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Six athletes sure of CARIFTA participation
– AAG to update media today
Up to Kaieteur Sport press time last evening, the Athletics Association of
A representative of Chetsons (left) hands over the track pants for the athletes who will represent Guyana at the CARIFTA Games in Bermuda this weekend.
Guyana (AAG) was certain that six of the ten athletes who were named to represent Guyana at the 2012 CARIFTA Games will compete at the prestigious regional meet.
Details of the status of the team will be revealed today when the association hosts a briefing at Olympic House at 3:30pm. However, based on the availability of funding, this paper has learnt that four athletes may have to be omitted for the tour.
The CARIFTA Games gets underway in Bermuda on Friday with Guyana expected to depart on Thursday through Trinidad and Tobago on a chartered aircraft. The first option was to attend the meet via the United States but that plan has since changed.
According to sources close to the AAG, it is believed that the chartered route through Trinidad is much more economical, and feasible, than the US route. It is expected that full details will come out today as it relates to the logistics of Guyana’s participation.
But from what was reported before, the association was incurring US$1450 per person for airfare through the United States, while using Trinidad as a route is costing around US$1100; the change of travel plan is aimed at getting as much persons on the team.
This newspaper has learnt that Chavez Ageday (U-20 100m, 200m), Davin Fraser (U-20 100m), Tevin Garraway (U-17 100m, 200m), Stephan James (U-20 200m, 400m), Samuel Kaiton (U-20 5000m) and Andrea Foster (U-17 1500m, 3000m) are the six athletes who are certain that they will be competing in Bermuda.
Ageday, Fraser, James and Garraway made the qualifying standards at the AAG CARIFTA trials last month, while Kaiton and Foster were named because of Guyana’s deep history of producing medals in those distance events; they were also close to the qualifying standard along with Tirono Mitchelle, Letitia Myles and Shomaine Daniels.
The other qualifier, Timothy Fullington was not among those who are certain to compete. There will also be an update on the status of Fullington as a qualifier. All ten of the athletes had gotten US visas while uniforms were made for their full participation. (Edison Jefford)
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