Dominica honoured and celebrated Thea Lafond Gadson, the island's historic Olympic gold champion, during the 46th Independence Day ceremonies. Lafond arrived on stage wearing a traditional "Madras Print" attire, escorted by Billy Doctrove, President of the Dominica Olympic Committee, and accepted the accolade from President Sylvanie
In celebration of Independence season, Dominica's own Thea Lafond-Gadson was honoured with the Caribbean Breakthrough Award 2024 at the inaugural Caribbean Association of National Olympic Committees (CANOC) Sports Awards, which took place on October 19, 2024, in Providenciales, Turks and Caicos Islands. This inaugural ceremony
Dominica's first Olympic gold medalist, Thea Lafond Gadson, was honoured with a grand motorcade and celebration concert upon her return home. Thea achieved a world record leap of 15.02 meters in the women's triple jump at the 2024 Paris Olympics, securing the island's first-ever gold medal. In
FOSTER KLUG, ASSOCIATED PRESS—Belated and beleaguered, the virus-delayed Tokyo Summer Olympics finally opened Friday night with cascading fireworks and made-for-TV choreography that unfolded in a near-empty stadium, a colorful but strangely subdued ceremony that set a striking tone to match a unique pandemic Games. As their
STEPHEN WADE, AP NEWS— Tokyo pitched itself as “a safe pair of hands” when it was awarded the Olympics 7 1/2 years ago. “The certainty was a crucial factor,” Craig Reedie, an IOC vice president at the time, said after the 2013 vote in Buenos Aires. Now, nothing
The Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games have been postponed until 2021 due to the ongoing COVID-19 crisis. Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe held a conference call with the head of the International Olympic Committee. “I proposed to postpone for about a year and [IOC] president Thomas Bach
