We are now in the month of May 2020. This would have been the month in which we celebrate the annual TASVG Wendell Hercules Open Championships and acknowledge the importance of our sport to the holistic development of Vincentian youth. Instead, we are suffering under the world’s most recent plague, the COVID-19 pandemic, that has forced us all to re-think on who we are and what we are about.
From the Desk of the President
Team Athletics St Vincent and the Grenadines (TASVG) joins the Christian world in celebrating Easter, the Resurrection of Jesus Christ, our Lord and Saviour.
Team Athletics St Vincent and the Grenadines (TASVG) is today, 7 April 2020, paying homage to the healthcare workers/providers of our blessed country, St Vincent and the Grenadines, and the entire global community, as we all observe World Health Day.
Team Athletics St. Vincent and the Grenadines (TASVG) eagerly joins the rest of the world in observing today, 6 April 2020, as the International Day of Sport for Development and Peace (IDSDP), a designation made by the United Nations at its General Assembly of 2013 by Resolution A/RES/67/296. Since then the IDSDP has been observed globally, every year.
As we begin the month of April we strive to engender confidence and hope in all of our athletes that we are hopeful for the passing of the COVID-19 pandemic and that they would all be spared its ravages.
Today’s joint statement made to the world by the President of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and Japanese Prime Minister, Shinzo Abe, that it has decided to postpone the Summer Olympics originally scheduled for this year to 2021, has come as welcome news to athletes and coaches of our sport of athletics around the world.