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Athletics team fortify CAC participation

Jul 13, 2010 Sports

– travel logistics only work to be done

By Edison Jefford

Guyana’s senior national track and field team has fortified participation at the Central American and Caribbean (CAC) Games, which will be held in Mayagüez, Puerto Rico from July 17-August 1, with the athletics competition scheduled to commence on July 24.
Speaking with Kaieteur Sport yesterday, athletics manager, Branford Burke indicated that all the necessary systems are in place to ensure that the track and field team participate at the event. Just some minor travel logistics are still be worked out.
“Everybody is on course to go, which is the last I heard. Everyone seems excited and pumped up. I spoke to Lee (Prowell) yesterday and he said he is ready. I am just putting together the last bits of flight details for him to travel down,” Burke revealed.
The athletics manager stated that the flight detail for Prowell has to be given to Deon Nurse, who is the Guyana’s Chef-de-Mission, for him to accommodate the arrival of the athlete. Burke said it was one of the only things that were still left to be done.
This newspaper understands that five of the seven athletes including the locally-based, Cleveland
Forde will arrive in San Juan on July 21 with two others expected to arrive two days later. Burke and Forde will travel through Trinidad and Tobago to San Juan.
It was revealed that the Local Organising Committee for the Games will transport them from the city of San Juan to Mayagüez. “We have to just get all this information to Nurse, who is already in Puerto Rico. We don’t have much else to do right now,” Burke said.
Asked about the procurement of the 50 percent funding that the Athletics Association of Guyana (AAG) was expected to find to cover the related expenses, the official informed that the Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sport has offered some amount of support.
“I know that the ministry is trying to help out some associations, I think they are going to help us with that aspect,” Burke indicated. The Guyana Olympic Association had offered half of the total amount that was necessary for the team to compete at the Games.
Puerto Rico will host the event for the third time in its history. San Juan had hosted the Games in 1966 and Ponce had hosted in 1993. Mayagüez had been previously selected to host the Games in 1982 but reported economic problems forced that event to La Habana, Cuba.

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