Cayman Islands at the
2014 Winter Olympics
Flag of the Cayman Islands
IOC codeCAY
NOCCayman Islands Olympic Committee
Websitewww.caymanolympic.org.ky
in Sochi
Competitors1 in 1 sport
Flag bearer Dow Travers
Medals
Gold
0
Silver
0
Bronze
0
Total
0
Winter Olympics appearances (overview)

The Cayman Islands sent a delegation to compete at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia from 7–23 February 2014. This was the territory's second appearance at a Winter Olympics, following their debut four years prior. The Caymanian delegation consisted of four officials and one athlete, alpine skier Dow Travers, who failed to complete either of his events.

Background

The Cayman Islands Olympic Committee was first recognized by the International Olympic Committee on 31 December 1975.[1] Cayman Islands then first entered Olympic competition in 1976 at the Montreal Olympics.[2] They have participated in every Summer Olympics since, except the boycotted 1980 Moscow Olympics.[3] The territory has never won a medal in Olympic competition.[2] The Cayman Islands made their Winter Olympic Games debut in Vancouver at the 2010 Winter Olympics.[4] The delegation to Sochi consisted of five people, alpine skier Dow Travers; chef de mission David Carmichael; coach Jake Zamansky; Donald McLean and Bernie Bush, respectively the president and treasurer of the Cayman Islands Olympic Committee.[5][6][7] Travers was selected as the flag bearer for both the opening ceremony and closing ceremony.[8][9]

Alpine skiing

Main article: Alpine skiing at the 2014 Winter Olympics

According to the final quota allocation released on January 20, 2014, the Cayman Islands had one athlete in qualification position.[10] That spot went to Dow Travers, who was 26 years old at the time of the Sochi Olympics.[11] He had previously represented the Cayman Islands at the 2010 Winter Olympics.[11] Travers injured himself in training about a month before the Games, it required stitches and kept him off his skis for around ten days.[12] On 19 February, Travers crashed during the giant slalom competition, and suffered a mild concussion.[13] Two days later, he competed in the slalom, finishing the first leg in a time of 1 minute and 7 seconds,[14] but he failed to finish the second run of the race.[15]

Athlete Event Run 1 Run 2 Total
Time Rank Time Rank Time Rank
Dow Travers[5] Men's giant slalom DNF
Men's slalom 1:07.03 76 DNF

See also

References

  1. ^ "Cayman Islands – National Olympic Committee (NOC)". International Olympic Committee. Archived from the original on 26 March 2018. Retrieved 11 July 2018.
  2. ^ a b "Cayman Islands". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 30 June 2017. Retrieved 1 May 2018.
  3. ^ "54 Boycotted in 1980". The New York Times. 10 May 1984. Archived from the original on 30 January 2018. Retrieved 1 May 2018.
  4. ^ Piestrup, Zeke (1 February 2010). "Cayman Islands to send first ever Winter Olympian to Vancouver: Dow Travers". The Ski Channel. Archived from the original on 22 April 2016. Retrieved 1 May 2018.
  5. ^ a b "Dow Travers leads Cayman's Winter Olympics team". Cayman I News. 5 January 2014. Archived from the original on 11 January 2014. Retrieved 10 January 2014.
  6. ^ Morales, Kevin (2 January 2014). "Travers set to ski at Winter Olympics". Cayman27. Archived from the original on 11 January 2014. Retrieved 10 January 2014.
  7. ^ Shillingford, Ron (10 February 2014). "Travers leads Cayman at Olympics". Cayman Compass. Archived from the original on 21 February 2014. Retrieved 14 February 2014.
  8. ^ "Sochi 2014 Opening Ceremony – Flagbearers" (PDF). International Olympic Committee. Archived (PDF) from the original on 23 March 2018. Retrieved 9 July 2018.
  9. ^ "Sochi 2014 Closing Ceremony – Flagbearers" (PDF). International Olympic Committee. Archived (PDF) from the original on 23 March 2018. Retrieved 9 July 2018.
  10. ^ "Summary of Quota allocation as per 20.01.2014" (PDF). www.fis-ski.com. FIS. 20 January 2014. Archived from the original on 21 February 2014. Retrieved 1 February 2014.
  11. ^ a b "Dow Travers Bio, Stats, and Results". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 29 July 2017. Retrieved 11 July 2018.
  12. ^ Morales, Kevin; Watler, Kevin (3 February 2014). "Travers injured but confident ahead of Winter Olympics". Cayman27. Archived from the original on 25 February 2014. Retrieved 4 February 2014.
  13. ^ Yates, Matthew (21 February 2014). "Travers on track for final run". Cayman Compass. Archived from the original on 24 February 2014. Retrieved 21 February 2014.
  14. ^ "Official Results – Men's Slalom – Run 1" (PDF). International Ski Federation. Archived (PDF) from the original on 11 July 2018. Retrieved 11 July 2018.
  15. ^ "Official Results – Men's Slalom" (PDF). International Ski Federation. Archived (PDF) from the original on 5 March 2016. Retrieved 11 July 2018.

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