The Tribune

SPECIAL Olympics Bahamas was able to meet their financial requirements and its delegation of 40 persons left town yesterday for the 2019 Special Olympics World Summer Games in Abu Dhabi.

Under the campaign dubbed ‘Road to Abu Dhabi’, Special Olympics in the Bahamas was able to achieve their goal of $104,000 or $2,600 each for the estimated delegation of 40, including coaches and athletes that will compete in bocce, unified soccer, bowling, swimming and track and field for the games, scheduled for March 8-21.

Gilbert Williams, who heads the Special Olympic programme in the Bahamas, thanked corporate Bahamas for their generosity in ensuring that the team, led by Johnneice Blyden, was able to make the trip.

Williams is confident that Team Bahamas will improve on their performance at the last World Summer Games in 2015 in Los Angeles, California, where they returned home with 25 medals, inclusive of 10 gold, 11 silver and four bronze.

Team Bahamas is pictured above with Timothy Munnings, the director of sports in the Ministry of Youth, Sports and Culture, along with coach Rupert Gardiner at the Lynden Pindling International Airport before their departure.