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Veteran Bermudian sailor Warren Brown has called for ocean races to be be postponed if severe weather is forecast, in the aftermath of the world's worst yachting disaster for nearly 20 years.
Six sailors died in the Sydney-to-Hobart race and more tha...
DATE: Jan 02, 1999
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Bermuda's luge phenomenon Patrick Singleton has bounced back from a terrifying, high-speed crash to put himself back on track for the 2002 Winter Olympics.
Just over a month after being injured and badly shaken by the accident, the 24-year-old grabbe...
DATE: Dec 31, 1998
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Bermudian sailors Peter Bromby and Lee White yesterday paid tribute to their friend and rival Glyn Charles, missing and presumed drowned in the ill-fated Sydney-to-Hobart yacht race.
Bromby and White had been firm friends with Briton Charles over the...
DATE: Dec 30, 1998
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Bermuda's top athlete Brian Wellman believes he can leap to the top of the triple jump world in 1999, after injury robbed him of success in 1998.
A niggling injury to his right knee forced Wellman to miss two events where he was a medal hope -- the C...
DATE: Dec 24, 1998
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denied the chance of finishing in the National Stadium because work on laying a new track has fallen behind schedule.
Organisers of International Race Weekend's 10K now have less than a month to set and measure a new course and find a new finishing v...
DATE: Dec 22, 1998
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Bermuda's Paula Lewin has leap-frogged her arch rival Betsy Alison to regain her place at the top of the sailing world.
The Women's Match Race Rankings, just released by the ISAF, show Lewin in first place, clear of American Alison by 644 points.
As ...
DATE: Dec 19, 1998
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Bermuda's Chris Wallington has set his sights on joining the ranks of the world's top motorcycle racers.
Just two years after his breath was taken away by the sight of elite riders hurtling round a Florida track at nearly 200 mph, Wallington has take...
DATE: Dec 18, 1998
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transition from high-class to world-class -- but only with some financial backing.
Smith, 31, says he has written dozens of letters to some of the richest companies based on the Island in his bid for the backing which would allow him to concentrate f...
DATE: Dec 17, 1998
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Race Weekend next month -- despite having been viciously assaulted after his victory last January.
Mulinga was so badly beaten in the incident outside a Front Street nightclub that he needed several days in King Edward VII Hospital to recover.
But th...
DATE: Dec 15, 1998
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Fact-finding missions to two of the world's top soccer-playing nations have given the assistant coach of Bermuda's under-17 squad ideas on how the Island could fare better on the world stage.
Scott Morton, who is also assistant coach of Dandy Town, s...
DATE: Dec 11, 1998
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