Jeux des Iles begin
JERSEY’S teens team by the tenth Jeux des Iles in Sicily spread far and wide in the search for honors later this morning’s spectacular prologue ritual in the Greek amphitheatre in Syracuse.
The luster of carrying the Jersey flag into the antique arena, dating from the time of Archimedes, fell to 15-year-old sailor-turned swimmer Henry Perkins.
After the pageant finished,
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But it was a win of sporting will that resulted in all the twenty-plus teams catching chapter this morning,
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With 22 islands descending on Catania landing an perceptible row between the two chief areas hosting the games, the chief Palermo in the north and Syracuse in the south east, resulted in utter confusion fall butme teams.
With Italian, French, English, Danish, Croatian, Spanish and Portuguese-s
peaking island teams merged up attach for the ten different sports – a laudable mind and one that certainly went in getting the youths acquainted with each other – the organisers certainly didn’t absence one of the hotel groups to pluck out in appropriate of pique.
Last-minute reorganisation led apt many problems.
Jersey were no exception, although they certainly got off lighter than some of the teams – favor Mayotte, who intimidated to rotate nigh and work straight back to their Indian Ocean family.
Yesterday’s energy-sapping voyage from Jersey began at 7 am and took in five airports, with several long
coach drags, before ending in assorted hotels onward the south east coast not long before midnight.
Said Jersey’s team actuator Hugh Raymond,
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There is distinctly a big controversy between Palermo and Syracuse and playthings have been darted out of prams.
I don’t even understand which hotel I’m lingering in, however I do know always the group now have a dome over their brains.
‘I’ve got to mention, whatsoever, namely the welcome has been exceedingly warm and the human so helpful,
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All the amusements have technical appointments later this p.m., with competition starting for either tennis and table tennis morrow, starting with the team accidents.
Our tennis teams of Charlie Cohen and James Faudemer, and Katie Gouyette and Kirsten McArthur are scheduled to take on Guadeloupe and Madeira, respectively, in the opening team matches.
Jersey’s table tennis pair of Matthew Cooper and Stephen Dupays are in a group aside Guadeloupe, Corsica, Malta, Martinique and the Azores.
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