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Tyrone Smith said he is jumping with more confidence than ever as he looks to continue his impressive season at the IAAF World Championships in Beijing.
Smith is enjoying one of his best campaigns as a long jumper and hopes to build upon his consiste...
DATE: Aug 19, 2015
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Jessica Lewis said her gold-medal triumph at the Parapan Am Games in Toronto has given her the belief to push for more podium finishes at elite competitions.
Lewis, a wheelchair sprinter, stormed to victory in the T53 100 metres final to make history...
DATE: Aug 18, 2015
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Jessica Lewis, the wheelchair sprinter, is confident of becoming Bermuda’s first athlete to win a medal at a major international para-sports competition.
Lewis will compete in the T53 classification in the 100, 400 and 800 metres at the Parapan Am Ga...
DATE: Aug 07, 2015
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Dominique Mayho and Zoenique Williams endured a Pan Am Games to forget after both failed to finish the cycling road race in Ontario Place on Saturday.
Williams, who was prevented from competing in Wednesday’s time-trial because her bike did not compl...
DATE: Jul 27, 2015
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Patrick Nisbett and Jill Terceira have both finished in the top 35 riders to qualify for tomorrow’s medal round of the show jumping at the Pan Am Games.
It is the first time both Bermuda riders have advanced to the final day of the competition at the...
DATE: Jul 24, 2015
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Zoenique Williams and Dominique Mayho both suffered nightmare starts to their Pan Am Games campaigns in yesterday’s time-trial in Milton, Southern Ontario.
Race officials found technical problems with both riders’ bikes, with Williams not even starti...
DATE: Jul 23, 2015
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Patrick Nisbett and Jill Terceira both had clean rounds in the first qualifier of the show jumping and are tied for first place with 32 other riders at the Pan Am Games.
The Bermuda pair return to the OLG Caledon Equestrian Pan Am Park tomorrow for t...
DATE: Jul 22, 2015
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Lisa Blackburn hopes there will be one final chapter to her inspirational swimming story after closing the book on her Pan Am Games career in Toronto.
At 44-years-old, Blackburn, a three-times Pan Am Games athlete, knows only too well that time is ru...
DATE: Jul 20, 2015
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Cameron Pimentel will look to finish the Pan Am Games on a high note after a mistake late in his final Laser Radial race yesterday left him feeling exasperated.
Pimentel seemed set for his best finish of eighth when he was left stranded with no breez...
DATE: Jul 17, 2015
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Cameron Pimentel said he has been “off the pace” after another difficult day out on the water in Toronto Habour at the Pan Am Games.
The Laser sailor showed marginal signs of improvement finishing twelfth and fourteenth yesterday, having placed fifte...
DATE: Jul 14, 2015
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Stephen Wright