IT ALL COMES down to this the final day of competition in the annual Inter-Service Athletics Championships which will culminate at the Guyana Defence Force’s, Camp Ayanganna-based ground from 14:00hrs today, with the march past of all participating teams.

The Guyana Defence Force hold a one-point advantage (295) over the Guyana Police Force – the defending champions, with the Guyana Fire Service, (38), City Constabulary (37) and Prison Service (26) all out of the reckoning, even as the

winners hold bragging rights for one year.
The events to watch are the 100m and 200m sprints, while the 400m male final is an academic race, as no athlete is expected to seriously challenge Olympian and national 400m champion Winston George for the title.
He will, however, be tested in the 200m final, even though he recorded the second fastest time on Wednesday’s penultimate day of action, heading into today’s final.
Army athlete Davin Fraser clocked 20.7 seconds on the way to victory in the second heat, while other athletes who must be keenly watched in this event are former junior champion Keith Roberts and Shawn Semple, all of the GPF, and the GDF duo in Akeem Stewart and Patrick King.
George will have to watch the 100m final from the side-line as he was disqualified on Tuesday for a false start. The ladies 100m and 200m sprints should also be interesting – virtually the same athletes will face the pistol.
Aniqua Powley leads the GDF team of Tiffany Smith and Neisha Allen – a formidable trio – against Onika Eastman, Tiffany Carto and Akeila Alves of GPF, with both Powley and Eastman stopping the clock at 11.90 seconds, on the way to winning their respective heats.
Carto, however, leads the GPF’s 200m team, winning her heat in 24.6 seconds, two hundredths of a second slower than Myles.
Also to feature today are the 1500m middle distance events, where Cleveland Forde (5000m) champion would be hoping to exact revenge on Kevin Bayley who ran away with the 800m on Wednesday, while Janella Jonas is expected to come up against Carlissa Atkinson.
Jonas comfortably defeated Atkinson in the 800m two days ago and holds in addition to size and strength, the psychological advantage. The day’s track action ends with the much anticipated 4x400m and 4x100m relays.