Lorna Forde, one of the finest track athletes this country has ever produced, is calling on the Athletic Association of Barbados (AAB) and the business sector to do more to take the sport to the next level.
The darling of women’s track here in the 1970s returned home this week to attend the funeral of her aunt Carmen Payne-McCaskie, and she NATIONNews that this country is capable of producing more Obadele Thompsons and Ryan Brathwaites but talent without help will not cut it.
“I think more can be done. We have had Oba and Ryan, but we should be doing better. The athletes need support at every turn and everyone must come on board,” said Forde, now a respiratory therapist in New York.
“We have got to work with them from young, but we also have to have a programme after CARIFTA. The powers that be need to have something for those who are in their early 20s, who have not been lucky enough to get a scholarship,” she said.
The two-time Olympian, who turns 61 next month, said that scholarships to the United States still remained the gateway to success for local athletes.
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