The 2012 London Olympics is over and the Guyana team is back home following a sub-par showing at the 30th edition of the prestigious games.
The small team returned to home soil Monday evening around 22:00hrs after an uneventful and unimpressive showing at the World’s largest sporting event.
Guyana, unlike a few of its Caricom sister countries, failed to medal at the event leaving the bronze medal won by Michael Parris at the 1980 Moscow Olympic Games as this country’s only medal at the Olympics.
However, the Caribbean Community, which was established by the Treaty of Chaguramas on July 4, 1973, could look to the success of Jamaica which ended with four gold medals and Trinidad which ended with one, and hope that some day a unified Caribbean team could compete at the Olympics.
Jamaican Usain Bolt created history as the first man to repeat a sprint double while Trinidadian Keshorn Walcott landed the Caribbean’s first Javelin gold medal.
Guyana’s athletes were unable to record such achievements and in fact, only one of the six athletes that participated in the games made it past the first round of their event.
That athlete was none other than the experienced two-time 400 metres Commonwealth medalist Aliann Pompey.
Pompey outdid her teammates by reaching the semi-finals of the 400m event.
None of the other athletes recorded personal best times while Judoka Raul Lall lost very early in his first fight.
Contacted for a comment on the team’s performance Guyana Olympic Association (GOA) officials told Stabroek Sport that a press conference will be held on Saturday to address the team’s performance in London.
