Belizean Athlete Shaun Gill Proudly Represents at 2024 Paris Olympics

Belizean athlete Shaun Gill proudly represented the country today at the Opening of the 2024 Olympic Games being held in Paris, France. Gill is the country’s only athlete and flag bearer at the games and flew the flag during this year’s opening which featured participating athletes traveling upriver on boats. He is joined in Paris by Cojac Smith, President of the Belize Athletics Association, and Giovanni Alamilla, Belize’s Head of Mission. Gill will be competing in the preliminary round of the 100-meter race tomorrow. This marks Gill’s second time representing Belize at this level, having competed in the previously competed in the 2021 Tokyo Olympics, where he had a completion time of 10.88 seconds in the Preliminary Round. Hilberto Martinez President of the Belize Olympic and Commonwealth Games Association (BOCGA), and the association’s Secretary General Allan Sharp are also in France for the opening of the Summer Olympics.