Latest update December 25th, 2024 1:10 AM
Apr 06, 2009 Sports
– locals appear not to be favoured
In just 68 days time Guyana will hopefully join 25 other regional territories that will congregate in Trinidad and Tobago to participate in the inaugural Caribbean Games which will be held from July 12-19.
It will mark the first time that many people in the region get to see most of the regional stars in action since they dominated the last Olympics which was held in Beijing, China and it is sole for this reason that the Organizers have emphatically stated that individual countries should attempt to send their best athletes to the Games.
Athletes will compete in five sporting disciplines – boxing, netball, tennis, track & field and volleyball and among those expected to be there are Jamaicans sprint stars Usain Bolt, Asafa Powell, Veronica Campbell-Brown, Shelly-Ann Fraser and Trinidadians Richard Thompson and Darrel Brown among others.
The Organisers have already promised that all the top athletes from the region will be at the Games, come July.
Sometime ago, Guyana Olympic Association (GOA) President K.A Juman Yassin disclosed that Guyana will be sending representatives in three disciplines (boxing, tennis and track & field), but with just over two months left, no word on the likely composition of any of the respective teams has been forthcoming.
Why should the selection of the respective teams remain shrouded in mystery even at this late stage? It is because there is no intention to pick local athletes.
These are the legitimate questions that need to be answered by those responsible for choosing members to represent Guyana in the three disciplines.
The selection of teams by certain sports officials seems to always leave latitude for critics to confront and question their sincerity and of course with merit.
Why can’t they just name a set of probable candidates and thereafter provide the best possible opportunities for them to qualify to make the Games eligibility guidelines.
Again, there appears to be no effort to select locally-based athletes who’re making the same if not more sacrifices than those based overseas.
Isn’t Rawle Greene, Alisha Fortune, Kelvin Johnson, Lionel D’Andrade, Phillip Squires, Shelly-Daly Ramdyhan, Cleavon Rock, all making the same sacrifice as those athletes abroad?
The Games will be held every four years in the year immediately following the Olympic Games.
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