IS THIS 2003 all over again?

MOMENTS before midnight and Guernsey had completed the most incredible of days to secure the badminton team gold medal against all the odds.

THE Fairway Athletics Centre track seems to bring the best out of Guernsey’s top women sprinters.

LED by the greatest male swimmer the island has ever produced and the 14-year-old female star of now and the future, Guernsey’s swim team made a remarkable start to the Games at Medina last evening.

WE may be only hours into the 2011 NatWest Island Games but already Guernsey’s performance is of gold standard.

IT WAS a shade before two o’clock on day one when David Harry, the Guernsey Velo Club stalwart, made the following delighted observation: ‘We’ve been going eight hours, four gold medals have been up to be won and we [Guernsey] have won them all.’

GUERNSEY top the medals table after a memorable opening day of competition at the 14th NatWest Island Games in the Isle of Wight.

LEE MERRIEN put Guernsey top of the medals table within 75 minutes of the 14th NatWest Island Games opening.

CLAIMS that the 2010 Island Games in the Isle of Wight are under threat have been rubbished as no more than an internal spat triggering a knee-jerk reaction.