GUYANA’S Olympians, Aleka Persaud and Chelsea Edghill, are currently engaged in high level training camps at the Mulhouse University High Performance Center in Mulhouse France.
The camps are intended to get the elite athletes acclimatise to French conditions and intensify preparations ahead of the Paris Summer Olympic Games set for July 26 to August 11.

The nation’s top swimmer Persaud and top female table tennis player Edghill are joined by their respective coaches Sean Baksh and Idi Lewis in Eastern France.

National swim coach Sean Baksh speaking to Chronicle Sport says it’s a world-class venue. ‘Aleka is adjusting; these facilities here are fantastic; they have everything you can think about; you have cryotherapy, massage, everything for recovery and enhancement. Cryotherapy happens in a cold chamber of minus 30 degrees Celsius, which serves to relieve muscle discomfort and injuries and improves circulation’.

Baksh added that they have what is necessary for further improvements ‘The pools are fantastic; we have two pools that we are using, 50 metre pools that is and everything is fine and she is adjusting
quite nicely and moving forward her training is going really well.’

The athletes’ time in Mulhouse was arranged by Panam Sports to aid their efforts and fine tune their performances at the games in European conditions.
The camp saw PANAM Sports President, Neven Ilic, who is responsible for athletes in the Americas, visiting the camp to assess facilities and interact with the budding athletes and Olympians on Tuesday.
The Mulhouse training camp commenced from July 14 and will conclude on 21, 2024 for Table Tennis and Swimming.

The organiaers will host a similar camp from July 22nd – 29th, 2024 for Athletics.
Emanuel Archibald will join the Mulhouse training camp from July 24th 2024.

Meanwhile, Archibald, a CAC games Gold medalist and Panam Bronze medalist is continuing his training regimen in Stuttgart Germany with the Swept Track Club led by his coach Okeile Stewart.
He said that “Today (Tuesday) was good for me, just getting in reps” as he fine-tunes training for the 2024 Paris Olympic Games.
The training which commenced last Saturday was facilitated by the Jamaican Administrative Athletic Association, Coach Okeile Stewart and the Guyana Olympic Association.