[Written by Stephen Wright]
Bermuda’s travelling party of more than 70 athletes received the warmest of Guernsey welcomes at the NatWest International Island Games opening ceremony tonight [July 8].
Held along a packed St Peter Port seafront, Bermuda’s team looked resplendent in their pink, blue and white tracksuits, referencing the island’s unique natural attributes such as the blue water and pink sand.
Fittingly, Gavin Manders, the tennis captain and Bermuda’s most successful Island Games athlete, carried the island’s flag during the athletes’ parade, after which he displayed a T-shirt he was wearing in tribute to national team footballer Marco Warren, who died in a hit-and-run incident in May.
Badminton players Dezirae Darrell and Somers Stevenson performed the water-carrying duties during the water ceremony, involving the symbolic mixing of waters, the Island Games equivalent of lighting the Olympic flame.
Representatives from each of the 24 competing jurisdictions poured water from their island into a fountain that will run throughout the Games week.
More than 2,000 athletes will compete in 14 different sports across 25 venues in Guernsey.
Tomorrow’s schedule
Badminton
Team event, group stage
- Isle of Man v Bermuda
- Isle of Man v Bermuda
- Bermuda v Froya
Football
Men’s group stage
- Bermuda v Froya
Women’s group stage
- Bermuda v Jersey
Sailing
ILCA 6 Final day one
- Ahzai Smith and Nicole Stovell
Clay Shooting
Olympic Skeet Team event
- James Davis and J. Andrew Pereira
Tennis
Men’s Team event
Women’s Team event
Triathlon
Men’s Individual Final
- Williams Green, Christopher Hands-Jackson
Women’s Individual Final
- Elizabeth Brewin, Meghan Diel
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