We also got to ask Jones about the upcoming CODICADER games in Honduras. As we reported 10 days ago - Belize managed to avoid a two year ban and has been invited to participate.
So, the sports council is getting ready to take a full contingent of student athletes to Tegucigalpa Honduras on August 20th. This was finalized at a technical meeting in Honduras earlier this week.
Jones told us how many:...
Ian Jones - Director of Sports
"We have been doing all the paper works in terms of getting the athletes information together, the school information, send it back to CODICADER. So far we have commitment from all the major disciplines and now it's a matter of putting everything together, putting the resources behind it, making sure the training camp, because we just don't want to send the kid. We are going to start training camp with all of them, most of them have already been in training camps throughout this time, but know we are going to put our sports council resources into the camps to make sure that the kids are properly prepared, make sure their courting staff, their technical staff from these different teams are all in par. So, everybody is looking forward to going to CODICADER. Like I said we are doing everything in the background to make sure that it's a successful running for Belize this year."
Jules Vasquez, reporter
"How large will the contingent be? Do you have an estimate?"
Ian Jones - Director of Sports
"It's good that you asked that, me and Mr. Slusher literally just went through the numbers and so far we are looking at about a 100 athletes."
The contingent could balloon to 132 athletes and will travel by charter bus.
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