St Lucia - April 2022Joyce Huxley was only supposed to stay in St Lucia for a year, but she never went home.

organise the transport between them and all the rest of it...Commonwealth Youth Games winning sprinter Julien

Alfred could be one to watch for St Lucia at Birmingham 2022 ©Getty Images"But I'm very confident that

 A medal hope in Birmingham for St Lucia could be sprinter Julien Alfred, who competes in the 100

 Alfred won gold in the 100m at the 2017 Commonwealth Youth Games in The Bahamas - where the country's

Chef de Mission at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games.Since November, the SLOC has been led by new President Alfred

Cook Islands won the Pacific Games netball title for the first time in 28 years after a last-second point earned them a 44-43 victory over Tonga.

podium.The men's 105 kg saw Josh Cook victorious, beating Samoa's Titi Misili Penieli into second and Alfred

gold for Samoa, winning the +120 kg discipline, as Papua New Guinea's Vagi Henry and New Caledonia's Julien

gold in 27:47, followed also by a pair from New Caledonia, Benoit Riviere finishing in 28:11 and Lopez Julien

Home favourites Anuoluwapo Juwon Opeyori and Dorcas Ajoke Adesokan won the respective men’s and women’s singles titles as action concluded today at the All-African Badminton Championships in Port Harcourt in Nigeria.

Second seed Opeyori beat compatriot Godwin Olofua 21-17, 16-21, 21-17 in the men’s final at Alfred Diete

Clement Krobakpo, 21-10, 21-8 in the semi-finals.Olofua overcame defending champion and top seed Georges Julien

Georges Julien Paul and Kate Foo Kune of Mauritius remain on course to retain their titles after they

tournament, needed three games to get past Johanita Scholtz of South Africa in their quarter-final clash at Alfred

Egyptian fourth seed Doha Hany, who overcame Allisen Camille of the Seychelles 21-17, 21-10.Georges Julien

Defending champions Georges Julien Paul and Kate Foo Kune of Mauritius progressed to the quarter-finals

Paul, the top seed in the men's competition, swept aside Mohamed Belarbi of Algeria 21-10, 21-13 at Alfred

Hosts Nigeria narrowly got the better of Mauritius in the final as the mixed team event concluded today at the All-African Badminton Championships in Port Harcourt.

the home nation’s duo of Anuoluwapo Opeyori and Dorcas Adesokan combined to beat Mauritius' Georges Julien

Paul and Kate Foo Kune 21-19, 21-19 in the decisive mixed doubles contest at Alfred Diete Spiff Civic

The Executive Board of the Saint Lucia Olympic Committee (SLOC) has praised the young sprinter Julien

Alfred after she won a silver medal in the women's 100 metres at the Youth Olympic Games in Buenos Aires

Alfred won Saint Lucia's first ever Youth Olympic medal after she came second in the final with a time

Julien has really done us proud," SLOC President Fortuna Belrose said."

won Saint Lucia's first medal at the Youth Olympic Games.Saint Lucia's Olympic Committee has praised Julien

Alfred after the sprinter won silver at the Buenos Aires Youth Olympics ©Getty Images"In fact, if you

recall, Julien has now distinguished herself as a junior athlete.