Olympic Day activities planned for Tortola, Virgin Gorda

On Saturday, the athletes who will represent the Virgin Islands at the Nanjing 2014 Youth Olympic Games on Aug. 16-28, in swimming, sailing and athletics, will be announced at the Tortola Sports Club as part of several Olympic Day celebrations planned for the territory.

On Tortola, the programme of events will take place between 4 p.m. and 6 p.m. and will include a special presentation of the Olympic participant pin from the Ministry of Education and Culture to Peter Adam Crook, the VI’s half-pipe skier at the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympic Games. The annual Olympic Day two-mile walk/run will close out the activities starting at the Tortola Sports Club at 5 p.m. and will proceed west through Road Town and return to the TSC. Participants will receive a free T-shirt and a certificate of participation.

On VG, the Olympic Day run will start at 6:30 a.m., with registration starting at 6 a.m. at the HLSCC campus in The Valley. For more details, contact Gloreah Gibson at  gloreahgibson@hotmail.com or call 547-7404.

All events are free and open to the public.

“The BVIOC wants the whole community to come out and support our young Olympians-to-be and to get involved with the message of Olympism,” said BVI Olympic Committee President Ephraim Penn. “We will have with us some of the young athletes who will be representing the Virgin Islands at the highest level of global competition. This will be the first time that the territory will be represented in the sports of swimming and sailing at the Youth Olympic Games. These participants, along with those from the sport of athletics, have worked extremely hard to qualify as competitors and the BVIOC is excited to see their efforts come to fruition.”

For more information about the Olympic Day activities, contact BVIOC Executive Director Cleave Farrington at 542-1007 or 496-6007 or by e-mail at  cmfarrington@bviolympics.org.

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