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Madelyn Moore will be hoping to launch her participation at the Youth Olympics in earnest today when she takes to the pool to contest the 50 metres backstroke. Moore, who is joined in Buenos Aires, Argentina, by fellow swimmer Kai Legband and 400 met...

Swimmers Madelyn Moore and Kai Legband and sprinter Clevonte Lodge-Bean have been chosen to represent Bermuda at next month’s Youth Olympic Games in Argentina. The Bermuda Olympic Association confirmed the team yesterday, naming the three-member team...

A Bermudian Olympic long jump hero struck gold when he made a surprise proposal to his girlfriend at a major athletics competition in Switzerland. Tyrone Smith popped the question to Sandi Morris, who won silver for the United States in the pole vaul...

Usain Bolt is coming to Bermuda and one lucky resident will have the opportunity to meet him face to face. The superstar Jamaican sprinter will be on the island for promotional work next Tuesday in his role as Digicel’s chief speed officer. Bolt, who...

Olympic sailor James “Jimmy” Kempe has died at the age of 94. An engraver whose handiwork adorned trophies as well as gifts to visiting dignitaries, Mr Kempe represented the island twice at the Olympic Games — in Melbourne in 1956 and Rome in 1960. F...

It has become a widely accepted tenet of modern economics that markets are flawed and need fixing by experts to engineer desired outcomes. At the Winter Games in Pyeongchang, which just concluded, the International Olympic Committee appeared to take ...

The original Finn dinghy used by Bermudian sailing legend Howard Lee at the 1976 Montreal Olympics has returned to the island. The boat travelled from Canada to Florida before it was transported to Bermuda. Mr Lee’s grandson, Rockal Evans, who aims ...

A devoted mother and a passionate educator; that was how friends and colleagues remembered popular teacher and tennis mentor Disa Potgieter-Oubella, who died on Sunday. Mrs Potgieter-Oubella, who was also a well-known and widely respected figure in B...

Patrick Singleton hopes his idea of giving Olympians a chance to award themselves by putting OLY after their name will help their post-athletic careers. The honour is available to the 100,000 living Olympians after the World Olympians Association, of...

Stan Douglas has been appointed secretary-general of the Bermuda Olympic Association, filling the position left vacant by the death of Philip Guishard last summer. The BOA confirmed the appointment yesterday, with Douglas having administrative resp...

With the Bermuda Government spending under extra scrutiny during the Reply to the Budget debate, it was perhaps inevitable that the price tag for Sylvan Richards’ trip to the Olympics would come up on Friday night in the House of Assembly. The former...

Muhammad Ali, arguably the greatest boxer ever to lace up a pair of gloves, took up the sport as a way of being prepared to defend himself in the future after his bicycle was stolen. Rocky Marciano took up boxing to avoid kitchen duty when he was dr...