THE Guyana Olympic Association (GOA)’s new strategic developmental and operational plan for 2024-2032 is moving ahead, according to President of the National Olympic Committee Godfrey Munroe.
Munroe says they had consultation with the Olympic Committee’s executives, national federations and sections of the media fraternity.

He noted that the sports management consultant Laurent Torrecillas will now seek to engage with the Government of Guyana as well as coaches with a view to presenting its findings to the Olympic body as they move closer to formulating a plan.
“There is a meeting scheduled with the coaches, a further meeting with some other members of the media, one earmarked with the Minister of Sport Charles Ramson (Jnr) to basically encapsulate all the stakeholders because they are part of the eco-system, and we can’t make a plan in isolation. We should be concluding that process within another two weeks,” Munroe said.

The GOA head says that the international consultant will then visit Guyana between the end of September and October to present his findings. “Then we go to the next stage, which is identifying common situations, identifying more detail commonality and strategic direction and what approach the Association should be adapting… Then we will be looking at advancing the plan further, in terms of the policy we want to adopt, and then moving into the operational side of things,” he said.
The former national player said that ongoing engagements with the national sporting bodies catered on their operation to training and prepare athletes. “What type of athletes, type of competition structures,
administration, facilities, budget, what they have planned, elite athletes, development structure, level of top athletes and the type of coaching intervention is needed, what are their plan and weakness they have and the impact on the sport,” he explained.

Munroe, who also heads the Guyana Table Tennis Association, says this plan will provide a guide for their support to national bodies, and offer insight as to their internal structure, and how it can be improved.
At the last Olympic Games in Paris, Guyana fielded five athletes, namely: Aliyah Abrams, Emanuel Archibald, Raekwon Noel, Aleka Persaud and Chelsea Edghill, with none of them moving on to the second round in their respective sports discipline.

Guyana, which has fielded teams for decades at the Olympic Games, has one Olympic bronze medal by way of boxer Michael Paris at the 1980 games.
The executive committee says they got funding from the International Olympic Committee (IOC), through Olympic Solidarity, to recruit the expert, Laurent Torrecillas to assist the GOA with developing the document.