The Guyana Bodybuilding and Fitness Federation (GBBFF) will look to ride its 2017 wave of success in 2018.
Lofty goals are in the pipeline for 2018 and the new executive which took office last year.
According to the federation’s President, Coel Marks, the goal is to fully fund teams. “That’s the benchmark for us in 2018” he told Stabroek Sport last week.
Marks and his executive did tangibly contribute to athletes competing overseas. During the 2017 campaign, the GABBFF helped to offset expenses for teams competing at the Sports World Classic in Trinidad, the Darcy Beckles in Barbados and the Eddy Wilson Invitational in Suriname. All of those teams returned with hardware to the 592.
“In 2018, we want to….
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