Four Caymanians head to Paris seeking Olympic glory
(CNS): The Cayman Islands Olympic Committee has revealed the four local athletes who are heading to Paris to represent their country at the 2024 Olympic Games later this month. Swimming siblings Jillian Crooks and Jordan Crooks, sprinter Davonte Howell and sailor Charlotte Webster will be the twelfth team to represent Cayman at the Olympics. Howell will run in the Men’s 100m race, and Webster will compete in the Women’s Dinghy event. Jordan Crooks will swim the Men’s 50m and 100m Freestyle events, and his sister Jillian will swim the Women’s 100m Freestyle.
“We are so proud of our athletes and look forward to watching them represent the Cayman Islands on a global stage,” said Cayman Islands Olympic Committee interim President Lori Powell. “They have dedicated countless hours training, travelling and making the sacrifices necessary to reach the pinnacle of sport. On behalf of the CIOC and the Cayman Islands, congratulations.”
This will be an Olympic debut for Jordan Crooks, Howell and Webster, while Jillian Crooks makes her second Olympic appearance. Jordan qualified for both his events by making the Olympics ‘A’ standard at the 2023 World Aquatics Championships in Japan. Jillian Crooks is going into the Games with a career-best of 55.18 seconds at the Commonwealth Youth Games less than a year ago.
Howell, the eighth athlete to represent Cayman in track and field at the Olympics, has a career-best for this season of 10.10 seconds. Webster is following in the footsteps of more than a dozen Caymanian Olympic sailors after she qualified through her performance at the 2023 Pan American Games.
Paris 2024 starts on 26 July and finishes on 11 August. Paris is the main host city, but events will be held in 16 other cities across France.
The rest of the Cayman Islands delegation includes President Powell, the Chef de Mission Shakeina Bush, Swimming Coach Nicholas Kredich, Cayman Islands Swimming Technical Director Jacky Pellerin, Athletics Coach Tyrone Yen, Sailing Coach Raph Harvey, Team Medic Dr Carl Andrew Brown, Team Physio Dr Kristina Bramwell and Press Attaché Kevin Morales.
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Bernie was an awful Minister of Sports and was more effective as Minister of Jokes.
At least he had the brain to see that he was incapable of performing at Minister level and stepped down.
Now Bernie do the right thing and retire from politics and do what you do best. Tell jokes.
Very small entourage, considering the importance of Cayman being represented by our athletes!
I hope FLOW tv carries the Olympics this year!
How is this of any importance to us exactly? It’s a waste of funds.
It’s pretty simple, Skippy. Whenever a country/territory is fortunate enough to have worthy athletes to represent it in the Olympics, it is cause for celebration; these games began in ancient Greece, however in their recent incarnation in 1896.
It isn’t about having a contender. It is about funding those people who qualify, who are good enough to participate. Remember when national pride wasn’t a bad thing? We should rejoice that we have athletes that made the grade to be able to compete. Every country that is now considered to be a shoe-in, once had to struggle to make the grade.
It is the best of the best, and I’m glad (and you should be also) that we are even THERE, considering our diminutive size and people like you that don’t want to spend a dime to support these folk.
Except we only had 2 athletes qualify….I agree with your point 100% for the athletes that qualified
I don’t think we should send athletes who don’t stand a chance of winning a medal. Money could be better spent.
Well said. Better that we don’t give the young people anything to strive for. Especially when it helps build character and they learn the value of hard work and dedication. Better we let them sit around the domino tables and fishing holes with nothing to do all day.
You sir/madam win hands down the dumbest post of 2024. And that is no small achievement.
Obviously anon. @6:41 am didn’t have the ambition to do anything challenging in his/her sorry life.
we waste money on so many terrible things. this is not one of them. Who are you to say they don’t stand a chance? Even if it is true that the odds are against them, is the moral of your story: never try?
Good luck to all the young Caymanians representing the islands. Ignore the naysayers. The have the Combined IQ of room temperature.
Disgraceful that Cayman has one qualified athlete and 3 participants.
Even more so that one has been afforded a free pass for two consecutive Olympiads.
Godspeed to our Caymanian athletes.
Who would down vote this? Odd.
CNS comments are often overflowing with imported envy, hatred, and disdain for the Caymanian people.
just hope they all choose to compete. some caymanian athletes have a history of non-participation when they get there.
Congratulations to all athletes representing the Cayman Islands in the upcoming Olympics. We are very proud of you all.
Huh, 4 athletes and at least TEN officials ????
make it make sence ?????
We need to show how important we are! It’s a joke really. The money spent on sending people who are irrelevant could have been spent on development of athletes. I bet if you ask the 4 athletes they are funded by family
Cayman athletes have to qualify by meeting the Olympic qualifying times. There is no such requirement for officials. If 15 Caymanians had qualified there would still be the same number of Caymanian officials going.
So half of them wouldn’t be able to take their coaches? I’m absolutely certain it’s not capped like that. At the very least you’d have 15 coaches.
How many of them “qualified” ?
Each athlete has a coach. 4 separate events and 4 coaches.
only 3 coaches going as two swimmers one coach. swimming director going for a jolly to show importance
To be fair I loathe waste as much as the next person but 4 coaches, a physio, a medic and a team boss (the “chef”) is the absolute bare bones you could even contemplate. The president and a press guy is probably a bit of a jolly but it’s hardly outrageous especially if they do well and they can generate some good PR. I’m surprised they don’t have a couple of coaches each and an actual team chef/nutritionist too, to be honest.
We are too busy being small minded and cut throat and bad mind to see the value in your statement…sadly
Seems like that all we do, look for reasons to cut down one another!
If the mentioned officials didn’t go and any unfortunate issue occurred with the athletes that could have been prevented or addressed by the attendance of the officials them all of you negative commentators would be screaming about that. Some of you get up at five each morning and hang around until you find something to complain about. Be thankful that we have four young adults able to participate and officials to take care of our athletes while they are representing us at such a grand event.