Time to celebrate our first Olympic heroes

Mon, Oct 20th 2014, 01:15 PM

 

THIS week the country will officially commemorate the greatest achievement in Bahamian sports – the historic winning of the first Olympic gold medal.
On Thursday the Bahamas Olympic Committee, in conjunction with the Ministry of Youth, Sports and Culture, will honour the 50th anniversary of the gold medal winning performance of legendary skipper Sir Durward Knowles and his crew, the late Cecil Cooke, at the 1964 Games in Tokyo, Japan...

THIS week the country will officially commemorate the greatest achievement in Bahamian sports – the historic winning of the first Olympic gold medal.

On Thursday the Bahamas Olympic Committee, in conjunction with the Ministry of Youth, Sports and Culture, will honour the 50th anniversary of the gold medal winning performance of legendary skipper Sir Durward Knowles and his crew, the late Cecil Cooke, at the 1964 Games in Tokyo, Japan...

 

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