-the need for electronic timing is becoming more evident as athletes produce unprecedented times
The en vogue topic in the track and field and even the wider sports community locally is the unbelievable performance of 9.90 seconds by local sprinter Rupert Perry achieved at the Guyana Defence Force ground, Camp Ayangana last Friday.
There, Perry reportedly broke the 10-second barrier, and if the times are legitimate, ran the fastest ever 100m by a Guyanese athlete. According to the official results, Perry also clocked 20 seconds flat in the 200m.
Those performances will not be accepted as Guyana’s national record because they were not achieved at an international meet where they would have technology in place to verify its validity. Guyana’s obsolete conditions, where the hand-timed system is still employed and where there is nothing in place to measure wind
