Cayman Islands at the 2014 Winter Olympics
Cayman Islands at the 2014 Winter Olympics | ||
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Flag bearer Dow Travers | | |
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The
Winter Olympics, following their debut four years prior. The Caymanian delegation consisted of four officials and one athlete, alpine skier Dow Travers
, who failed to complete either of his events.
Background
The
chef de mission David Carmichael; coach Jake Zamansky; Donald McLean and Bernie Bush, respectively the president and treasurer of the Cayman Islands Olympic Committee.[5][6][7] Travers was selected as the flag bearer for both the opening ceremony and closing ceremony.[8][9]
Alpine skiing
According to the final quota allocation released on January 20, 2014, the Cayman Islands had one athlete in qualification position.[10] That spot went to Dow Travers, who was 26 years old at the time of the Sochi Olympics.[11] He had previously represented the Cayman Islands at the 2010 Winter Olympics.[11] Travers injured himself in training about a month before the Games, it required stitches and kept him off his skis for around ten days.[12] On 19 February, Travers crashed during the giant slalom competition, and suffered a mild concussion.[13] Two days later, he competed in the slalom, finishing the first leg in a time of 1 minute and 7 seconds,[14] but he failed to finish the second run of the race.[15]
Athlete | Event | Run 1 | Run 2 | Total | |||
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Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | ||
Dow Travers[5] | Men's giant slalom | DNF | |||||
Men's slalom | 1:07.03 | 76 | DNF |
See also
References
- ^ "Cayman Islands – National Olympic Committee (NOC)". International Olympic Committee. Archived from the original on 26 March 2018. Retrieved 11 July 2018.
- ^ a b "Cayman Islands". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 30 June 2017. Retrieved 1 May 2018.
- ^ "54 Boycotted in 1980". The New York Times. 10 May 1984. Archived from the original on 30 January 2018. Retrieved 1 May 2018.
- ^ Piestrup, Zeke (1 February 2010). "Cayman Islands to send first ever Winter Olympian to Vancouver: Dow Travers". The Ski Channel. Archived from the original on 22 April 2016. Retrieved 1 May 2018.
- ^ a b "Dow Travers leads Cayman's Winter Olympics team". Cayman I News. 5 January 2014. Archived from the original on 11 January 2014. Retrieved 10 January 2014.
- ^ Morales, Kevin (2 January 2014). "Travers set to ski at Winter Olympics". Cayman27. Archived from the original on 11 January 2014. Retrieved 10 January 2014.
- ^ Shillingford, Ron (10 February 2014). "Travers leads Cayman at Olympics". Cayman Compass. Archived from the original on 21 February 2014. Retrieved 14 February 2014.
- ^ "Sochi 2014 Opening Ceremony – Flagbearers" (PDF). International Olympic Committee. Archived (PDF) from the original on 23 March 2018. Retrieved 9 July 2018.
- ^ "Sochi 2014 Closing Ceremony – Flagbearers" (PDF). International Olympic Committee. Archived (PDF) from the original on 23 March 2018. Retrieved 9 July 2018.
- FIS. 20 January 2014. Archivedfrom the original on 21 February 2014. Retrieved 1 February 2014.
- ^ a b "Dow Travers Bio, Stats, and Results". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 29 July 2017. Retrieved 11 July 2018.
- ^ Morales, Kevin; Watler, Kevin (3 February 2014). "Travers injured but confident ahead of Winter Olympics". Cayman27. Archived from the original on 25 February 2014. Retrieved 4 February 2014.
- ^ Yates, Matthew (21 February 2014). "Travers on track for final run". Cayman Compass. Archived from the original on 24 February 2014. Retrieved 21 February 2014.
- International Ski Federation. Archived(PDF) from the original on 11 July 2018. Retrieved 11 July 2018.
- International Ski Federation. Archived(PDF) from the original on 5 March 2016. Retrieved 11 July 2018.
External links
- Cayman Islands at the 2014 Winter Olympics (Sochi2014.com) at the Wayback Machine (archived 25 February 2014)
- Cayman Islands at the 2014 Winter Olympics at SR/Olympics (archived)