The National Sports Commission’s (NSC) Director of Sports, Steve Ninvalle is slated to meet with the Guyana Amateur Swimming Association (GASA) and the Guyana Cycling Federation (GCF) today following controversial issues which have arisen over the past week in relation to both disciplines. This is according to a source close to the NSC.
Just last Friday, an official complaint against the misconduct and mismanagement of GASA was filed by the Dolphin Speed Swim Club to the Aquatics Integrity Unit of World Aquatics formerly known as FINA. Since then, there has been deafening silence from the GASA in relation to questions posed on the filing of that complaint.
Meanwhile, the executive of the GCF will meet the Director in relation to an unannounced change of route to the first leg of the NSC’s Independence 3-Stage Cycling Road Race.
A petition, signed by more than 30 local cyclists and former National Coach Hassan Mohamed, the founder of the event since 1983, was sent to the President of the GCF, Horace Burrowes, protesting the change in route.
The change, according to Burrowes was planned two months prior to the approval of the event by the NSC, but was not announced due to an oversight by some members of the GCF executive who had met with Ninvalle and Minister of Culture, Youth and Sport, Charles Ramson Jr. some weeks back.
Those issues and possible resolutions are largely expected to be discussed at the meetings.
