D’Amour Set to Compete Thursday at Archery Ranking Round in Paris

Nicholas D’Amour, 22, of St. Thomas, is the first Virgin Islands athlete to compete at the 2024 Olympic Games as the men’s archery individual ranking round gets underway Thursday in Paris.

The competition starts at 8:15 a.m. Atlantic time at the storied Esplanade des Invalides. D’Amour, who also competed in the 2020 Games in Tokyo and is currently ranked 11th in the world, qualified for his second Olympic berth at the Americas Continental Qualifiers in Medellin, Colombia, in April.

Also competing for the USVI are Eduardo Garcia in the marathon; Kruz Schembri in fencing; and Natalia Kuipers and Maximillian “Max” Wilson in swimming.

Kuipers and Schembri will be the flag-bearers for opening ceremony on Friday, which, in a break from tradition, will be held on the Seine River in the heart of the city, with boats for each delegation. The event will start at 2 p.m. Atlantic time.