Celebrating 45 years in the Olympic Movement...
The Virgin Islands Olympic Committee...
...a member of the International Olympic Committee...
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Olympics Medal Winners from the V.I.: Peter Holmberg, Silver,
Yachting, Seoul Olympics 1988...*Sugar Ray Seales, Gold, Boxing, *Paul
Hoffman, Silver, Rowing, Munich Olympics 1972
*Virgin Islanders competed for the U.S.
V.I. Basketball Federation to host CAC Championships June 28 to July
7 at University of the Virgin Islands Campus and the new Sports
Complex...visit website at: http://vibf.net/
VOLUNTEERS Make all the successful efforts of the Virgin Islands
Olympic movement possible...
To become an Olympic Volunteer, contact your favorite Federation...
V.I. athletes, Vice-President, appear on NBC's Tonight Show...
Ann Abernathy, Dinah Brown and Dr.Marlon Williams, Vice-President of the VIOC were performers in a light-hearted and obviously impromptu "Street Luge"
competition stage as a live remote segment of the popular Tonight Show with
Jay Leno. The video is floating around the Territory and no doubt
available to those who missed the real thing...
Olympic Solidarity...
Makes it possible for athletes, coaches, officials, NOC to develop...
In 1966 several sports-minded citizens of the Virgin Islands agreed that something had to be done to provide our athletes a better chance to compete on an international level.
The first requirement was to affiliate at least five sports to their respective International Federations by convincing these IF's that these sports: Track & Field, Yachting, Weightlifting, Basketball, Fencing and Volleyball.
As the result of a major lobbying effort to the International Olympic Committee, the Virgin Islands was granted permission to participate on a trial basis in the 1966 San Juan Central American and Caribbean Games. Despite many difficulties, Carl Plaskett, Ivan David, Leston Sprauve, Rudy Thompson and John Hamber won medals and as a result the Virgin Islands was granted full membership status in the IOC.
The VIOC was built on that auspicious beginning and, with the exception of the boycotted 1980 Olympics in Moscow, has sent a team to every Central American & Caribbean, Pan American and Olympic competition since 1966, winning its first Olympic medal at the 1988 Seoul Olympics. The VIOC has grown from its original six federations to 22.
The Virgin Islands is extremely grateful to the Founders: Calvin Wheatley, Julio Frances-Edwards, Verne Callwood, Len Stein, and the late Tracy Jaekel for having the foresight, courage, stamina, and determination to bring the Virgin Islands into the Olympic Arena.