IOC PRESIDENT IN SENEGAL ON DAY 2 OF AFRICAN TOUR – SEES PREPARATIONS FOR YOUTH OLYMPIC GAMES DAKAR 2022
PRESIDENT THOMAS BACH WAS IN THE SENEGALESE CAPITAL, DAKAR, ON TUESDAY TO SEE THE PROGRESS OF PREPARATIONS FOR THE YOUTH OLYMPIC GAMES (YOG) DAKAR 2022. The YOG in Dakar will be the first Olympic event on the African continent –…
BiiG 2019 Schedule
GET READY TO MARK YOUR CALENDERS! This page presents the official schedule for the 2019 BOA Independence Invitational Games( BiiG), Featuring 28 sports over 42 days. BiiG 2019 will officially run between 29 October and 15 December, with sporting action…
BiiG 2019 Official Launch
During a press briefing held at the Olympic Centre in Wildey, The Barbados Olympic Association Inc. (BOA) and the BiiG LOC announced the launch of this years Barbados Invitational Independence Games (BiiG) 2019. The Games, now in its fourth year,…
Rugby tourney gives away free Barbados vacation
Rugby Barbados World 7s (RBW7s) Tournament Organisers have today officially announced the winner of an exciting social media campaign in collaboration with their North American Travel Partner, JetBlue Vacations. The lucky winner, Jade McGrath, has received a JetBlue Vacations package…
Aquatics Coach on Coaching Scholarship
Aquatics in Barbados is expected to get a boost in the coming months, when Coach Akeem Nurse returns from a 12-week training course at the University of Physical Education in Budapest, Hungary. Nurse recently received an Olympic Solidarity scholarship facilitated…
NOA Hosts Junior Badminton Athletes for Safeguarding Workshop
The National Olympic Academy (NOA) at the Barbados Olympic Association Inc. in collaboration with UNICEF recently hosted a safeguarding workshop for athletes from the Barbados Badminton Association at the Olympic Centre in Wildey. Workshop presenter Robin Parris focused on educating the junior athletes…
Barbados Rugby tourney announces exciting new partnerships
Rugby Barbados World 7s (RBW7s) Tournament Organisers have today officially launched the event to the public by announcing a range of exciting new partnerships, just three months out from the highly-anticipated opening kick-off. This year, the longest-running Club Rugby 7s…
BOA Announces 2019 Annual General Meeting
The Barbados Olympic Association Inc. has announced that its Annual General Meeting (AGM) will be held at the Lloyd Erskine Sandiford Centre, Two Mile Hill, St. Michael on Wednesday, September 18 at 5:00 p.m. President Sandra Osborne is running unopposed…
Gold for Shane Brathwaite at the 2019 Pan Am Games
Congratulations to Shane Brathwaite, gold medalist in the Men’s 110m Hurdles at the 2019 Pan Am Games. Brathwaite produced a season’s best 13.31 seconds with a legal wind of 1.8 metres per second in his race in Lima, Peru. Brathwaite won a bronze medal at the…
Nanyo City Officials Visit the BOA
Olympic solidarity was at its height when officials from Nanyo City, Japan, paid a courtesy visit to the Barbados Olympic Association Inc. (BOA) in Wildey, on Wednesday. A number of participating countries in the Tokyo 2020 Olympics have been paired…
Olympic Week Focuses on Student Development
The Barbados Olympic Association Inc. (BOA) recently hosted students of primary and secondary schools at its Wildey headquarters as part of the activities to commemorate Olympic Day. Olympic Day is celebrated annually around the world in June, to promote fitness,…
BOA Announces Barbados’ 2019 Pan American Games Delegation
The Technical Commission of the Barbados Olympic Association Inc. (BOA) has ratified the final delegation to represent Barbados at the Pan American Games in Lima Peru from July 24 – August 11, 2019. Secretary-General of the BOA and Chairman of…
BOA Celebrates One Year Anniversary To Tokyo 2020 & Going For Gold Launch
On July 24th, at its Wildey Headquarters, The Barbados Olympic Association Inc. (BOA) joins with the Organising Committee of the Tokyo Olympic Games 2020 and other National Olympic Committees across the world to celebrate the One Year Anniversary to the…
Barbados Olympic Association Inc. and the Caribbean Regional Anti-Doping Organization Inc. sign MOU
The Barbados Olympic Association Inc. (BOA) has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the Caribbean Regional Anti-Doping Organization Inc. (Caribbean RADO) to continue housing that agency’s operations at the BOA’s headquarters in Wildey, St. Michael. Caribbean RADO is the…