We are now in the month of July. It seems like such a very long time that we have not had the pleasure of engaging in the numerous planned competition and training activities. Happily, we have not been idle. Several of our coaches have been holding sessions with small groups of athletes while adhering to the health protocols. We have also had some Mini Meets at Sion Hill.
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Arthur Wint is part of an amazing array of Jamaican and Caribbean sporting, but more particularly, athletics talent that shook the world at the Summer Olympics in London, UK, in 1948.
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.
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.
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.
In this unprecedented crisis we are all united.
Like you, we are very much concerned about what the COVID-19 pandemic is doing to people’s lives. Human lives take precedence over everything, including the staging of the Games. The IOC wants to be part of the solution. Therefore we have made it our leading principle to safeguard the health of everyone involved, and to contribute to containing the virus. I would like to assure you that we will adhere to this in all our decisions concerning the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020.