The sky is the limit for Kevin Sinclair
Kevin Sinclair is different to the contemporary West Indian cricketer in more ways than one.
Kevin Sinclair is different to the contemporary West Indian cricketer in more ways than one.
You’ll have to roll back the years through decades of West Indies cricket for a similar feel -good.
Set aside for a moment the brilliance of Javon Roberts, Tianna Springer, Anisha Gibbons and the rest of the medal winning track athletes, Raekwon Noel’s blockbuster five-gold haul in swimming took the cake in an outstanding Easter weekend of exploits for young Guyanese athletes.
If it wasn’t an event as serious as the Presidential elections of the Guyana Olympics Association (GOA), one could easily dismiss the drama surrounding today’s ballot as this country’s equivalent to Comedy Central.
President of the Athletics Association of Guyana (AAG) Aubrey Hutson feels the lack of experience and technical support impacted the performances of the Guyana team at the World Athletics Championships here in Eugene, Oregon.
Aliyah Abrams failed in her quest to create history at the World Athletics Championships after she was eliminated from the women’s 400 metres in hot sultry conditions at Hayward Filed last evening.
As Aliyah Abrams gears up for probably the biggest race of her career today, she is receiving solid backing from retired professional athlete Marian Burnett.
Team coach Jeremy Bascom feels Aliyah Abrams has to bring out the warrior quality in her personality when she bids to reach the women’s 400 metres finals at the World Athletics Championships here in Eugene, Oregon.
Aliyah Abrams broke the ice for Guyana with a stirring run to book a semi-final place in the women’s 400 metres at the World Athletics Championships at Eugene, Oregon yesterday.
Jasmine Abrams was full of expectations in her first World Athletics Championships, but her appearance ended in disappointment last evening at Hayward Field at the spanking new stadium in Eugene, Oregon.
Facing some of the world’s best 100-metre sprinters didn’t faze Emanuel Archibald, who, however, completed a satisfying day’s work on Day One of the World Athletics Championships yesterday in Eugene, United States “It was good for me and it shows what could happen when you exposed among the best,” said Archibald after a steep improvement in the heats after making it from the qualifying rounds earlier in the day.
It’s not one or two, but a multitude of reasons why Phil Simmons should be relieved of his misery and be replaced at the helm of the West Indies team.
We might never know whether the courage displayed by the Guyana Olympic Association’s membership (GOA) to oust its longest serving president ever, was natural or influenced.
By Orin Davidson in New York Partisan support in sport is a given in almost every country where it exits.
Despite the good things said by Ricky Skerritt recently, searching questions remain following the rash of decisions made since the new Cricket West Indies (CWI) president assumed the helm.
As the high profile endorsements mount for his rival, amidst his invisible plans for the future and the bombshell ESPN Cricinfo expose’ on his expense indulgences, fans should be repulsed by the Guyana Cricket Board’s continued slavish support for the Cricket West Indies (CWI) incumbent president Dave Cameron.
All Guyana is seemingly gaga over the Junior CARIFTA Games team and justifiably so.
As Jason Holder tried to explain away the latest humiliation inflicted on West Indies this week at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport’s VIP lounge, the elephant in room no one seemed to notice was Whycliff “Dave” Cameron’s ego.
If West Indies is serious about progressing further in the T20 cricket World Cup its management has to don a thinking cap.
It might not be the most important decision he will make in football but newly-elected Guyana Football Federation (GFF) president Wayne Forde has a crucial ballot to cast in Zurich, Switzerland, tomorrow.
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