Sports sign on for mystery tour

Wednesday 11th February 2009, 2:59PM GMT.

A 40-STRONG squad has signed up to represent Jersey at this year’s Jeux des Iles – but they still don’t know where they are going.

Team manager Hugh Raymond says he knows the games will be held on a Mediterranean island, but he doesn’t yet know which one.

Plans for the Jersey squad to travel to the Italian island of Elba unravelled in December after funding for a swimming pool on the island, which is off the coast of Tuscany, was withdrawn by Tuscan authorities.

It was believed that Sardinia would take over host duties, although they have now, too, declined.
Raymond said: ‘We know it will be in the Mediterranean, but we just don’t know where!’

• Picture: The Jersey team at last year’s Jeux des Iles in Guadeloupe

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