, hard look in the mir­ror if the sport is to be saved from its cur­rent de­cline.