Kumar highlights Wilson in Parliament

Jan 27, 2011 Sports

By Edison Jefford

Director of Sport and People’s Progressive Party Member of Parliament, Neil Kumar highlighted distance athlete Doretta Wilson during his presentation that was part of the Parliamentary Budget Debate Tuesday evening after national allocations last Monday.
Reporting on some of the positive developments in sports, Kumar identified the National Schools and Junior Cross Country Champion as one of the focal points for the Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sport after talks with the Athletic Association of Guyana.
“I am delighted to report or to remind members of this Assembly of some development in sports. Doretta Wilson was the queen of the National Schools Golden Jubilee Championship. She sparkled as she defeated CARIFTA Games gold medallist, Jevina Straker and sent the crowd at the National Stadium at Providence wild as one of our indigenous daughters won that spectacular race,” Kumar pined-down in his robust presentation in Parliament.
“I am proud to disclose that I had discussions with the President of the athletic association, Colin Boyce and we will ensure that our indigenous daughter, Doretta Wilson, will be a member of our Inter-Guiana Games (IGG) athletic team and I am waiting for that proud moment when this dear Amerindian daughter will wrap herself in the Golden Arrowhead and as she receive her prize we will be singing the National Anthem,” Kumar indicated.
The Director of Sport and Boyce had discussed, as an aside, ways that the athlete can be assisted to further her career when they met at an IGG meeting last Wednesday. Since then the desperate need to help the athlete has garnered significant momentum, the last of which has been the voice of the Ministry of Amerindian Affairs, which indicated earlier this week a willingness to support the athlete in ways that it can through available programmes.
The major stakeholders were compelled to get involved on behalf of Wilson after learning of her unimaginable routine to pursue her outstanding athletic ability. Wilson, who resides at Achawuib in the Deep South of the Rupununi, travels some eight hours aback a dirt-bike every time she has to compete in Lethem or Georgetown.
The last of those sojourns was two Sunday’s ago when she competed at the Cross Country event in the National Park. She had indicated that she fell three times on the trail from Achawuib to the more centralised Lethem before she continued via air to Georgetown.
The conditions were obviously unfit for an athlete of Wilson’s reputation. The distance athlete is one of eight elite athletes that will represent the country at the North America, Central American and the Caribbean (NACAC) Cross Country Race in Trinidad next month.
Besides the remote location of Wilson’s village, other impediments facing the budding talent was an obvious lack of essential training and competition apparel, including footwear and an unstable nutritional tradition suitable for an athlete that will represent Guyana.

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