Clement Radcliffe and Organizers Satisfied with Champs 2008

Though police who had to contend with violent clashes among students and spectators and other incidents on the outside said it was the worst they had to deal with, inside the National Stadium, the 2008 ISSA/GraceKennedy Boys’ & Girls’ Athletic Championships Organising Committee chairman Clement Radcliffe said organisers were satisfied that the event went off virtually incident free.

“For the first time in my memory they had no incidents inside the National Stadium over the four days, the officials were as professional as ever, the meet was run in excellent fashion, we were on time on the last day and the excitement was no less as expected,” Radcliffe, who is in his first year as Organising Committee chairman, having taken over the job from former Wolmer’s Boys principal Dave Myrie, said.

There were no reported incidents inside the National Stadium, field invasions, or overcrowding and after the Championships the winning schools entered the competition area in an orderly fashion.

“We used the reports from last year and endeavoured to address those problems,” Radcliffe said. “We sold a maximum of 20,000 tickets for the Bleachers this year… overcrowding was not a major issue, we would have still loved our patrons to have cleared the aisles and passages, but I suppose that’s a work in progress.”

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March 20, 2008 | Filed Under Events and Happenings, News and Bulletins, Track and Field 

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