Olympic Games flag bearers
By Dean Greenaway
When 50m Free Swimmer Elinah Phillip and 400m Hurdler Kyron McMaster walk into the Tokyo Olympic Games stadium as flag bearers on Friday, they will make history as the territory’s first Youth Olympic Games participants making it to the Olympic Games.
Seven years ago, McMaster participated in the 2014 Youth Olympic Games in Nanjing, China. Phillip was there to see her sister Amarah swim. She went on to compete in the Youth Olympic Games in Buenos Aires in 2018, after debuting in the 2016 Rio Olympic Games.
Now, both will simultaneously walk into the Tokyo Olympic Games Stadium on Friday Phillip as a 2-times Olympian at the tender age of 21 McMaster as an Olympic Games debutant.