Topic: Cayman Olympic pioneers

Among the thousands of athletes to arrive in Barcelona, Spain, in the summer of 1992, was Caymanian long jumper and sprinter Kareem Streete-Thompson, who was making his Olympic debut.

At the last Olympic Games of the Cold War, in the city of Seoul, South Korea, was a determined Caymanian-American woman ready to make history as Cayman’s first runner in athletics at the Games.

The first time that the Cayman Islands flag was ever seen at the Montréal Olympic Games was in 1976, when a duo of sunburnt Caymanian sailors graced the waters of Lake Ontario in Canada.

Throughout June, the Cayman Compass will be publishing a series on Caymanians who first represented their beloved isles on the grandest stage of sports...