FOLLOWING the completion of the sixth annual ‘Ride for Life’, Guyana’s senior cycling team, without Alonzo Greaves and Robin Persaud, will leave these shores this morning for Antigua where they will be competing in the Caribbean Elite Cycling Championships.

Greaves opted out of the meeting citing a conflict with Persaud who for personal reasons withdrew himself from the team, leaving Geron Williams, Enzo Matthews, Rastaff O’Selmo and Orville Hinds, to carry the Golden Arrowhead over the next two days in Antigua.
The same quartet along with Persaud made up Team Guyana which competed poorly in the ‘Ride for Life’, a five-stage cycling event that was won by Team Coco’s Jaime Ramirez in a record-breaking time of 9h.46m:51secs.
O’Selmo finished at number 11 in the same event, after sitting comfortably in the top six at the start of the final stage, but with Matthews, Williams and Hinds beginning to show the signs of riding as a team, the Guyana Cycling Federation should have much to shout about on their return.
There is also a female team comprising Hazina Barrett, Naomi Singh and the United Kingdom-based Claire Fraser-Greene, who will depart these shores this morning as well, under the guidance of coach Wayne De Abreu and manager William Howard.