Sochi News

Nanjing 2014 Youth Olympic Games athletes to be announced at Olympic Day celebration. Sochi 2014 Olympian to receive Olympic Participant Pin

June 17, 2014 by bvioc

Corrected to reflect new location and start time of Children’s Triathlon

The young athletes confirmed to represent the Virgin Islands at the Nanjing 2014 Youth Olympic Games in swimming, sailing and athletics will be announced this Saturday, June 21 at the Tortola Sports Club during Olympic Day celebrations.

The afternoon programme of events will take place between 4.00pm and 6.00pm and will include a special presentation of the Olympic Participant Pin by the Ministry of Education, Culture and Sports to Peter Adam Crook, the VI’s half-pipe skier at the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympic Games. The annual, symbolic Olympic Day 2-mile walk/run will close out the activities. The 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 Ephraim Penn, President of the BVIOC. “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.”

The Nanjing 2014 Youth Olympic Games will take place in Nanjing, China from August 16 – 28, approximately six months after the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympic Games during which the VI was represented in the half-pipe ski event by Peter Adam Crook.

“Olympic Day is an occasion to highlight the Olympic values of Respect, Excellence, and Friendship,” noted Penn. “The philosophy requires us to be responsible citizens and to work towards unity through Respect for what has been entrusted to us, striving for Excellence in all that we do, and to foster local and global Friendships. He may not have achieved the score-board results hoped for, but Adam most recently demonstrated these values during his time at the Olympics in Sochi, Russia and this will be a fitting occasion to recognize his contribution to the Virgin Islands’ Olympic history.”

The activities, supported by Road Town Wholesale, distributors of Dasani and Coca Cola, will start at 4.00pm when runners and walkers can register for the symbolic Olympic Day walk/run. Participants will start from the Tortola Sports Club (TSC) at 4.45pm and will proceed west through Road Town and return to the sports club. Participants will receive a free tee-shirt and a certificate of participation on completion of the walk/run.

The Olympic Day run in Virgin Gorda will start at 6.30am (registration 6.00am) from the The Virgin Gorda Centre, HLSCC, The Valley. For details, contact Gloreah Gibson at gloreahgibson@hotmail.com or tel: 547-7404. The BVI Triathlon Federation will host a Children’s Olympic Day Triathlon at Smuggler’s Cove at 10:00am following on from the annual Summer Splash (corrected information). For details, contact Richard Morgan on 346-6002.

For more information on Olympic Day please contact Cleave Farrington, Executive Director of the BVIOC, by phone at 542 1007 or 496 6007 or by email at cmfarrington@bviolympics.org.

Filed Under: Athletics, BVI Olympic Committee, Nanjing News, Sailing, Sochi News, Swimming

Get clued up on the halfpipe ski event at Sochi 2014 Winter Olympic Games

February 17, 2014 by bvioc

Peter Adam Crook completing a Switch 7 Blunt during halfpipe practice run at Rosa Khutor Extreme Park, Sochi 2014

BVI competitor, Adam Crook’s on-site practice for the freestyle halfpipe ski event at the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympic Games began on Friday, February 14. Adam took in several runs in the halfpipe at the Rosa Khutor Extreme Park and came away happy to have started the sessions in the run up to the competition on Tuesday, February 18.

The freestyle halfpipe ski event starts at 9.45am AST (BVI time) and will be shown live at Captain Mulligan’s, Nanny Cay. Highlights are expected to be broadcast in the evening on NBC and SportsMax channels and viewers are advised to contact their service providers for information on timing and channels.

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Filed Under: BVI Olympic Committee, Skiing, Sochi News

Exhibition highlights VI’s sports for Sochi 2014 and Glasgow 2014

October 30, 2013 by bvioc

BVI’s half-pipe skier for Winter Olympic Fames Sochi 2014, Peter Adam Crook answers questions at the BVIOC’s multi sport exhibition

The BVI Ski Association, the BVI Athletics Association, the BVI Swimming Association, and the BVI Squash Rackets Association presented their respective sports to a rapt audience at an interactive exhibition hosted by the BVI Olympic Committee at the Tortola Sports Club last Saturday. The morning event highlighted the upcoming Winter Olympic Games Sochi 2014, and the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games in which qualified athletes will represent the Virgin Islands.

Peter Adam Crook (Adam), who earlier last week was officially presented as the territory’s half-pipe skier for Sochi 2014, and Joe Chapman, squash player for the VI in Glasgow 2014 presented their respective sports in the glass-fronted squash courts to a public that previously had very little exposure to either half-pipe skiing or squash.
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Filed Under: Athletics, BVI Olympic Committee, Glasgow News, Skiing, Sochi News, Squash, Swimming Tagged With: BVI Athletics Association, BVI Ski Association, BVI Squash Rackets Association, BVI Swimming Association, BVIAA, Caribbean RADO, Glasgow 2014, Joe Chapman, Joe Kneipp, Peter Adam Crook, Sochi 2014, WADA

Crook confirmed to represent VI at Winter Olympics

October 22, 2013 by bvioc

By: Charlie Jackson

(l-r) BVIOC executive officer, Cleave Farrington, BVI Ski Association president, Barny Crook, BVIOC president, Ephraim Penn, the [British] Virgin Islands’ newest Olympian, Peter Adam Crook, and BVIOC secretary general, Lloyd Black.

Peter Adam Crook was confirmed on October 22, as just the second athlete from the [British] Virgin Islands to take part in a Winter Olympics, when he heads to Sochi, Russia, 2014.

Crook, who was born in the Territory, will be just 21 when he takes to the slopes in his favoured event, the Half Pipe, at the Sochi Games. In doing so, he will be joining the late Speed Skater Errol Frazer, as a Winter Olympian.

Ephraim Penn, the BVI Olympic Committee president, welcomed Crook to the fold of Olympians acknowledging that Crook had worked hard to achieve his goal and had the full support of the BVIOC.
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Filed Under: BVI Olympic Committee, Skiing, Sochi News

VI heading to Winter Olympic Games Sochi 2014 and XX Commonwealth Games Glasgow 2014

October 18, 2013 by bvioc

BVIOC to launch awareness campaign at interactive, multi-sports exhibition

The Virgin Islands will be represented in the half-pipe ski event at the Winter Olympic Games Sochi 2014, and in squash, swimming, and athletics at the XX Commonwealth Games Glasgow 2014. In April 2014, the Glasgow 2014 Queen’s Baton Relay will be in the VI.

The BVI Olympic Committee in collaboration with the BVI Athletics Association, the BVI Ski Association, the BVI Squash Racquets Association, and the BVI Swimming Association will host a free, interactive, multi-sports exhibition at the Tortola Sports Club on Saturday, October 26, 2014 from 8.30am – 12.00pm to showcase these international games, the sports, and some of the athletes who will be representing the VI.

The 10th edition of the World Conference on Sport and the Environment will take place in Sochi, Russia ahead of the Olympic Winter Games

July 18, 2013 by bvioc

Conference topics

Under the Conference theme “Changing Today for a Better Tomorrow”, some of the key topics to be discussed are: A Collective Vision for Sustainable Development, the new Sustainability Development Goals (SDGs), Russian Legacies pre- & post-Sochi 2014, the sustainable development landscape following Rio+20, and showcasing legacies of the Olympic Games and Olympic bids for sustainable development, as well as highlighting the UN system.

IOC Sport and Environment Awards

As has been the tradition since 2009, the winners of the 3rd IOC Sport and Environment Awards – recognising and celebrating outstanding grassroots initiatives in the field of sustainable sport and the environment – will be announced during the opening ceremony of the Conference. A dedicated session has therefore been incorporated into the Conference programme, to enable the awardees to present their innovative and winning projects. Nominations for the Awards can be submitted by National Olympic Committees, International Federations, Continental Associations and Recognised Organisations until 2 September 2013.
Learn more about this year’s Sport and Environment Awards here

Background information

The event is organised in partnership with the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), the Russian government, the Russian Olympic Committee and the Organising Committee of the Olympic Games in Sochi 2014. This edition follows one year after the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (UNCSD), often abbreviated to Rio+20, which was a key moment in the global sustainability agenda. Indeed, Rio+20 saw a renewal of the sporting community’s long-term and political commitment to sustainable development.
The biennial Conference is one of the IOC’s key advocacy initiatives in the field of the environment, and usually attracts hundreds of representatives from the Olympic family, governments, the UN system, academic institutions and NGOs.

Filed Under: BVI Olympic Committee, Sochi News