Former national and Caribbean champion, US-elite and world-ranked table tennis player-turned-coach Idi Lewis is optimistic that should the state invest in providing sportsmen and women with their own homes, using revenue earned from oil and gas exploitation, local athletes would be a force to be reckoned with in the international arena.
“A lot of our elite athletes, myself included, never got to realise our true potential because of lack of exposure and financial support. That is one of the reasons I stopped playing,” Lewis said. “A lot of players before me and who came after me stopped because of the same reason. We lose to athletes who go all over the world to play but they are not better than us. They are just better prepared.”
