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Troy Douglas is optimistic of staying on as head coach of the Bermuda National Athletics Association after the Olympic Games. Douglas, who has performed the all-encompassing role for the past four years, will discuss his future with Donna Raynor, the...

Tyrone Smith will have the words of Carl Lewis ringing in his ears when he competes in the long jump qualifying at the Olympic Stadium tomorrow. With his regular coach Kyle Tellez unable to travel to Rio because of illness, Lewis — one of the greates...

Rebecca Heyliger is living out her Olympic dream in Rio alongside her boyfriend and Denmark swimmer Mads Glaesner. The couple met 3½ years ago as team-mates for Trojan Swim Club at the University of Southern California and soon made a pact to try and...

Jim Butterfield felt “like a lamb to the slaughter” before his Olympic debut — but believes Shelley Pearson is ready for her Rio test after a far more varied rowing eduction. Butterfield is a close friend of Shelley’s father Kevin Pearson, a former B...

Julian Fletcher has revealed he came close to quitting swimming after narrowly failing to qualify for the 2012 London Olympics. Believing his Olympic dream was over, having missed the 100 metres breaststroke standard by six tenths of a second, Fletch...

If anyone is qualified to give perspective on Julian Fletcher and Rebecca Heyliger’s Olympic Games journeys it is Bermuda coach Ben Smith. Smith has guided the pair all the way through their swimming careers from eight-year-olds to qualification for ...

Clarence Hill admits he feels like “the forgotten man” of Bermuda sport despite achieving a feat that no other island athlete has accomplished by winning an Olympic medal. Hill is not beloved or revered in a way befitting of a man who became Bermuda’...

Cecilia Wollmann was chosen as the torchbearer for the Americas region, with the Bermudian sailor carrying the Olympic torch through the Athletes’ Village yesterday. Wollmann, 18, is the youngest of the island’s eight-team squad and will be making he...

Clarence Hill has thrown his support behind Flora Duffy and backed her to deliver a knockout performance in Rio and win Bermuda’s first Olympic medal in 40 years. Hill remains Bermuda’s greatest Olympian as the only athlete to achieve a podium finish...

A new cycle of fresh-faced athletes will march behind the Bermuda flag during the Parade of Nations in tonight’s Olympic Games opening ceremony. Bermuda will have half a dozen debutants in Rio in the form of sailors Cecilia Wollmann and Cameron Pimen...