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Aug 05, 2014 Sports
– Local girls lose basketball title, males stumble
Despite the absence of French Guiana from the Athletics competition of the first leg of the 2014 Inter-Guiana Games (IGG), which deflated the event that Guyana hosted over last weekend, the ‘Land of Many Waters’ washed its opposition away.
Again, athletics was the catalyst for Guyana being declared winner in the first stage of the IGG event, which was hosted at the Guyana Defence Force (Athletics), National Aquatics Centre for Swimming and the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall.
Guyana won the truncated athletics event, placed second in male and female basketball and third in swimming, to take the overall lead in the tri-nation competition. Suriname is currently second with French Guiana third after their non-participation in athletics.
Suriname won the male basketball title, dashing Guyana’s hope of reclaiming history, while the national junior girls, who won last year, lost to French Guiana Sunday night. Both French Guiana and Suriname were also dominant in the swimming competition.
Permanent Secretary within the Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sports, Alfred King, who was the representative of the Minister, Dr. Frank Anthony, officially closed the event with the Director of Sport, Neil Kumar chairing the Closing Ceremony.
Kumar believes that Guyana successfully hosted the first stage because of the re-entrance of the French Guiana contingent, which did not participate last year, to the games. Kumar commended his “hard working” committee for putting together a “successful programme”.
“This first stage of Inter-Guiana Games was indeed a success. It was highly successful because we got all three countries participating in the Games, I want to say to French Guiana once again thank you for participating this year,” Kumar observed.
Suriname’s Director of Sports, Ismanto Tiana shared Kumar’s sentiments, reiterating that IGG was successfully hosted. The second stage of the Games will be held in Suriname. According to Tiana, athletic stardom for the ‘Guianas’ begin with the Games.
“No matter what your target is, you can only reach it step by step, so you got to make sure that in your own country first, you are the best. If you are the best in your own country then you can [be the best] in the region,” Tiana said.
“When you are the best it in the region then you can be the best in the world. So the Inter-Guiana Games is that step in showing that you can compete in the region and compete in the world. I can tell you that the future of the Inter-Guiana Games looks good,” Tiana added.
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