Bahamas to host World Relays again in 2024 & More Trending News
The Bahamas workforce of Michael Mathieu, Shaunae Miller-Uibo, Anthonique Strachan and Steven Gardiner have fun after profitable gold on the World Relays in 2017.
By BRENT STUBBS
Senior Sports Reporter
AFTER a profitable marketing campaign, The Bahamas has been re-awarded the rights to host the World Relays for the fourth time.
On Wednesday on the World Athletic Council assembly in Rome, World Athletics’ president Lord Sebastian Coe introduced that The Bahamas has been awarded the internet hosting of the 2024 World Athletic Relays on the Thomas A. Robinson National Stadium in April or May, a date to be confirmed by the Bahamas Association of Athletic Associations.
“We have had three wonderful editions of the World Athletics Relays in Nassau, which established this event on the global calendar, so we know we are in safe hands for what will be an important Olympic qualifier for all our relay events,” Coe mentioned.
“We are confident that The Bahamas will offer the best conditions for the athletes and a brilliant atmosphere for both athletes and fans as we mark a key milestone on the road to the Paris Olympic Games.”
The World Athletics Relays return to The Bahamas after it hosted the primary three editions in 2014, 2015 and 2017 and earlier than it was moved to Yokohama, Japan in 2019 due to monetary difficulties. The final and fifth version of the occasion was held in Chorzow, Poland in 2021.
The 2024 World Athletics Relays can even function the primary qualifier for groups taking part in the lads’s and girls’s 4 x 100 and 4 x 400 and blended 4 x 400m metre relays for the 2024 Olympics in Paris, France.
BAAA president Drumeco Archer, who led the pitch for The Bahamas together with Deputy Prime Minister Chester Cooper, was thrilled that The Bahamas gained the bid to deliver the occasion to its unique dwelling.
“We are extremely excited for the long-awaited homecoming of the World Athletics Relays 2024 and we’re grateful to the World Athletics Council for contemplating The Bahamas because the host metropolis for this all-important occasion,” Archer mentioned.
“The BAAA family and stakeholders will be standing at the seashores and airports with the banner of athletics waving high as we welcome the world of athletics and sporting enthusiasts back to our shores.”
Archer, who’s in search of to be returned as president of the BAAA throughout its election of officers on Saturday, mentioned there’s mutual pleasure with the Government of The Bahamas.
“Both the Government of The Bahamas and the BAAA intend to make the fourth hosting of this event the most ‘Bahamazing’ experience of them all,” he summed up.
The Bahamas introduced a brand new expertise to the internet hosting of the World Athletics Relays with the rhythmic sound of junkanoo music, a vibrant backdrop with the introduction of groups into the TAR Stadium and the awarding of medals instantly after the occasions.
Bahamas to host World Relays again in 2024
Bahamas to host World Relays again in 2024
info with out going by means of us first, so we are able to present you the newest and biggest information with out costing you a dime. The two of you could be taught the specifics of the information collectively, providing you with a leg up. We’ll get to the following step when somewhat time has gone.
Our aim is to maintain you up-to-date on all the most recent information from across the globe by posting related articles on our web site, so that you could be at all times be one step forward. In this fashion, you will by no means fall behind the newest developments in that information.
Bahamas to host World Relays again in 2024