NATIONAL table tennis player Chelsea Edghill has departed for the Olympic Games in Tokyo which commences July 23 and ends on August 8
It is expected that Edghill, who was in the United States of America preparing, would have arrived in Tokyo yesterday along with coach Idi Lewis.
She is the first table tennis player from Guyana to qualify for an Olympic Games.

Edghill, who was granted a spot at the Games through the tripartite system, which only has two spots worldwide for table tennis, one male and female, had been in training at the Indian Community Centre in California fine-tuning her game ahead of the global showpiece.
Swimmers Aleka Persaud and Andrew Fowler are already in Tokyo for a preparation camp which ends on July 19. They are accompanied by coach Shyka Gonsalves.

Keevin Allicock (boxing), Jasmine Abrams (100m), Aliyah Abrams (400m), Emanuel Archibald (100m) are the other Guyanese athletes at the Olympic Games.
In total, seven athletes, five coaches and four officials will form Guyana’s delegation to the Olympic Games.
The contingent comprises mainly regular faces in national colours, with the newest addition being COVID-19 Liaison Officer/Physiotherapist, Angelica Holder.

Treasurer of the Guyana Olympic Association (GOA) Garfield Wiltshire has been designed Chef-de-Mission of Team Guyana and four-time Olympian Aliann Pompey will travel as the Athlete Representative at the Games.
As part of the COVID-19 measures implemented by Games’ organisers, Holder revealed all members of a delegation are required to download two Apps – Ocha and Cocoa.

The Ocha App is basically a health reporting App they will use to report their status every day and when they arrive in Tokyo, they will have to download the Cocoa App that everyone in the Olympic Village will be using via Bluetooth.”
The Cocoa App will record positive COVID-19 cases within the Olympic Village and notify persons who have been in close proximity to immediately isolate.