(Barbados Government Information Service Press Release) The rest of the world has managed to surpass the Caribbean in sports simply because they have incorporated science into sports.
Minister of Creative Economy, Culture and Sports, John King, shared this view at the launch of the Sports Science Society of the University of the West Indies (UWI) Cave Hill Campus, which took place on Monday at the Usain Bolt Sports Complex.
Students of the Faculty of Sport at The UWI Cave Hill formed the organisation, which will cater to the needs of fellow students, as well as develop sports in a holistic manner in the wider Barbadian community.
Minister King praised the students on the “historic occasion”, stressing that their skills would be critical to taking local and regional sportspersons to another level.
He lamented that the Caribbean was playing catch up compared to the rest of the world in the area of sports science, a multi-disciplinary study which includes the human anatomy, physiology and seeking to understand and enhance human performance.
“It is not just the athlete; it is the medicine, the nutrition and the other sciences that go behind it. If you look and see what is happening across the Caribbean, look at our sportsmen, we have been able to produce out of literally nothing, top-class athletes, cricketers [and] footballers…. When you look across the world, in the Premier League and other [international games], you have West Indians from different islands playing. You can find them as far away as Asia.”
“We have done it basically; and I could be challenged on this, almost 99.9 per cent of the time on pure talent alone. What you are beginning to do is to…
