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Falklands is first team to arrive for the Island Games in Bermuda

Monday, July 8th 2013 - 06:56 UTC
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Bermuda welcomed this weekend the first arriving team for the upcoming Island Games, with the Falkland Islands ten-strong badminton team arriving from Gatwick, London, with many of the team having flown from the Falklands to the UK on an RAF flight. Read full article

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  • Benson

    Good luck lads.

    Jul 08th, 2013 - 08:45 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • ljb

    Best of British luck guys.

    Jul 08th, 2013 - 10:37 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • ChrisR

    I suppose the agies, aka known as the Seagull Team, will be along soon.

    Just ask if you don't know what a Seagull team is.

    Jul 08th, 2013 - 01:31 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Conor J

    @3
    Now you've got mw curious. So whats a Seagull team?

    Jul 08th, 2013 - 03:40 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Pete Bog

    Good Luck guys-at least the best people realise you exist.

    Jul 08th, 2013 - 03:59 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • A_Voice

    ..........bet they don't want to go back home.......Hey..... what's that big yellow thing in the sky?

    Jul 08th, 2013 - 05:54 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • screenname

    hope they get a chance to have a word with athletes/media from Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

    Jul 08th, 2013 - 06:03 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • ChrisR

    @4

    It stems from before I started my own businesses and I worked for a number of large multinationals.

    Their way of 'managing' a disparate business was to hold monthly meetings with the local management to discuss 'the figures'.

    They were known as the Seagull Team because they flew in, squawked a lot, ate all the food, crapped everywhere and flew out!

    It was of course all different when I was appointed to divisional responsibility and joined one of the teams: I ate all the pies!

    LOLs

    Jul 08th, 2013 - 06:17 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Briton

    Good luck,
    and may the force be with you,

    Jul 08th, 2013 - 06:33 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Benson

    You're right A_Voice, when we see a yellow thing surrounded by blue and white we think we're being invaded again.

    Jul 09th, 2013 - 07:48 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Vestige

    They'll bring back tales of heated swimming pools, huge shops they call supermarkets and places with ...like some giant tele that people watch together in a big dark room...screen were bigger than 10 sheep stacked 'igh.
    No....I exaggerate, they're well accustomed to such modern social trappings...given they spend half their lifetime in England.
    Club Falklandcana holiday camp.

    Jul 09th, 2013 - 12:12 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Benson

    They had heated swimming pools in Argentina as well, but not any more they can't afford to heat them.

    Jul 09th, 2013 - 02:32 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Steve-33-uk

    Quiet times in the RG media...

    'BOOK PRESENTS “VISIONS ON FALKLAND URUGUAYAN” - The Uruguay Defense Minister Eleuterio Fernandez Huidobro, will head tomorrow in the Legislative Palace in Montevideo the launch of “Visions Uruguay over Malvinas”, in which representatives from politics and local culture give views on Argentine archipelagos...'
    http://noticias.terra.com.ar/politica/presentan-libro-visiones-uruguayas-sobre-malvinas,4317a6faad0bf310VgnCLD2000000ec6eb0aRCRD.html

    'CONCORDIA WAS MADE IN THE TRADITIONAL PROCESSION FOR JULY 9 - ...He stressed further that these “remnants of colonialism” could be seen a few days ago, when the “imperialist powers hijacked the president of Bolivia, Evo Morales.” So called on citizens to “remember” and keep working to “consolidate the draft country that understands that sovereignty is only with social inclusion”...'
    http://noticias.terra.com.ar/politica/presentan-libro-visiones-uruguayas-sobre-malvinas,4317a6faad0bf310VgnCLD2000000ec6eb0aRCRD.html

    Jul 09th, 2013 - 06:41 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Pete Bog

    @6
    Hey..... what's that big yellow thing in the sky?

    The sun does not appear yellow in the FI-it is white-and there are lots of sunshine hours in the Falklands

    @11
    “They'll bring back tales of heated swimming pools”

    Why? There's been a swimming pool in Stanley since 1990-and an out
    door pool called Surf Bay (amongst others).

    When they return to the Falklands they won't be told bullsh1t by their leaders, their ships don't sink and they won't get mugged-keep BA

    Jul 09th, 2013 - 07:53 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Monty69

    11 Vestige
    You're an idiot. You have no idea about life in the Falklands.
    We have supermarkets, a heated swimming pool, and a cinema at MPA. No-one apart from some retired people spend half their time away.
    We have dangerously bright sunshine for much of the year.
    Educate yourself and stop looking like a tit.

    Jul 10th, 2013 - 05:02 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Tim

    Good luck to the Falklands Team; you're on my ancestral island and my family DNA is in all the old families. We produced a lot of females so our family name has been daughtered out, but still going strong in Argieland

    Jul 11th, 2013 - 03:10 am - Link - Report abuse 0

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