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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 ...

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’...

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...

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...

For eight brave souls, and the two who will follow when the world’s best Paralympians roll into Rio de Janeiro next month, these are the absolute best of times. When the Olympic flame is lit tonight to mark the official opening of the Games of the XX...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Those of us who enjoy experiencing the “thrill of victory and the agony of defeat” of the Olympic Games could probably do without one particular emotion: the fear that the Games, which begin tomorrow in Rio de Janeiro, will be an operational disaster...

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...

RIO DE JANEIRO — Just days ahead of the Olympic Games the waterways of Rio de Janeiro are as filthy as ever, contaminated with raw human sewage teeming with dangerous viruses and bacteria, according to a 16-month-long study commissioned by The Associ...