Video: Bermuda Take Part In Opening Ceremony

July 8, 2023

Bermuda’s travelling party of more than 70 athletes received the warmest of Guernsey welcomes at the NatWest International Island Games opening ceremony tonight [July 8].

Held along a packed St Peter Port seafront, Bermuda’s team looked resplendent in their pink, blue and white tracksuits, referencing the island’s unique natural attributes such as the blue water and pink sand.

Fittingly, Gavin Manders, the tennis captain and Bermuda’s most successful Island Games athlete, carried the island’s flag during the athletes’ parade, after which he displayed a T-shirt he was wearing in tribute to national team footballer Marco Warren, who died in a hit-and-run incident in May.

Badminton players Dezirae Darrell and Somers Stevenson performed the water-carrying duties during the water ceremony, involving the symbolic mixing of waters, the Island Games equivalent of lighting the Olympic flame.