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Jun 04, 2011 Sports
Arguably Guyana’s most successful track athlete, Aliann Pompey, says that the Medal of Service Award that will be conferred on her at an official ceremony is personal after she has been sacrificing so much for the athletics community over the years.
Pompey was one of six sports personalities identified to be conferred with Medals of Service in a category that listed 57 persons from various backgrounds for the award. Pompey was among 133 persons totally, in four categories, to be named for an award.
“It means more than just the track and field community recognising my contributions. It mean (s) that something so personal to me, something that I have sacrificed so much for, that I’ve enjoyed doing for so many years, is a source of pride not just to me and my family, but to all Guyanese,” Pompey told Kaieteur Sport in a brief interview yesterday.
The specialist quarter-miler, 2002 National Sportswoman of the Year, two-time Commonwealth Games medallist and national record holder, said that she was not expecting such an Award, and as a result, she cannot help being overcome with sentiments.
“It wasn’t something that I expected, (I) and can’t help getting a bit sentimental over it,” Pompey indicated, adding that she deals with the present, and not the past, as such, she keeps the “lessons and lose the bitterness” as it relates to previous national oversights.
“I’d like to commend/congratulate the other recipients of the Medal of Service as well as the other national awards. I haven’t heard anything on the plans for an official ceremony, but I look forward to that as well,” she told this newspaper yesterday.
The other sports personalities listed included Bodybuilding world champion, Hugh Ross, Squash queen, Nicolette Fernandes, Cricketer, Ramnaresh Sarwan, Guyana’s only Olympic medallist to-date, Michael Parris (boxing) and Andrew ‘Six Head’ Lewis.
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