Mauritius at the African Athletics Championships
May 4, 2008 by zetwal
The championships are over and our “bilan” is two silver medals - not bad for a small country with 1.2 million people.
Congratulations to Stephan Buckland (silver medal - 200m race) and Jonathan Chimier (silver medal - long jump) and to the whole Mauritian team. We’ll do better next time in Osaka :).
Sportsmen in Mauritius
I don’t think that our athletes get the respect they deserve here. They are representing Mauritius on the International scene and yet they get a meagre financial allowance each month. Even worse, when they are injured and can’t participate in tournaments, their already meagre allowance is reduced - the logic is: you are not running, so u won’t get paid! What the crap? If tomorrow the Minister of Youth and sports is ill, is his salary cut?
Also, our sportsmen are among the few people who have a page on Wikipedia and yet, it’s nearly empty. It’s time someone (I unfortunately can’t do it since I don’t know enough about these guys), for example at the Ministry of Sports and Youth, fills up their page!
its always a pleasure watching em on tv and having that excitement that .. “mauritius will kick ass tonight”!
As far as wikipedia :p you could for a start write a bit, then someone else will correct if there’s a mistake .. then someone else will etc.. etc.. etc.. :p Maybe i’ll write it up first :p
Hello the name is Stephan Buckland and not Sephan Buckland. Be careful
Sorry my mistake. Will be corrected immediately.
The fact is that Buckland shines in Africa but not elsewhere now. His performances are stuttering and I’ll think he’ll call it a day by 2010.
Hi there,
It seems that, finally, there’s a lot of interest for Mauritian Athletics, most particularly cocnerning Stéphan Buckland and Jonathan Chimier.
Therefore I will recommend you to visit AthleticsMauritius.com a website devoted to athletics and its local heroes.
And if you want to learn more about Stéphan Buckland, you can visit his website at http://www.stephanbuckland.com and also you can read a complete bio of Stephan Buckland at http://www.iaaf.org/news/athletes/newsid=27098.html
Kind regards,
webmaster (AthleticsMauritius.com)
“Proudly African, excitedly Mauritian”