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By Michael Bascombe
ST GEORGE’S, Grenada, February 17, 2012 - Hundreds of athletes will converge at the National Stadium on Saturday for the 24th Annual National Relay Meet.
The Meet, organised by the Ministry of Youth Empowerment and Sport in collaboration with the Grenada Athletic Association (GAA), is this year sponsored by Kentucky Fry Chicken (KFC).
More than 25 events will be contested over a four-hour period beginning at 3:00 p.m.
Sports Minister Patrick Simmons said that this year’s Meet has already generated keen interest with the sponsorship by KFC and the live streaming being provided by LIME Grenada.
“Schools are excited and we have seen a resurgence of clubs and the buzz around is already around that keen competition is at stake this weekend,” said Simmons.
Some of the outstanding schools in track and field including the St Andrew’s Anglican Secondary School (SAASS), McDonald College (MDC), Grenada Boys’ Secondary School (GBSS) as well as SpeedZone, Aces, Track Blazers and Police are among some of the clubs expected to compete.
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The Meet will open with the Distance Medley Relays for Male and Female in the Open categories, as well as 4x100m, 4x200m, 4x300m, 200x100x100x400m and 4x400m among midgets, youths, juniors, and seniors.
Preceding the scheduled events the organisers will have an official opening ceremony which will include brief remarks from the GAA, the title sponsor and Minister who is expected to declare the meet open. They will also observe a minute silence for the late broadcaster Anthony “Jericho” Greenidge and Alfred Gibbs. Greenidge, a former national athlete, has been the voice of track and field at the National Stadium for over a decade until his death last November while Gibbs, who also represented Grenada at track and field, was a Games Master and track official for many years. He died early this year.
The National Relay Meet was first held in 1988 at the old Queen’s Park Playing Field. It was etched out of ideas from deceased Gordon Ward, an avid sportsman and coach for various sporting disciplines.
The live streaming of the KFC National Relay Meet will be powered by LIME Grenada.
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