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Bermuda Track and Field Association president Judy Simmons and national coach Gerry Swan are at the centre of controversy following the governing body's refusal to allow four of the Island's most promising athletes the opportunity to travel overseas....
DATE: Apr 17, 2002
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Professional tennis star Michael Pernfors was enjoying a double celebration last night after partnering his Bermudian pal Hugh Barit to victory in the 30th annual Founders Trophy golf tournament at Mid Ocean Club.
Moments after stepping off the 18th ...
DATE: Feb 23, 2002
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Swede Michael Pernfors is proving this week he can wield a golf club almost as well as he can a tennis racquet.
The former Davis Cup star and winner of Bermuda's inaugural XL Tennis Classic continues to lead the annual Founders Trophy tournament at M...
DATE: Feb 22, 2002
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Local golf's budding star Michael Sims is turning professional.
And already some of the world's top sports management companies are chasing his signature.
The Rhode Island University student, currently back on the Island, will return next week to com...
DATE: Jan 12, 2002
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TROY DOUGLAS would have us believe he's the Rodney Dangerfield of local athletics.
On a rare return from Holland, his adopted home, the three-time Olympian sprinter bemoaned last week the fact that he and the Island's two other track and field stars ...
DATE: Dec 07, 2001
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Some have been saying it for years _ if there's a way to minimise tourism's spiralling decline, it's through sport.
And with the Island facing potentially its bleakest winter in recent memory, now could be the perfect time for those who run the indus...
DATE: Oct 26, 2001
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Bermuda boxer Teresa Perozzi's hopes of becoming the Women's Pan-American champion were dashed over the weekend without a punch being thrown.
A combination of events sparked by last Thursday's tropical storm meant that 27-year-old Perozzi didn't arri...
DATE: Oct 17, 2001
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Thursday night's raging storm has reduced the Bermuda Open golf championships to a 36-hole tournament after Port Royal was yesterday declared unplayable.
It's believed to be the first time in the history of the $50,000 event that both the first and s...
DATE: Oct 13, 2001
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Bermuda's most prestigious sailing regatta, the Colorcraft Gold Cup due to start this weekend, has been added to a growing casualty list of world sporting events affected by the September 11 terrorist attacks on the US.
The regatta will go ahead as p...
DATE: Oct 13, 2001
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Raging wind and torrential rain forced abandonment of yesterday's first round of the Bermuda Open golf championships, reducing the tournament from a 72- to a 54-hole event.
Players will start afresh this morning, even those who completed their round ...
DATE: Oct 12, 2001
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