Time at IAAF World Junior Championships should spark debate over whether Baird should run for Guyana in Olympics

By Stabroek News On In Sports |
Guyana’s Kadecia Baird, right looks up at the jumbotron to query her performance in the 400m at the World Junior Championships where she not only won a silver medal but clocked the `A’ qualifying standard for the London Olympics.
Guyana’s Kadecia Baird, right looks up at the jumbotron to query her performance in the 400m at the World Junior Championships where she not only won a silver medal but clocked the `A’ qualifying standard for the London Olympics.

Kadecia Baird is making a run at the Guyana Olympic team, though the odds are against her.
Baird, a rising senior at Medgar Evers high school, may not be running for her native country of Guyana in the London Olympics because of a technicality, but she proved on Friday that she probably should be.

In a dazzling performance that should further spark debate over whether she should be allowed to compete in London, Baird registered the fifth-fastest time in U.S. high school history in the 400 meters at the IAAF World Junior Championships in Barcelona, Spain, finishing second in 51.04 seconds.

That time exceeds the Olympic A standard qualifying time