Barbados: Let the Games Begin

Posted 8 August 2008 12:31 GMT

Countries	Barbados, Cuba, Jamaica
Topics	Sport, Technology
Languages	English
Special	Olympics

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· Barbados: Que empiecen los Juegos

“Barbados had its flag raising ceremony on Wednesday…no mention of it was placed on the Barbados Olympic Association’s website. Why? Difficulties getting info from out of China. Yet I found links on the web on Jamaica and Cuba’s flag raising ceremonies”: Bajan Global Report thinks that “there is no reason in this mighty age of internet technology that a platform couldn’t have been created to allow athletes to blog on their experiences…”

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