{"id":15557,"date":"2024-01-15T16:56:07","date_gmt":"2024-01-15T16:56:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/?p=15557"},"modified":"2024-01-15T16:56:09","modified_gmt":"2024-01-15T16:56:09","slug":"national-track-field-center-to-receive-warm-up-track-in-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/national-track-field-center-to-receive-warm-up-track-in-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"National Track &amp; Field Center to Receive Warm-Up Track in 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n\n<p>The national track and field center at Edinburg is set for further improvements as plans are underway to build a warm-up track, according to Minister of Culture, Youth, and Sport Charles Ramson Junior. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The facility, commissioned in 2015, has been a vital hub for local and international track and field events.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The upcoming warm-up track aims to better equip the stadium for both local and international competitions. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Minister Ramson highlighted that the lack of a warm-up track, promised in 2017 but not realized under the previous government, will be addressed in 2024. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The ministry has already sourced the materials needed for the project.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the previous year, the ministry completed the resurfacing of the 400-meter track at the National Track and Field Center (NTFC), costing 77 million dollars. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Additionally, a rubberized track was laid at the newly developed facility in Bayrock, Linden, by the German contracting firm BSW Regopul.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Minister Ramson mentioned that the timeline for installing the rubber track, estimated to cost around 20 million dollars, depends on the availability of experts in synthetic materials.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The ministry has also acquired seats for the stands at the national track and field center and constructed a new tarmac to facilitate hosting more events. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The NTFC has been a venue for various competitions, including the Aliann Pompey meet, which serves as an Olympic qualification. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Despite being canceled in recent years due to COVID-19 and track resurfacing, the facility continues to host national championships and other invitational meets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>[Travis Seymour, Reporting for NCN News]<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The national track and field center at Edinburg is set for further improvements as plans are underway to build a warm-up track, according to Minister of Culture, Youth, and Sport&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":15558,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[350,352],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-sports"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15557"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15557\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15559,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15557\/revisions\/15559"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}