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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 ...
DATE: Aug 05, 2016
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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’...
DATE: Aug 05, 2016
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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...
DATE: Aug 05, 2016
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Shelley Pearson will raise the curtain for Bermuda’s athletes at the Rio Olympics when she takes to the waters of the Lagoa Rodrigo de Freita in the single scull rowing heats tomorrow morning.
Pearson will likely be among only a handful of rowers att...
DATE: Aug 05, 2016
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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...
DATE: Aug 05, 2016
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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...
DATE: Aug 05, 2016
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Tyrone Smith has been named as the flag-bearer who will lead Bermuda into the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games tonight.
The 31-year-old will carry his country’s flag at the Olympic curtain-raiser in front of 50,000 spectators at the iconic Marac...
DATE: Aug 05, 2016
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The Bermuda Broadcasting Company has said it will be bringing “unparalleled coverage” of the 2016 Rio Olympic Games — including 13 broadcast feeds on a specially designed app — to Bermuda viewers starting tonight with the opening ceremony.
The BBC w...
DATE: Aug 05, 2016
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Roy-Allan Burch will not be retiring despite falling agonisingly short in his bid to reach the Olympic Games after a courageous comeback from a horrific training accident.
Burch made a miraculous recovery from a career-threatening injury, having rupt...
DATE: Aug 04, 2016
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Brenda Dale has stepped down as Bermuda’s chef de mission for the Olympic Games in Rio because of family reasons.
Dale, who is also the Bermuda Olympic Association vice-president, will be replaced by Carlos Lee, a long-serving BOA official who perfor...
DATE: Aug 02, 2016
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