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From Oldham in the north of England, to the Australian outback and back to New York, Flora Duffy’s gold in the Tokyo Olympics was headline news.
In the UK, The Guardian acclaimed Flora’s stunning victory and drew attention to the size of Bermuda, not...
DATE: Jul 28, 2021
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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
News Staff
HSBC showed the Bermuda Hospitals Board some “Cup Match magic” in the form of cricket equipment and other goods.
The bank’s Cup Match Motorcade drove passed the King Edward VII Memorial Hospital in Paget on Monday to set up special tables, which incl...
DATE: Jul 28, 2021
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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
Sékou Hendrickson
The City of Hamilton has released a schedule of garbage collection for the Cup Match weekend.
Garbage collections will be scheduled on the following dates:
* Today, Wednesday, July 28, a normal garbage collection will take place for residents.
* Toda...
DATE: Jul 28, 2021
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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
News Staff
The fight against slavery in a Caribbean nation 1,000 miles to Bermuda’s south has been celebrated as the island looks to commemorate its own 1834 emancipation over Cup Match.
Glenn Fubler, from the activist group Imagine Bermuda, said the Haitian Re...
DATE: Jul 28, 2021
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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
The Cup Match camping tradition will resume this year – but with Covid-19 restrictions in place.
A spokesman for the Ministry of Public Works said campers and picnickers are allowed to set up their camp sites today, but camping itself will only be pe...
DATE: Jul 27, 2021
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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
Flora Duffy said this was her last shot and she took it.
There may have been few spectators in Tokyo but all of Bermuda was cheering on Bermuda’s golden girl as she ran into the history books and smashed the Olympic record at the same time.
In the en...
DATE: Jul 27, 2021
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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
Bill Zuill
Bermuda’s first Olympic medal-winner, Clarence Hill, said last night that his faith in the island’s talents had been borne out by Flora Duffy’s triumph in Tokyo.
The boxing heavyweight who brought home a bronze win from the 1976 Montreal Games said o...
DATE: Jul 27, 2021
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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
A national celebration awaits gold medal winner Flora Duffy on her return home from last night’s triumph in Tokyo.
David Burt, the Premier, declared that all of Bermuda looked forward to commemorating the island’s second-ever Olympic win and the firs...
DATE: Jul 27, 2021
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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
A man who was rescued by the US Coast Guard in 2014 trying to travel from Florida to Bermuda by sea in a floating bubble, has drifted ashore trying to “walk” to New York from Florida.
Reza Baluchi, a marathon runner and Iranian exile, was featured o...
DATE: Jul 27, 2021
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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan
The Royal Gazette received dozens of good luck messages for triathlete Flora Duffy, who is one of the medal favourites for the women’s event at the Tokyo Olympics tonight.
Ms Duffy, whose race starts at 6.30pm Bermuda time, is the Commonwealth G...
DATE: Jul 26, 2021
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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
News Staff