Obadele Thompson, Barbados’ only individual Olympic medallist, says the outlook towards sports on the island is “wrong and backward”.
Thompson, who was a guest on Starcom Network’s Brass Tacks Sunday’s radio call-in programme entitled The Blueprint To The Podium In Paris 2024, said he submitted a plan to Government and the Barbados Olympic Association in 2006 outlining what measures needed to be taken in order for the country to win its next Olympic medal.
However, he lamented that the plan, geared towards high-performance consultancy, had fallen on deaf ears.
“I will say this . . . as a former athlete and as a person who has now had enough experience, been removed from the sport, met with a lot of people and studied a lot about sports [and] talked to people all over the world, the approach that we take is simply wrong and backward. If they would have implemented the plan that I had, I think we would have been in a better position today,” he said. (AGB)
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