Missed Qualifiers Limit Saint Lucia’s Pan Am Junior Games Participation

Despite a successful sporting year in 2024, Saint Lucia is expected to field only a small team at the Pan Am Junior Games in Asunción, Paraguay, later this year.  Saint Lucia Olympic Committee (SLOC) president Alfred Emmanuel has revealed to St. Lucia Times that only three or four federations are currently able to qualify athletes for the August 9-23 multi-sport event, as several affiliates and administrators appeared to have been unaware of the qualifying mechanisms. “From what we’ve seen, we don’t think that a number of associations paid close attention. And, as such, there just might be three or four associations that are in a position to qualify athletes for the event,” Emmanuel said.  He further disclosed: “We had a meeting with all national federations closer to the end of 2024, and what some persons did realise is that some of the qualifiers had gone already. So once your qualifier is gone, then you are basically out of contention. There are some associations who really didn’t have athletes in a position to meet any qualifying standards, so those didn’t attend the meeting. So we are now looking at a possibility of maybe three or four associations as I speak.” The...