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SUNDAY CHRONICLE June 14, 2015
GKC heightens preparation for …team hoping to better IDK world Cup 2014 performance By Stephan Sookram
KARATEKAS from the Guyana Karate College (GKC) are putting in the hours ahead of the International Karate Diagaku World Cup in Toronto Canada later this month. Chronicle Sport paid a visit to the club’s Dojo at the Carfiesta Sport Complex last Friday evening where the athletes could be seen going through their paces. Senior Instructor of the GKC, Sensei Jeffrey Wong, indicated that the sessions are heating up ahead of the World Cup. “We are coming up very sharply; I’m very surprised with the junior and the senior teams; they are very excited and very pumped up ahead of the championship. Intense training both
mentally and physically is what I am preparing them for now and hopefully everything goes well. As you know we’ve been preparing for the tournament over the last four to five months and its going to be very successful for the IKD.” Sensei Wong added that this year, he is looking for the top honours and doesn’t feel that second place will cut it “Last world cup as you know we got second place and we got second with 23 medals but we were short (of first place) by about seven or eight medals. Right now we have more students taking part so we hope to cop those extra places to secure first place.” He indicated too that the team will have to undergo a final
tuning by head of the International Karate Diagaku Sensei Frank Woon-A-Tai when he arrives on June 20. “What we are doing on Saturday and Sunday is special training because we don’t have a lot of time and this is a world tournament so we have got to train hard. That would help us to maintain our standard and to improve our techniques.” The senior instructor lauded the support from parents and guardians who continue to stand behind their children for the championships. “We are getting a lot of support from the parents. Majority are going to the world cup in Canada to support their kids and we are very pleased with the response from the parents.” The 2nd IKD World Cup and camp will take place in Toronto, Ontario, Canada from July 15-19 and will feature karatekas from North America and the Caribbean.
Local cyclists continue to create waves in the USA
Sensei Jeffrey Wong poses with his students in the presence of their parents.
Singh surprised after receiving Lifetime Award By Rajiv Bisnauth FORMER Guyana Cricket Board president and WICB director, Chetram Singh, says he is surprised at the decision by the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) to present him with a Lifetime Achievement Award. The Award was presented to Singh during the recent joint WICB/West Indies Players Association (WIPA) awards ceremony held in exquisite settings in the Grand Jamaica Suite at the Jamaica Pegasus last Tuesday evening. “It was a great honour,” said the veteran administrator. “I wasn’t expecting anything like that. I don’t know how deserving I was of it. Anyway, I was very happy to receive the award. Those awards were never there before, so when it came up you are more surprise that you have been offered it,” Singh told Guyana Chronicle Sport on Saturday. The event, hosted jointly by both entities for the third year, awarded cricketers who have performed exceptionally well at both the regional
and international levels during the year of 2014. Among the 12 awards handed out were two lifetime achievement awards,
Former GBC president Chetram Singh which saw Renford Pinnock receive the other award.
STEWARDSHIP Singh was a fixture in regional cricket since taking over from Major General (ret’d) Norman McLean as GCB president in 1991, and has become the longest serving WICB director. Under his stewardship, Guyana won six consecutive regional Under-19 titles, and he also oversaw the emergence of Shivnarine Chanderpaul and Ramnaresh Sarwan as leading Test figures. The senior team also won five limited-over titles and one first-class championship. However, prior to his departure, Singh had been forced to deal with serious internal wrangling in the GCB. He was expected to step down in 2009 but was encouraged to stay on because of the region’s hosting of the World Twenty20 Championship, and subsequently defeating Bish Panday in GCB elections. Despite this, one of the highpoints of that year for Singh was the opening of the Chetram Singh Centre of Excellence, an indoor practice facility and hostel just outside the city.
LOCAL cyclists currently based in the United States of America, seeking to enhance their cycling career, continue to create waves on the American circuit. According to the Guyana Cycle News website, last Thursday, Scott Savory continued his excellent season by claiming yet another victory, this time at the UNITED’S RUBAIX RACE SERIES. Other Guyanese riders Alonzo Greaves finished third while Geron Williams placed sixth, and Hamzah Eastman finished seventh. The quartet which was down to contest the US Air Force Association Cycling Classic Clarendon Cup, yesterday, was headed by Williams of Champion System - Stans NoTubes and Savory of Lupus Racing Team. The event is part of USA Cycling’s National Criterium Calendar, and has been the Washington DC region’s premier Pro/Am races since 1998. The Clarendon Cup is known as one of the most difficult criterium races in the USA, due to technical demands of the course and the quality of the participants and with some strong winds or high temperatures, the difficulty goes off the chart. The 1km course which is located in the heart of Arlington’s Clarendon business district, will feature the racers in the USA and it will be Williams’ one year anniversary as a Pro racer.
CRICKET QUIZ CORNER (Sunday June 14, 2015) COMPLIMENTS OF THE TROPHY STALL-Bourda Market &The City Mall (Tel: 225-9230) & AUDREY’S TASTY SNACKETTE-176 Charlotte Street, Georgetown (Tel: 226-4512)
Answers to yesterday’s quiz:
Michael Holding &Winston Davis WI lost by an innings & 58 runs (WI vs ENG, Lord’s, 1928)
Today’s Quiz: How many times ‘caught Marsh bowled Lillee’ has
been entered in the scorebook in Tests? What is Clive Lloyd’s highest Test score at Bourda?
Answers in tomorrow’s issue