Geoffrey Rowland and team sponsor Mary Perkins of Specsavers were introduced to the Guernsey squad, minus two of its tennis stars, in the Garenne Stand at Foote’s Lane. (Picture by Steve Sarre, 0602824)

THERE are now fewer than a 100 days to go before the start of the third Commonwealth Youth Games.

Last evening, in a reception attended by their patron, the Bailiff Geoffrey Rowland, the Guernsey Commonwealth Games Association officially congratulated the island’s 10-strong team for winning selection to the week-long Games in Pune, India.

The Games promise to be the biggest and best under-18 version of the Commonwealth Games with more than 1,300 elite sportsmen and women from all 71 Commonwealth countries competing between 12 and 18 October.

It will be the biggest assembly of under-18 sporting talent at an international sporting event in 2008.

‘Good luck to your all. You are going to have a fantastic time,’ said the Bailiff at the gathering held in the Garenne Stand, Foote’s Lane.