By Rawle Toney in Birmingham
GUYANA’s cyclist at the Commonwealth Games, Christopher Griffith, had a horrid debut, when he finished 51st in the Men’s Time Trial event.
Going against some of cycling’s biggest names, Griffith was only competing Internationally for the second time and things certainly didn’t go according to plans.

A Time Trial riddled with falls, Griffith fell during his run, but managed to complete the 37km race in one hour, four minutes, 38.91 seconds (1:04.38.91s).
Australia’s talisman on the saddle, Rohan Dennis, clocked 46 minutes, 21.24s (46:21.24s) to take the Gold ahead of England’s Fred Wright (46:47.52s) and Wales’ Geraint Thomas (46:49.73s).

“Chris’ performance in the Time Trial was a bit underpar, maybe due to the early crash,” his Coach Shaun Green said.
Green pointed to Thomas and England’s Dan Bigham who also crashed during their runs on a course which he described as Technical.

“But when you come to a time trial on a road bike against big guns who are specialists and have all the high-end equipment, it’s very hard,” Green said.
Green said, taking into consideration that Time Trials are not ‘big’ in Guyana, he lauded Griffith’s performance.

SQUASH
Over in Squash, a valiant effort from Ashley Khalil and Mary Fung-A-Fat in the Round-of-16 Women’s Doubles, but they were beaten 0-2 by defending Championships New Zealand, represented by Joelle King and Amanda Landers-Murphy.

The Guyanese pair, playing on the beautiful ‘Show Court’ at the University of Birmingham, lost 3-11, 8-11.
Shomari Wiltshire and Jason-Ray Khalil, facing Sri Lankans Laksiri Ravindu and Wakeel Shamil in Men’s Round-of-32, also lost 0-2 (5-11, 6-11).
Squash will continue today with the quarter-finals of the Mixed Doubles Plate tournament.