By Orin Davidson
World Cup fever is spreading as the countdown to cricket’s biggest showdown is intensifying less than three weeks away from the 2024 T20 Championship
Guyana’s Providence Stadium, slated to host three games, will be under the world’s spotlight where West Indies’ quest to capitalize on its home advantage will begin against minnows Papua New Guinea.
It’s three games into the Indian Premier League (IPL), for Shamar Joseph’s Lucknow Super Giants and if one is surprised he’s not yet played, unless things change today in game four, it is a justifiable reaction.
Set aside for a moment the brilliance of Javon Roberts, Tianna Springer, Anisha Gibbons and the rest of the medal winning track athletes, Raekwon Noel’s blockbuster five-gold haul in swimming took the cake in an outstanding Easter weekend of exploits for young Guyanese athletes.
If it wasn’t an event as serious as the Presidential elections of the Guyana Olympics Association (GOA), one could easily dismiss the drama surrounding today’s ballot as this country’s equivalent to Comedy Central.
President of the Athletics Association of Guyana (AAG) Aubrey Hutson feels the lack of experience and technical support impacted the performances of the Guyana team at the World Athletics Championships here in Eugene, Oregon.
Aliyah Abrams failed in her quest to create history at the World Athletics Championships after she was eliminated from the women’s 400 metres in hot sultry conditions at Hayward Filed last evening.
As Aliyah Abrams gears up for probably the biggest race of her career today, she is receiving solid backing from retired professional athlete Marian Burnett.
Team coach Jeremy Bascom feels Aliyah Abrams has to bring out the warrior quality in her personality when she bids to reach the women’s 400 metres finals at the World Athletics Championships here in Eugene, Oregon.
Aliyah Abrams broke the ice for Guyana with a stirring run to book a semi-final place in the women’s 400 metres at the World Athletics Championships at Eugene, Oregon yesterday.
Jasmine Abrams was full of expectations in her first World Athletics Championships, but her appearance ended in disappointment last evening at Hayward Field at the spanking new stadium in Eugene, Oregon.
Facing some of the world’s best 100-metre sprinters didn’t faze Emanuel Archibald, who, however, completed a satisfying day’s work on Day One of the World Athletics Championships yesterday in Eugene, United States
“It was good for me and it shows what could happen when you exposed among the best,” said Archibald after a steep improvement in the heats after making it from the qualifying rounds earlier in the day.
We might never know whether the courage displayed by the Guyana Olympic Association’s membership (GOA) to oust its longest serving president ever, was natural or influenced.
Despite the good things said by Ricky Skerritt recently, searching questions remain following the rash of decisions made since the new Cricket West Indies (CWI) president assumed the helm.
As the high profile endorsements mount for his rival, amidst his invisible plans for the future and the bombshell ESPN Cricinfo expose’ on his expense indulgences, fans should be repulsed by the Guyana Cricket Board’s continued slavish support for the Cricket West Indies (CWI) incumbent president Dave Cameron.