Media must remain united

Jul 06, 2008 Sports

– should vigorously pursue Administrative incompetence

By Rawle Welch
Recently, the media’s collective attempt to highlight another glaring example of incompetence, vindictiveness and deceit portrayed by a top Sports Administrator could not come sooner.

For too long, because of our lack of a unified stance, most of those guilty of such actions deliberately chose to wait out the period of heighten debate with the knowledge that the issue(s) brought to light would soon be forgotten presenting them with many more opportunities to display their ineptitude.

Certain Sport Administrators incompetence has destroyed many careers and the media must share some of the blame for this development so to see moves being made to jointly accentuate the poor performances of some of these officials should serve notice to them.

The effort must be well co-ordinated and sustained which could help to exert pressure on the guilty parties, forcing them to either improve their performance or quit.

What is most worrying is the fact that a majority of these officials have been in office for ‘donkey’ years and their dismal performances have been a dominant feature for the better part of their tenure.

They should not be given any space to rest and feel comfortable about their poor performances and the media must be quick to hold them accountable for their actions.

There are too many examples of administrators’ lack of concern for athletes and sometimes it is hard to imagine how they continue to preside over organisations that have consistently failed to produce any kind of positive results without feeling guilty themselves.

Just the other day, I was asked by a student from the University of Guyana to name two impediments affecting Caribbean Development and after stating my two reasons which were Accountability and Good Governance my thoughts immediately centred on sports and more directly why it is not going anywhere in Guyana.

Those same two reasons proffered must rank high among the main causes for the lack of progress in sports across this country.

Accountability- In the case of administrations, it is being answerable to athletes and stakeholders who are involved in the particular discipline about decisions made and resources expended among others.

Governance- It is primarily how and to what end officials’ authority is exercised and the need to include stakeholders in decision making etc.

In many organisations, these two important elements are sadly lacking and decisions are made without consensus thus defeating the intended purpose which is to get general support.

Take the recent fiasco that involved the selection of Oslyn Collins by the Athletic Association of Guyana to represent the country at the World Junior Championships in Poland, once again it was felt that the responsible administration had made the wrong decision and once again that evoked a heated debate among sport aficionados and the management of the country’s leading distance athlete Alika Morgan.

This is not the first time that the said organisation has been singled out for their perceived poor decisions since many observers feel that no justifiable reason could be offered to place Collins ahead of Morgan as Guyana’s representative.

When you match up the two, Morgan is far and away the most impressive and her record supports that, but instead an executive attached to the governing body for the sport here gave an implausible reason to justify Collins selection.

The media must remain relentless in its pursuit to draw attention to any act of ineptness by sports officials.

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