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Olympic road ends for Guyanese athlete
-no medals for Guyana
Guyana’s sprinters, Winston George, Aliann Pompey and Jeremy Bascom were unable to fulfill their dreams yesterday at the 2012 London Olympic Games when they took to the track in the 400 meters (George and Pompey) and 100 meters respectively.
George the only local qualifier for the Games was incapable of getting the best of the track in the Men’s 400 meters after chalking up a time of 46.86 seconds to finish fifth in heat six from lane 6.
Aliann Pompey
The Olympian who was drawn in the same heats with United States of America defending 400 meters Olympic champion, LaShawn Merritt, ran one second slower than his personal best time of 45.86 seconds which qualified him for the Games.
Merritt pulled up early in the heat and did not finish after suffering from a lower left hamstring strain he experience weeks ago in Monaco.
The heat was won by an Australian athlete, Steven Solomon in 45.18 seconds, a new personal best time for Solomon. Trinidad and Tobago’s athlete, Lalonde Gordon held on to his second place from a lane five run ahead of Great Britain’s Conrad Williams (46.12 seconds) in 45.43 seconds.
George recorded time in his preliminary round is ranked 38 of 47. The fastest time, 44.43 seconds was ran by Jonathan Borlee of Belgium.
Coach of George, Lyndon Wilson who is proud of his athlete despite the results, stated that George came out of the blocks too easy and that placed him at a greater disadvantage since he had to run from behind in attempt to close the gap.
Wilson further posted a status on one of the most used social networks, Facebook: “Guyana you all have to be proud of these athletes, they did their best, at no time did they come here (Olympics) for fun. They all wanted to do Guyana proud; just remember that there were 86 men in the 100m and 56 in the 400m and only 8 will make it to the final and only 3 will medal.”
International quarter-miler Pompey failed to go faster in the Women’s 400 meters finals after registering 52.58 seconds to finish eighth. Amantle Montsho and Francena McCorory battled to the line for a one-two finish in 50.15 seconds and 50.19 seconds.
The 28 years old 100 meters sprinter Jeremy Bascom was also unable to move to the next round after finishing sixth against a lineup of Yohan Blake (10.00 seconds), Ryota Yamagata (10.07 seconds), Bingtian Su (10.19 seconds) and
Winston George
Antoine Adams (10.22 seconds).
Bascom clocked 10.31 seconds after reacting to the gun in 0.135 seconds (fastest). He is also ranked at 34th. The US athletes, Ryan Bailey (9.88 seconds =PB) and Justin Gatlin (9.97 seconds) are on top of the rankings, Jamaica’s Yohan Blake is third.
Guyana concluded the 2012 London Olympics medal-less.
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