Million dollar response from 2008 Olympic flag bearer, Niall Roberts

Dear Editor,

Niall Roberts: Olympian (Aquatics) and flag bearer of “The Golden Arrowhead” at the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games (29th Olympiad).

The million dollar response from a private audience with this Olympian reads the following: “As an athlete, it’s your biggest dream to compete at the highest level possible. To compete at the Olympics, to have the title ‘Olympian’, I have not had a better feeling, was never more proud and will not have a greater honour that night walking into the stadium during the opening ceremony of the Beijing 2008 Olympics, and carrying my country’s flag, high and proud. I saw myself on the big screen, got cold, my skin grew all over, my hair on my hands were up and I almost cried.” This in my books represents a lifelong memory which is un-erasable.

Yours faithfully

T Pemberton

Additional Guyanese Flag Bearers are as follows:

1972 Munich, Germany: Gordon Sankies

1984 Los Angeles USA: Earl Haley

1988 Seoul South Korea: Alfred Thomas

1996 Atlanta USA: John Douglas

2000 Sydney Australia: Aliann Pompey

2004 Athens Greece: Aliann Pompey

2008 Beijing China: Niall Roberts

2012 ? ? Who’s next?

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