An elated Flora Duffy, Bermuda’s first Olympic gold medal winner, has described receiving a damehood in the Queen’s New Year’s Honours List as “surreal and special” to cap off a “beautiful” 2020. Duffy, 34, said she was surprised to be told that she wo…
HONOUR-BERMUDA-Golden girl Duffy receives damehood
Triathlete Flora Duffy, the first Bermudian ever to win an Olympic gold medal, has been made a Dame in the Queen’s New Year Honours List. Duffy, 34, who struck gold in Tokyo last summer to put Bermuda on the world stage, was recognised as Dame Commande…
ATHLETICS-JAMAICA-Thompson-Herah up for another sports award
Jamaican Olympic triple gold medallist Elaine Thompson-Herah is going up against an American football legend, an international tennis, a contender for a Formula 1 championship and a female Irish jockey who created history for the BBC’s World Sport Star…
TRIATHLON-BERMUDA-Olympic champion Duffy storms to record sixth Xterra title
Bermuda’s Olympic triathlon gold medallist Flora Duffy signed off for the year by storming to a record sixth Xterra World Championship title in Kapalua here on Sunday, beating her closest rival by more than seven minutes. Duffy, 34, who won gold at thi…
ATHLETICS-JAMAICA-Thompson-Herah named Female World Athlete of the Year
Jamaican Olympic champion Elaine Thompson-Herah was named Female World Athlete of the Year at the World Athletics Awards 2021 held virtually on Wednesday. She earned the honour after an outstanding year of sprinting. Meantime, Karsten Warholm of Norway…
ATHLETICS-BERMUDA-Former jumper King lands new Commonwealth post
Former Bermuda long jumper, Arantxa King, whose father played cricket for the Windward Islands, has been appointed the Commonwealth Games Federation’s (CGF) first Ethics Officer, media here have reported. King, 31, who represented the island in long ju…
ATHLETICS-JAMAICA- Thompson-Herah named NACAC Female Athlete of the Year
Following an exceptional 2021 season performance, two-time sprint double Olympic Games gold medallist Elaine Thompson-Herah has copped the North American, Central American, and Caribbean Athletics Association (NACAC) Female Athlete of the Year title. S…
TRIATHLON-BERMUDA-Olympic champion Duffy off to a winning start in UAE
Bermuda’s Olympic champion Flora Duffy got her World Triathlon Championship Series title defence off to the ideal start by holding off three Britons to win the women’s race here on Friday. In her first return to competitive action since winning on her …
ATHLETICS-TRINIDAD-Weightlifters inducted posthumously into Pan American Weightlifting Hall of Fame
Two legendary Trinidad and Tobago sports figures, weightlifters Rodney Adolphus Wilkes and Lennox Kilgour, have posthumously been inducted into the Pan American Weightlifting Hall of Fame. Wilkes, Trinidad and Tobago’s first Olympic medallist, and Kilg…
Samuda disagrees with cut in compulsory sports at Commonwealth Games
President of the Jamaica Olympic Association (JOA), Christopher Samuda labelled the decision of the Commonwealth Games Federation (CGF) to set athletics and swimming as the only two compulsory disciplines at the Games from 2026 onwards as a “body blow …