Blessing in disguise

200 SHOWDOWN: Mauricia Prieto, left, and Semoy Hackett do battle in the NGC NAAA National Open Championship women’s 200 metres final at the Hasely Crawford Stadium in Port of Spain, Trinidad, last July. Prieto and Hackett finished second and third, respectively, clocking 23.09 seconds and 23.32. Kamaria Durant (not in photo) won in 22.96. –Photo: DENNIS ALLEN for @TTGameplan

Blessing in disguise

Express

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Kwame Laurence

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19/06/2020

Unlike many of her Trinidad and Tobago teammates, Mauricia Prieto’s training programme was not affected by the Covid-19 pandemic.

Before everything got shut down, Prieto told the Express, “I had a difficult choice to make between focusing on completing the 500 internship hours required to graduate or…