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Just when you thought that Cecilia Wollmann’s year could not get any better, it just did.
Fresh off a maiden Olympic appearance in Rio de Janeiro, the Royal Hamilton Amateur Dinghy Club sailor has made the final cut on the team to represent Bermuda a...
DATE: Aug 23, 2016
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Bermuda’s 40-year wait for an Olympic Games medal will continue for at least another four years after Flora Duffy was unable to force her way onto the podium in Rio on Saturday.
Duffy emerged as a “dark horse” for a medal with a slew of superb perfor...
DATE: Aug 22, 2016
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Flora Duffy said she was proud of her top-ten finish despite having “an off day” in the women’s triathlon at the Olympic Games.
Duffy was a genuine medal contender but had to settle for eighth, finishing some two minutes behind Gwen Jorgensen, who wo...
DATE: Aug 22, 2016
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Flora Duffy has changed the “dynamics of racing” in women’s triathlon, according to rival Non Stanford, and it may be enough to earn her an Olympic medal.
The Bermuda triathlete’s dominating performances on the bike this season have catapulted her to...
DATE: Aug 20, 2016
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Festooned across a wall inside one of Bermuda’s three suites on the seventeenth floor of their apartment block in the Athletes’ Village is a Somerset Cricket Club flag.
Much to the chagrin of chef de mission Carlos Lee, a St George’s supporter, it ha...
DATE: Aug 20, 2016
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Flora Duffy produced her best Olympic race yet to finish eighth in the women’s triathlon in Rio today.
Duffy finished in 1hr 58 min 25 sec, some two minutes behind Gwen Jorgensen, the pre-race favourite who took gold in 1:56:16.
It was a vast improve...
DATE: Aug 20, 2016
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Jimmy Spithill can hardly wait to take delivery of the racing yacht that Oracle Team USA will use to defend their America’s Cup title in the Great Sound next year.
“As a sailing team, we can’t wait to get our hands on it and learn how to get the most...
DATE: Aug 19, 2016
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Flora Duffy will look to become Bermuda’s “Superwoman” when she chases a podium finish at the Olympic Games in tomorrow’s women’s triathlon.
She is ranked No 1 in the International Triathlon Union world rankings and is among the medal favourites alon...
DATE: Aug 19, 2016
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With the Olympic Games approaching the finish line, Judy Simons, the Bermuda Olympic Association president, believes the sceptics have largely been silenced.
Corruption, crime, pollution and the Zika virus provided an easy backdrop to the run-up to t...
DATE: Aug 18, 2016
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Flora Duffy goes in hot pursuit of an Olympic Games medal in the women’s triathlon this weekend and believes the hilly course at Fort Copacabana perfectly suits her strengths.
Duffy, who would become Bermuda’s first medal-winner since Clarence Hill w...
DATE: Aug 18, 2016
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