Two of Three BVI/USVI Sprinters Liminted to One Olympic Games Event

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Two of Three BVI/USVI Sprinters Liminted to One Olympic Games Event
By Dean Greenaway
Aug 16, 2004, 18:53

Dion Crabbe starts his last 150 meter run on Monday

ATHENS, Greece—Two of the three U.S. and British Virgin Islands sprinters preparing to compete in the Olympic Games track and field segment hich runs from August 20-28, will be limited to only one event, as neither has made the Olympic Games ‘B’ qualifying standards of 10.28 seconds in the 100 and 20.75 in the 200 meters respectively.

USVI sprinter Adrian Durant will only contest the 100 meters which begins with the preliminary rounds at 10:35 a.m. on August 21. BVI sprinter Dion Crabbe will contest the 200 meters which begin at 10:20 a.m. on Aug 24.

USVI sprint queen Lavorne Jones who has made the A qualifying standards of 11.30 and 22.97 will contest both the 100 and 200 meter events beginning on Aug 20.

Adrian Durant, Lavorne Jones and Dion Crabbe outside team BVI's apartment

USVI head coach Neville Hodge and his BVI head counterpart Dag Samuels, will attend today’s track and field’s technical meeting at 10 a.m. to make their final declarations. Seeding for the competitions will be available by Thursday for Friday’s events, indicating the respective heats the Virgin Islands’ sprinters will be in for the 100 meter events.

Samuels, a member of the Central American and Caribbean Track and Field Technical Committee said such things as ensuring that dates and times for events are correct, as well as submission of names will be on today’s meeting which he expects will last about an hour.

“We will not find out until two days before the event how many heats there’ll be in the first round or who will be in that event and what lane they will be in,” he explained. “Entries for Friday’s events will be submitted today so that they can begin to deal with them. The entries for the Shot Put which begins on Wednesday would have already been submitted because those are the very first events and won’t be held at Olympic Stadium but another venue. Every day after that, entries will be submitted for events two days in advance. But, basically, the meeting is just to give an overview of what will happen over the next 10 days.”

Dion Crabbe keeping loose between workouts

Samuels also attended a coaching clinic in downtown Athens on Monday. Meanwhile, Hodge attended a walk through session at the Olympic Stadium facility on Monday afternoon to familiarize himself and his sprinters with the procedures and the location of the two warm up tracks. While practices have been on the Olympic Village warm up track, Olympic Stadium is available for training from today.

Jones and Durant are expected to practice on the facility at 1 p.m. today, while Crabbe will practice starts at the Olympic Village track around 8 p.m. tonight.