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Caribbean Life, O BQ CTOBER 25-31, 2019 55
By George Alleyne
Barbados has formulated a
five-year programme aimed
at earning the island another
Olympics medal by 2024, and
along the way picking up dozens
of similar awards at other
lesser competitions including
regional and age-limit games.
On that journey towards
the country’s second Olympics
medal, the possibility
of at least one Bajan athlete
scoring an upset placement
among the top three at the
Tokyo Olympics next year has
not been ruled out.
The Barbados Olympic
Association (BOA), the island’s
governing body for athletics,
said Tuesday it expects
to earn three medals at the
Commonwealth Youth Games
in 2021. In year 2022 it looks
to one medal at the Youth
Olympic Games; 20 at the Central
American and Caribbean
Games; and four at the Commonwealth
Games.
Then for 2023 the BOA
expects four medals at the Pan
Am Games based on the programme
being rolled out.
“We think that given where
we are now that this is an
ambitious target. But who
knows? We may be able to
meet it and even surpass it
and as I said there is no magic
to these numbers,” said BOA
president Sandra Osborne.
“We sat down, brainstormed
and we said based on what we
know about what has happened
in games before, these
are the types of numbers that
would be realistic for Barbados.”
The man tipped to spring
a surprise and lead the way
in surpassing the training
and fitness targets is Shane
Brathwaite who ratcheted up
a gold at this year’s Pan Am
games.
Though he managed only
sixth place in the World Championships
in Doha, Qatar last
month, Brathwaite has been
showing the type of world class
form that on the right day
could see him placing among
the top three in Japan.
Obadele Thompson accounted
for Barbados’ lone Olympics
medal by placing third in the
100 metres sprint in 2000 in
Australia. Shane Brathwaite, Barbados’ surprise weapon. Photo by George Alleyne
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