With just 94 days to go before the start of the Athens, Greece Olympics it seems likely that a four member delegation comprising two athletes and two officials will represent Guyana at the August 13-19 games unless a number of imminent factors change the status quo.
Chef-de-mission Garfield Wiltshire, athletics official Pamela Phillips, athlete Aliann Pompey and swimmer Onan Thom are headed to the games which returns to the country of its birth.
Commonwealth Games 400 metres gold medalist Pompey is the only Guyana athlete to make the qualifying standard for the games, while Thom has benefited from one of two free spots offered Guyana by the International Swimming Agency (FINA).
The free spots, one male and one female were offered to Guyana based on the participation of Thom and Asanti Mickle at last year's World Swimming championships in Spain.
Thom, who has been training in Trinidad over the past few months and who is attending school in the Twin-Island republic was the lone swimmer nominated by the Guyana Amateur Swimming Association.
But the size of the Guyana delegation could grow with the following factors.
Overseas based Guyanese Marion Burnett is within a whisker of making the `B' standard qualifying time for the 800m.
According to Wiltshire, Burnette's last race saw her running 2:01:70 seconds just 0.4 seconds outside the `B' qualifying standard of 2:01:30 seconds.
However, Wiltshire notes that the Amateur Athletic Association's (AAA) policy do not allow for overseas-based athletes to use the `B' qualifying standard. He is unsure whether the AAA will make an exception in Burnette's case once she is able to erase the deficit.
A number of local athletes are also hopeful of making the `B' standard qualifying times at various athletics meets leading up to Athens.
And Guyana could have three more sportsmen participate at the Games depending on the outcome of a meeting next month.
Guyana have been allotted three wild card spaces which went to Matthew Khan, table tennis, Julian Mc Watt, weightlifting and Paul Lewis, boxing.
Wiltshire said the committee to select the wild card athletes will be held in June where some 800 wild card nominees will compete for the approximately 70-80 available wild card spots.
Some 202 national associations will participate in 28 sports disciplines during the 16-day Summer Olympic Games which will be followed by the Paralympic Games from September 17-28.