4 May 2001 - Monday, 7 May, marks the debut of a new TV Magazine dedicated entirely to Track and Field.
For a year now Alpheus Finlayson, Council Member of the International Amateur Athletic Federation, the world’s governing body for Track and Field, has produced the popular international Track and Field newsletter Alpheus Finlayson’s Track World.
Mr. Finlayson has decided to produce a thirty- minute monthly television magazine called Track World with Alpheus Finlayson. The programme will be an international one and will feature interviews with the world’s top athletics personalities. The inaugural feature interview will be with Bahamian Golden Girl Chandra Sturrup right after she won the 60m in the IAAF World Indoor Championships in Lisbon, Portugal in March.
The programme will also contain information on Athletes To Watch For. These are up and coming athletes who should make their marks in the future. Jamaican Veronica Campbell and Bahamian Chris Brown will be spotlighted this month.
Campbell, from Jamaica, was the silver medallist in the women’s 400m relay in Sydney and is the World Junior Champion, and the Most Outstanding Athlete in the recent Carifta Games. Brown anchored the Bahamas 4x400m relay in Sydney.
Shonel Ferguson, 1984 Olympic Long Jump finalist, will be handling this section of the show. Ferguson will also do a section on Where Are They Now? This month it will spotlight 1982 Commonwealth Games Silver Medallist, High Jumper Stephen Wray.
Amadeo Francis, Vice President of the IAAF will address some current issues in world Track and Field.
Coach Evan Wisdom will bring us up to date on International News from April. Desmond Bannister, President of the Bahamas Amateur Athletic Association will update us on News from the Bahamas. Alpheus Finlayson will deal with News from the Central American and Caribbean region.
Former hurdler Tanya Woodside will let us know of upcoming athletics events in May.
Some of the other feature interviews in the coming months will be Marion Jones, Pauline Davis-Thompson, Sevatheda Fynes, Australian 400m Olympic gold medallist and world champion Cathy Freeman, Cuban Gold medallists Ivan Pedroso and Alberto Juantorena.
The show should air on ZNS TV13 the first Monday of each month.
Mr. Finlayson has been an active athletics administrator for over 30 years.
