The Indian Ocean Island Games semi-finals match between Mauritius and Mayotte ended a few minutes ago. The result is: Mauritius 5 – Mayotte 4 This was actually determined by penalty kicks. Congratulations Mauritius! This means Mauritius has qualified for the finals and will be competing against Seychelles on Saturday’s Finals match. Stay tuned.
When he came up to greet a few people near me, I heard him speaking on the phone and saying “I was not expecting this…” or something along those lines. So I guess he was not expecting the gold medal, but certainly did a great job. Congrats to Bertrand!
If you are following the events, you are bound to see people carrying flags supporting their country. If you require some help in identifying the flags, here’s some piece of visual information:
The finals for the Indian Ocean Island Games Seychelles 2011 swimming event will continue until Wednesday 10th August. I actually went to Stad Linite to watch part of the finals today. It was good, and the highlight of the event for Seychelles was when Shrone Austin brought in the only gold medal for the 200m [...]
Yesterday when I was browsing through the IOIG website and analyzing keyword searches for visitors arriving on my site by typing “jioi” instead of “ioig” (JIOI being Jeux des îles de l’océan Indien or the French translation of Indian Ocean Island Games), it made me realize how weird some people might view our media (newspapers, [...]
This year, Seychelles will be hosting the 8th Indian Ocean Island Games (IOIG). The torch has arrived in Seychelles and is already stationed at Stad Linite, Roche Caiman. It arrived in Seychelles not too long ago; 18th of June from Madagascar where the previous games were held in 2007. Read Nation.sc’s article on this for [...]
