Dominica one of ten countries with two athletes in London Olympics
By the TDN Wire Staff
July 24, 2012 9:55 A.M
Dominica at the 2008 Beijing Olympics with former tripple jumper Jerome Romain carrying the flag.
London, England (TDN) -- Dominica is one of only ten countries in the 205 countries on display in the London 2012 Olympics who will field just two athletes. It is the lone Caribbean country with this minimum number joining Mauritania, Gambia, East Timor, Equatorial Guinea, Sao Tome and Principe, Sierra Leone, the British Virgin Islands, Somalia, Bhutan, and Nauru.
The country will be represented by two athletes Luan Gabriel and Erison Hurtault with Joel Hamilton serving as Coach and Chef de Mission.
Sixteen year old Luan Gabriel is a sensational athlete who earlier this year claimed Dominica’s first gold medal ever on the track at the CARIFATA Games, when she won the Girls Under-seventeen 200 metres title in a time of 24.09 seconds.
Gabriel enters the Olympics as an unqualified athlete under the IOC’s universal placement based on gender equity and her inclusion is seen mainly as a way of gaining experience at the highest level.
Dominica first participated in the Olympics in 1996 in Atlanta.
