St Vincent and the Grenadines does not possess a synthetic track. The implications of this fact for athletes desirous of becoming sprinters are numerous. Coaches must know the long list of challenges they face in seeking to produce world class sprinters utilising only grassed surfaces. It is therefore rather interesting to find so many of […]
In the previous edition of this Column, dated Friday 1 September 2017, we addressed the matter of the options available to us if we are serious about getting a synthetic surface in place and eventually provide Vincentians with a grand national stadium. Many have been discussing the issues raised in last week’s Column if only […]
St Vincent and the Grenadines remains one of the few countries in the Caribbean that does not yet possess a national stadium. Indeed, in the region, it is now commonplace that a country should be have a national stadium in so far as athletics and football are concerned. Of course, for many years we have […]
The entire Caribbean is still trying to recover from the devastating defeat of the West Indies team in the first test against Edgbaston, England. It is not an easy thing for Caribbean people to accept the kind of humiliation visited upon the regional team by the cricketing representatives of the former colonialists in the recent […]
The curtains came down on the International Association of Athletics Federations’ (IAAF) World Championships in London, England, on Sunday last, with the usual massive crowd in attendance bidding official farewell to both Usain Bolt and Mo Farah. In the previous Column we addressed the fact that they left active competition in different styles but their […]
The International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) biennial World Championships in London, United Kingdom, was promoted around the end of the careers of Britain’s Mo Farah and Jamaica’s Usain Bolt. Of course, given his outstanding achievements over the past nine years it was Bolt that received more of the attention. After all, it is […]
The latest edition of the Windward Islands School Games (WISG) has ended and the delegations are back to their respective homes. Importantly however, we must look to the future of these Games and the implications for us in the sub region.
Tomorrow the curtains come down on the annual Windward Islands Schools Games (WISG) hosted here in St Vincent and the Grenadines. For the local team the results were very mixed and so the sport-loving Vincentian public the usual response can be expected. Many are disappointed at the fact that even while playing host we do […]
Teams from Dominica, Grenada and St Lucia, arrive in St Vincent and the Grenadines today to join the host in the annual WINLOTT Windward Islands Schools Games (WISG2017). This country would be hosting the mega sporting event starting tomorrow through to 29 July with the visitors leaving the following day, 30 July. There is one […]
Carnival 2015 is finished. The pundits will once more determine in their own way the outcome. One thing is certain, it was not like the days of old and there was no spirit to speak about. This week we return to the thorny issue of our sports facilities, the Arnos Vale Sports Complex in particular, […]