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Fraser disappointed in AAG
By Samuel White
There seems to be some amount of suspicion in the athletics arena as the parents of rejected athlete, Curtis Fraser-the 16-year old Junior Carifta Games hopeful, are up in arms over the treatment of their son by the Athletics Association of Guyana (AAG), and more so the President of the association, Colin Boyce.
Fraser was unceremoniously stopped from boarding a plane bound for the prestigious games, which was held in the Cayman Islands. A fuming Lance Fraser recently said his son was treated like a ‘no body’.
“I am very angry that a person like Boyce, a former national athlete and disciplinary officer, could behave in such a manner, and to make matters worst, he try to cover up by spewing a volley of lies and fool the youth that he will get him on a plane the next day,” Fraser said. Fraser said that this new body which came into being with a lot of promise is quickly falling into place like its predecessors, and most other sporting organisations in Guyana, where things reek of incompetence.
The man who spoke to Kaieteur Sport at his New Amsterdam home said that he feels that his son was rejected because he is a Berbician and the behaviour is just a long and continuing episode of such behaviours that has been meted out to athletes from the ‘countryside’.
Giving credence to his claims, Fraser who once represented Police Sports Club and New Amsterdam in athletics, said that at the last National school Athletics Championship, his son broke the record and they did not accredit the achievement to him citing some technical difficulty.
“Last Year they wanted two athletes, my son won the 100m trials and lost in the 200m, but they sent the other guy only. If that is not incompetence, favouritism and or insularity, then something must be wrong somewhere.” He said that the lad’s mother, who resides overseas, and other overseas based relatives had promised to pay for him to attend the games if finance would have been a difficulty. However they were told that there were no financial difficulties.
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