The Guyana Amateur Swimming Association (GASA) is considering the prospect of hosting a ‘Guyana Open’ regional swim meet next year, when the Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sport (MCYS) $455 million Olympic-size swimming pool is completed.
According to GASA President Philip Walcott, the body’s technical committee in charge of coordinating the list of events for 2011 is hopeful about hosting the event come July next year, but he observed that this is completely dependant on the completion and availability of the 50m pool.
Moreover, Walcott said, the lack of a warm-up/warm- down pool at the facility will also play its part in whether the meet will actually come off or not.
“Permitting that the pool is completed, the real challenge will be that there is no warm-down pool at the facility, you can’t have an effective international meet unless you have a warm-up/warm-down pool. So if we’re really going to have an international meet that will have to be addressed – that is for the new executive to address,” said Walcott, whose tenure as president will come to a close on December 31.
Walcott noted that with his term coming to an end,
