sport, but there are no wholesale changes planned as far as he is concerned.

One of the island's prominent riders since making his debut back in 1983, DeSilva was last week elected president of the Bermuda Bicycle Association -- a move he says he made to "put something back into the sport.'' DeSilva gave his predecessor, Jeff Payne, high marks and figures cycling on the Island needs to continue most of his policies in order to be successful.

But the 33-year-old still has set personal goals that he would like to see the BBA adopt in a bid to keep up with the times and to build for the future.

One of his main goals is to concentrate on the continued development of the junior programme.

He admits that the BBA have worked hard to expand in this area in recent years and he was hopeful the new executive could build on the groundwork that has already been laid.

"Our overall membership has been steady for the past few years while the junior programme has grown and this is where my main concentration will be,'' said DeSilva. "I would like to bring more new young members into the association and also try to replenish the senior membership with a few of the older riders leaving.'' "One of my other major goals at this point is to establish a better national team programme for both our international riders and local riders wishing to ride overseas in major races. I would like to organise it better so that we can probably approach the corporate sector for sponsorship because that is the major problem with racing overseas. It costs a lot of money. We need more sponsorship in order to be successful.'' DeSilva was on the national team for five years and competed in several international races before retiring in 1991 because of an injury. He returned briefly a year ago.

DeSilva is pleased that the BBA is able to use the old Kindley Base for most of its races, but stressed that he would like to see more events held in spectator-friendly Hamilton.

Another area where he hoped would be made use of by the BBA was in Dockyard.

"We are looking at trying to get a circuit in that area, it would really be nice to have more races outside of Kindley than the few that we have,'' he said.

The other Bermuda Bicycle Association officers are Whayman Butterfield (vice president); Linda Dillan (secretary); Richard Mason (treasurer); Jason Krupp (road captain); Greg Hopkins (public relations) and Vance Stevens (BOA representative).

Judy Simmons was acclaimed president of the Bermuda Track and Field Association during their annual general meeting on Friday night.

Simmons is a long-serving member of the BTFA but has never been elected to the executive. She has worked particularly close with the juniors, accompanying several Bermuda teams to the CARIFTA Games.

She replaced Stanley Douglas, who decided to step down after two years.

Simmons yesterday declined an interview request by the The Royal Gazette .

Bob Oliver was named vice president of track and field while Lee Tucker was voted vice president of road running section. Gayle Scott is the new secretary while Roderick Bassett is the new treasurer. Pat Lake and was returned as assistant secretary-treasurer Carlos DeSilva