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Cross country skier Tucker Murphy will make his Olympic debut next Monday at the Whistler Olympic Park.

Tonight he will have the honour of carrying in the flag at the Opening Ceremony in Vancouver.

"I'm just looking forward to doing Bermuda proud," Murphy said. "There's a lot of buzz around the village with people from all different countries."

Murphy will be accompanied in Vancouver by Bermuda Olympic Association president Judy Simons, association secretary general Philip Guishard, chef de mission Carol Bromby, Argentinean coach Martin Bianchi and manager Michael Murphy.

Skeleton slider Patrick Singleton was still waiting for his second appeal to be heard in his last ditch effort to make the Games.

As of press time last night, a ruling had not been made on his appeal.

Barring Singleton's late inclusion, Bermuda will be one of 11 countries with just one athlete in the games.

This is the island's sixth appearance at the Winter Games. Prio to Murphy, Bermuda was represented by Simon Payne in luge twice and Patrick Singleton in luge once and skelton twice.

For once, Bermudians should have a wide variety of options in watching the Games.

VSB 11 will be showing almost non-stop NBC coverage of the Olympics.

Local cable companies, Bermuda CableVision and WOW, have joined together to offer extended coverage of the Olympic Winter Games, taking place in Vancouver, Canada, from February 12 to 28, 2010.

Bermuda CableVision has received the territorial rights to broadcast coverage of the Olympic Winter Games and has shared these rights with WOW to ensure that Bermuda residents can watch the full footage.

Subscribers will be able to watch live and pre-recorded coverage of the event across a wide variety of channels.

Bermuda CableVision and WOW will also be showing an additional feed of the coverage, including footage of the opening and closing ceremonies.

To view this, CableVision subscribers should tune into channel 99 and WOW customers, channel 103.

Terry Roberson, General Manager of Bermuda CableVision, says: "We are sponsoring coverage of the Olympic Games as we feel they are an important international sporting and cultural event. We wanted to ensure, through our agreement with WOW, that the full splendour of Vancouver 2010 could be enjoyed by Bermuda residents at their convenience."

Stanley Wright, President & CEO of WOW, says: "We realise the popularity and social relevance of Olympic programming to our subscribers.

We have worked closely with Bermuda CableVision to make Olympic coverage a reality.

The Olympic Winter Games are rich and diverse in content and lend themselves to simultaneous coverage across multiple channels."

Over 80 countries will be competing in this year's Olympic Winter Games, which are expected to draw 3 billion television viewers from around the world.

The Vancouver 2010 programme includes sports as diverse as: skiing, biathlon, bobsleigh, curling, figure skating, ice hockey, snowboarding and ski jumping. For further information, event scheduling and results, viewers can visit www.vancouver2010.com.

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