Yes - over to you, Yorkie. On Jersey, we effectively have 2 parishes that are St. Martin but only one is known as that, which is St Martin de Vieux and Grouville is St Martin de Grouville and as a result, the parish crests are very similar, red and white horizontal stripes (the first one is St Martin, the second Grouville). please log in to view this image please log in to view this image
Cheers Dave. The first coloured athlete at the modern olympic games was in which discipline ? Which country was he representing and in which year ?
It is generally agreed that the first black athlete to compete and win a medal in the Olympic Games was George Poage, an American, who was awarded a bronze medal in the 400m hurdle. It was 1904, the third modern Olympics since the games had been resurrected by Pierre de Coubertin in 1896. In the same afternoon, another AfricanAmerican, Joseph Stadler, received a silver medal for the high jump event and the following day Poage secured another bronze, this time for the 200m hurdle. Not sure if there is an earlier competitor?
Sorry Yorkie...this one did not win an individual medal and was earlier. A clue is that the discipline is no longer an olympic event.
Given the attempts to reinstate it by Warne and Tendulkar, at a guess I will say F Roques who was a member of the French Olympic cricket team in 1900.
You're getting quite close Barry - the year is right and also the country involved. The sport involved here will soon be reintroduced to the Summer olympics but in reduced form.
More clues. The sport was included in 4 of the first 7 modern olympics. In the first one the Germans were awarded the Bronze medal - though nowadays it is not a 'German' sport in any real sense.
The first black athlete to compete at the Olympics was Constantin Henriquez de Zubierafor France in 1900.... Rugby Union... Phew!
