Olympic qualifier Winston George claimed his first athlete of the year award while Natasha Alder claimed her second when the Athletics Association of Guyana (AAG) annual awards ceremony concluded last Saturday night at the Young Men’s Christian Association building (YMCA), Thomas Lands.
George, who initially was thought to have missed out on qualification for the London, 2012 Olympics after clocking 45.86s at the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of America (ALBA) games saw his dream turn into a reality after the International Association of Athletic Federations (IAAF) released a revised qualifying standard for the event which stated that the ‘B’ class qualifying time for the 400 metres event had been lowered to 45.9s.
The revised IAAF time,
