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Oct 07, 2011 Sports

 

 

Dear Editor,
Amidst a fanfare and the usual feel-good chirping, the Director of Sports, the Hon. Neil Kumar., MP, has announced the holding of another Ride for Life; this once again from Skeldon and along the familiar route to Georgetown, Linden and Essequibo.
I had earlier remarked of its monotony and disregard of human life in a letter to the Stabroek News, after the completion of last year’s ‘Derby’, whereupon its organizers had with the same daftness, talked of a $200,000 first prize, but for reasons which appear shrouded in mystery, said nothing whatsoever, this time around, about the money budgeted for this year’s 5-stage event, much of which would again fall neatly into other people’s pockets.  The transporters [road and water] would have been the principal beneficiaries of this state largesse.
A properly thought-out classic would have enabled the people of the nation’s capital to see several of the cyclists, who would have figured so prominently in this sport through the year. They, the cyclists, ought to have wheeled around Main Street before setting off, after being medically certified as fit by a panel physician in the days preceding the event.
Punitive restrictions on parking along the routes to minimize the risk to cyclists being brought down by vehicle doors, parked tractors, heavy equipments and stray animals.
Look at the absurdity of Main Street New Amsterdam; Bush Lot West Coast Berbice, Grove East Bank Demerara and innumerable other places where absolutely no advanced warning was given or a single banner being posted anywhere!
The newly installed President of the Guyana Cycling Federation might enlighten us as to how many ambulances and what complement of aides and equipment would be there in support, during four days of racing.
Of course while the Director of Sports ‘working hard perennially’, cyclists still had to contend, almost wistfully with lousy meals; hardly any fit place to wash-up, change and relax between stages except beneath hotels’ co-mingling with laundry and sewerage pipes.
‘Hard Working’ Mr. Kumar might well be invited to say why the participants could not repair to the Bermine Recreation Hall with its ample space and swimming pool, along the New Amsterdam Esplanade, at the end of the Skeldon to New Amsterdam stage.
NICIL has had it up for sale, for three years now, even though there is nothing comparable, in Berbice!
Comrade Editor, cyclists will get nothing from this coterie of individuals. Thus it has been, and thus it will be while these names officiate.
Lloyd Williams

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