The four boxers who were stranded in Cuba for 126 days have all been cleared to resume training following psychological evaluations by Dr. Sixtus Edwards yesterday.
According to President of the Guyana Boxing Association (GBA), Steve Ninvalle, the pugilists were given the green light to resume training at their respective gyms.
“Today (yesterday) we had the boxers psychologically evaluated by Dr Sixtus Edwards, a clinical psychologist and everyone was given the green light to return to training at their gyms. However, we have to wait on the COVID-19 guidelines, but what was said is that they are mentally sound to return to training.”
Gyms are scheduled to reopen on Friday according to the phase five reopening guidelines.
Upon the boxers’ return on July 24, the GBA head had promised that there would be psychological evaluations done on each and every member of the team. It has now been done and they have all been given the thumbs up to resume training.
Said Ninvalle “From the executive of the GBA, we are very happy to have that clearance and we will await word from the government and the COVID-19 task force on the way forward, but we are very happy that they have been cleared”.
The quartet of Keevin Allicock, Colin Lewis, Desmond Amsterdam and Dennis Thomas departed on January 4 for a three-month training stint ahead of the Olympic Qualifiers which was scheduled to be held four months ago.
They were scheduled to return home on March 19 before traveling to Argentina for the March 26-April 3 Olympic Qualifiers which had to be shelved.
Those scheduled plans were all thwarted following the COVID-19 pandemic which has claimed in excess of 720,000 lives worldwide including 22 Guyanese to date.
