-2024 Paris summer Olympic games

AFTER an extravagant opening ceremony, the real action begins for Guyana’s athletes at the quadrennial games today in Paris, France.
Guyana will be represented in three disciplines, namely swimming, table tennis and athletics.
Table tennis ace Chelsea Edghill will seek to advance in the women singles.

Coached by Idi Lewis, she will be hoping to take her first win in the main draw after an impressive outing at the last Olympic games in Tokyo where she claimed a win in preliminary round.
her first taste of action will be against Cameron’s Sarah Hanffou at 9:00hrs local time.
The country’s swimmers are Aleka Persaud and Raekwon Noel.

Two-time Olympian Persaud will be in the women’s 100 freestyle while top male land shark Raekwon Noel is set to compete in the Men’s 400 metres freestyle later today.
Persaud had a dream start to her Olympic career in Tokyo winning her heat and will now be seeking to be the first to reach the semifinal in the ultra-competitive women’s 100-metre freestyle on Tuesday July 30th.
The swimmers will be guided by coaches Sean Baksh and Peter Holcroft.

While in track and field, Aliyah Abrams in the women 400 metres and Emanuel Archibald in the 100 metres will run for their country.
CAC gold medalist Archibald took second place in the qualifying round of his men’s 100 metres at the last games with a run of 10.41 seconds to advance to the main draw.
He however failed to qualify for the semi-final of his 100 and will now be aiming to put in an improved performance at these summer games.
He has already produced a new personal best of 10.09 seconds this year.

Meantime, 3-time Olympian Abrams who made it into the semi-final with a blistering 51.44 seconds at the last games in Japan is also hoping to reach the finals after having a stellar year with a personal best of 50.20 in May in Bahamas.
The women’s 400 metres heats are set for August 5 and the final on the 7th with the men’s 100 metres preliminary round and heats is on the August 3rd of August and the final on the August 4.
Archibald will hit the blocks at 11.55hrs next Saturday and Abrams will line up at 11:50hrs local time on August 5 in their respective opening races.
The track stars will be guided by Coach Mark Scott.

The other members of the Guyana Delegation are Chef de Mission – Garfield Wiltshire, Team attaché– Nalini McCoy and Physiotherapist – Vanessa Wickham.
The GOA executive members also at the games are President Godfrey Munroe, Secretary General – Vidushi Persaud – McKinnon and Vice President’s – Steve Ninvalle and Cristy Campbell.