The leadership and some members of Saint Lucia’s Athlete’s Commission were formally presented on Wednesday, June 19, 2019, as one of the events marking Olympic Week 2019. Secretary General of the Saint Lucia Olympic Committee Inc., Alfred Emmanuel, said that a number of meetings spanning over the period of a year were scheduled to get the Commission going.

“An Athlete’s Commission is a body of eligible athletes that will be responsible for highlighting Athletes’ issues and assist with their own development over time. It is mandatory for us as an Olympic Committee to have this Commission going. We have been back and forth with the International Olympic Committee’s (IOC) legal department on it,” said Emmanuel.

Eligible athletes of the Commission would be those athletes who would have participated in one of the last three editions of either a Central American and Caribbean Games, a Pan American Games, a Commonwealth Games or an Olympic Games…learn more