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                               is this
                                     the

                           year for






               Dylan Carter is swimming            Trinidad & Tobago has been graced with just over two consecutive

                   at the Olympics twenty          decades of world-class swimming, thanks in the main to two athletes
                                                   in the pool: George Bovell III and Dylan Carter.
                years after George Bovell
                   won this country’s first         For the recorded history dating back to 2000 until the present time,
                                                   Bovell – who hung up his goggles and trunks after the 2016 Rio
                 ever Olympic swimming             Olympics - and Carter - still an active swimmer - have combined to
                medal in Athens, Greece.           splash proudly for Team TTO on the world stage, earning several
                      Mark Pouchet looks           international podium finishes that have marked that period.
                   forward to the Carter’s         Dylan Carter made his Olympic debut at the Brazil Olympiad where
                chances and pays tribute           Bovell made his exit. The 2016 Games was almost a natural
                                                   progression for the then 20-year-old after a 2013 World Junior 50m
                       to the great Bovell.        butterfly silver medal success and a silver and bronze at the World
                                                   Youth Olympics in Nanjing China in 2014, all achieved on the heels
                                                   of a successful age-group career.





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