– Hutson says Road to Rio still a work in progress
President of the Athletics Association of Guyana (AAG) Aubrey Hutson believes that 2014 will be a better year for athletics.
“The essence of athletics is competition, we are going to have two national seniors this year to make up for 2013 but we are still working on the calendar, we are still to meet with the coaches to make sure they agree and approve of the calendar,” he said in a telephone interview with Guyana Times International Sport.
“We have a lot of stuff planned; my word to the athletes would be to continue to train hard because the competitions are going to come.
“There is going to be a lot of work this year and we are looking at beefing up our field events, especially after Inter Guiana Games (IGG) last year…so we are looking to see how best we can make the field events attractive,” Hutson told this publication.
Jumping standards
He noted that jumping standards for the high jump are currently on the way to Guyana from the USA, while the AAG will be looking to modify the Young Men’s Christian Association (YMCA) long jump pit.
During the telephone interview, Hutson touched on the reason for the incomplete Road to Rio plan for the Summer Olympics.
“To put a plan out there in isolation is not what we want to do; we just don’t need to put a plan out because people want a plan, what we are doing right now is that we are going through the methodology of the plan.
“We are looking at what we want to be achieved and pointing out who we believe can achieve them and get there, but it’s not a case that we are not working on something.
“We want the plan to be firm and to last so that it can be tested every six months to find progress and make changes if we need to,” Hutson said.
Meanwhile, as it is midway through the first month of 2014, the first competition of the AAG is slated for January 29 as a cross country event before heading into the developmental meets during February.
