Bermuda sent a team of six athletes to the Beijing Olympics in 2008, including a 20-year-old triathlete named Flora Duffy.
The official Olympic site notes, “Beijing was the Games of records and superlatives. The Opening Ceremony was unforgettable; the athletes’ achievements were astonishing, the organisation was excellent; the venues, breathtaking and the anti-doping tests were stricter. Several hundred million watched worldwide on TV as more than 40 world records and over 130 Olympic records were broken.
“The National Stadium, nick-named the “Bird’s Nest”, and the National Swimming Centre, known as the “Water Cube”, were both stunning symbols of the new Beijing. In cycling, the road race followed the Great Wall and passed in front of the “Forbidden City”—two symbols of the thousand-year-old history of the city.”
- Location: China
- Athletes: 10942
- Teams: 204
- Bermuda athletes: 6
- Sports Bermuda competed in: Athletics, Equestrian, Swimming & Triathlon
- Athletics: Tyrone Smith and Arantxa King
- Equestrian: Jillian Terceira
- Swimming: Roy-Allan Burch and Kiera Aitken
- Triathlon: Flora Duffy
