British Virgin Islands Team ready for London 2012
BVIOC - Saturday, July 21st, 2012 at 12:33 PM
London 2012 qualifier, Ms Tahesia Harrigan-Scott will be the flag bearer at the opening ceremony for the London 2012 Summer Olympic Games on Friday, July 27. The British Virgin Islands Olympic Committee is inviting the public to the Tortola Sports Club to watch the live broadcast of the parade of all competing nations and the entrance of the Olympic Flame, which ignites the Cauldron and signals the start of the Games.
The broadcast is expected to start at 4.00pm.
Tahesia Harrigan-Scott, who qualified for the Games last year, will represent the BVI in the women’s 100m event. She will run in the preliminaries on August 3. Chantel Malone, Karene King, and Ashley Kelly were three of the hopefuls to have narrowly missed the qualifying marks for London 2012.
“This is the eighth consecutive Summer Olympic Games in which the BVI will be represented,” said Ephraim Penn, BVIOC President. “I know that the BVIOC echoes the nation in expressing its pride and support for Tahesia’s best efforts in her event. We also want to acknowledge the hard work and the tireless commitment from the other athletes who represented the BVI in the series of international competitions in the lead up to the Games with hopes of shaving off fractions of a second to make the qualifying times for London 2012. We are equally proud of their achievements to date and we look forward to supporting their endeavours as they prepare for the future Games including the Rio 2016 Summer Olympic Games.”
As part of its mandate, the BVIOC will provide support to athletes participating in the upcoming Central American and Caribbean Games (2014), the Commonwealth Games (2014), the Winter Olympic Games (2014), the Pan American Games (2015), as well as the Summer Olympic Games (2016).
J’Maal Alexander, a BVI national record holder with the fastest track time in his age group, will run in the men’s 100m. His participation in London 2012 resulted from an International Olympic Committee (IOC) invitation for the BVI to send a non-qualifying, wild card. The Ministry of Culture, Education and Sport took the opportunity to send Mr. Alexander to experience the Olympic Games.
The athletes are accompanied by national coach and Chef de Mission, Mr Dag Samuels, personal coach, Mr Winston Potter, physicians Dr Tattersall and Dr LEsperance, and physiotherapist, Dr Salcedo. The delegation will be accommodated in the Olympic Village during the Games.
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