Calvin Yee has been appointed as Team Fiji’s Chef de Mission to the 2023 Commonwealth Youth Games (CYG) which will be held from August 4-11 in Trinidad and Tobago.
Yee is no stranger to Team Fiji having travelled as a general manager to the 2019 Pacific Games in Samoa.
He was also a team manager at the 2018 Olympic Youth Games in Buenos Aires, Argentina and the 2017 Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan.
Yee is also an accomplished athlete having represented Fiji in late 80s to early 90s in athletics.
He will lead a team of eight athletes participating in four sports of Athletics, Cycling, Triathlon and Swimming.
The team size may increase depending on an invitation by the CYG for the sport of Rugby Sevens.
Rugby Sevens is limited to six teams only of which World Rugby, in consultation with the Commonwealth Games Federation, is still reviewing submissions.
Team Fiji has attended six Commonwealth Youth Games since 2000 and has won nine medals.
Athletes that have attended the CYG include athletics Heleina Young, swimmer Taichi Vakasama and rugby athletes including Olympian Jiowana Sauto, France-based player Temo Mayanavanua and Super Rugby Pacific winger Timoci Tavatavanawai, who plays for Moana Pasifika.
The Commonwealth Youth Games held its first edition as the 2000 Millennium Commonwealth Youth Games in Edinburgh, Scotland.
It has since held a total of six editions and the next is to be hosted by Trinidad and Tobago in August.
In its strategic document, “Transformation 2022 Refresh”, the CGF recognises that “With two billion people in the Commonwealth and 65 per cent of these under the age of 30, we have to become relevant and accessible to younger people”.
The CYG is a multisport event that provides a platform for athletes aged 14 to 18 years to build friendship and understanding with peers from 71 countries and territories.
