More money needed for sports development

Sep 22, 2016 Letters

Dear Editor,
The Olympic Games in many ways are to unite countries from all angles, learning about different cultures, customs, promoting peace, unity, bridging the gap between nations and the founder ‘Pierre De Coubertin’ saw it as an avenue to assembling political enemies under one roof or bringing political enemies together…
This is apart from medalling. One’s participation is on the same level with athletes who attains a medal.
So whether anyone qualifies with a ‘B’ standard timing, selected for a wild card entry etc, those are also accomplishments in their own right which we should learn to appreciate. There are many contributing factors for any country to make it on the medals list and in my opinion, Guyana is far from that task. It is rather un-fair for anyone to blame solely the head of the current GOA for Guyana’s failure to medal at the just concluded Rio 2016 Olympic Games..
Perhaps the government of the day can consider allowing the Sports Ministry to once again have its independent office and have 5 billion dollars for sports as a start during the 2017 Budget. This will be added to what is available from all other sports fraternities that receive funding from overseas towards 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games.
T.Pemberton

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