If president of the Guyana Olympic Association (GOA), K Juman-Yassin had one New Year’s wish, it would be the realization of local athletes and coaches becoming full-time paid professionals.
“I would like to see an approach being made whereby our athletes could be professionals or semi-professionals to start with. Our coaches should become professionals. We cannot expect to be successful and to win if our athletes have to work and then train in the afternoon, we cannot go anywhere with that.”
Juman-Yassin made the comments in the presence of the media,