GUYANA’S Olympic boxer, Mike Parris, lost in the semi-finals of the 1980 Olympics on a cold night on August 6, in Moscow, Russia.
The Bronze medal remains the only Olympic medal won by Guyana and the lone medal in boxing for the English-speaking Caribbean.
A fitness walk is planned for this morning at 07.00hrs starting at the Bank of Guyana to the Sea Wall Band Stand via Main Street, and the public is invited to the walk.
The next Olympics will be held in Los Angeles 1n 2028, and it will be 48 years since Guyana won a medal at the Olympics.
This is a remarkable achievement by the diminutive Parris, a taxi driver and part-time boxing coach.
The 67-year-old Parris fought in 48 Amateur bouts between 1972 and 1982 before turning ‘Pro’.
A bust was erected to honour his 1980 feat at the corner of North Road and Shiv Chanderpaul Drive.
But it is hoped that whichever Government assumes office on September 2 will give the pensioner something more tangible in his old age for service to his country as a Sporting Ambassador.