Team Bermuda at the Commonwealth Games
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Team Bermuda’s Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games competition is underway! The athletes and team representatives are on the Gold Coast for this quadrennial event.
Our team is doing a wonderful job at representing the island, with Tyler Smith leading the Bermuda squad, as flag-bearer, in the opening ceremony.
Bermuda Takes Part In Commonwealth Opening
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More than 4500 athletes from 71 nations and territories are taking part in the 2018 Commonwealth Games in the Gold Coast, Australia, with Bermuda fielding an 8-strong team in the event.
Tyler Butterfield, Tre Houston, Tyrone Smith, Kyle Webb, Flora Duffy, Micah Franklin, Erica Hawley and Tyler Smith will all be representing the island, with Tyler Smith — the youngest member of the Bermuda delegation — serving as the flag bearer for the Opening Ceremony.
Women’s History Month Serie: Katura Diving Into Olympic History
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Katura Horton-Perinchief made history without realising it. In 2004 she became the first black woman, in the world, to compete in the Olympics as a diver.
She had a humble start in the sport at the age of seven in Canada, but it wasn’t her only focus.
“I ended up doing figure skating, gymnastics, diving and swimming,” she told Bernews.
“I was always good at things like gymnastics. As long as it wasn’t a ball sport I was good [at it]. As a kid, I did, as most Bermudian kids did, jumped off of boats and bridges.
“I was doing both diving and gymnastics for a long time, but I quit gymnastics when I was 13 because both diving and gymnastics wanted me full-time, so I had to make a decision.”
When she went off to the University of Texas after high school, it was because of her book smarts rather than her diving talents.
Image by: Bernews
