By Lincoln DePradine
Editor, The Plain Times
Newly crowned World Champion javelin thrower, Anderson Peters, will be visiting Grenada in December and a celebration will be held in his honour, sports minister Norland Cox announced this morning.
“We’re planning a grand welcome ceremony,’’ Senator Cox told reporters at the post-cabinet news briefing. “He deserves that and much more.’’
Cox said that he had spoken to Peters and the other Grenadian athletes, Kirani James and Lindon Victor, who also participated in the World Championship that concluded on the weekend in Qatar.
Peters, 21, is based in the United States attending college as a student-athlete. America’s college regulations forbid student-athletes from accepting remunerations for their sporting performances. Because of this, said Cox, the Grenada government is unable to provide any “tangible support’’ to Peters for his gold medal winning performance in Qatar.
