Nearly 900 athletes from 52 countries are in the Bahamas for the sixth World Athletics Relays at the Thomas A. Robinson Stadium in Nassau, starting on Saturday, May 4.
The two-day spectacle serves as the main qualifying event for relay events at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games.
Among the multiple world and Olympic champions who’ve descended on the Bahamian capital are Noah Lyles, Shaunae Miller-Uibo, Marcell Jacobs, and Devynne Charlton.
President of World Athletics, Lord Sebastian Coe, led a media conference for the World Athletics Relays Bahamas 24 on Friday, the eve of the games.
Lord Coe says he’s looking forward to an event “for the ages.”
Lord Sebastian Coe, President of World Athletics.
And Sanya Richards-Ross, who competed at the first two stagings of the 2014 and 2015 editions of the World Relays in the Bahamas, was also at Friday’s media event.
She notched up two victories in the 4x400metres relay plus a world record in the distance medley relay.
Richard-Ross, the 2012 Olympic 400m champion, who now works as a television commentator for NBC, says she’s looking forward to the mixed relays.
Sanya Richards-Ross.
Jamaica will be in the heats of all the relay events on the opening day, starting with the mixed 4x400metres relay at 7.05pm Jamaica time.
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