BBC Local Live: Channel Islands on Sunday 25 June 2017

Summary

First day of competition in Gotland 2017 Island Games
Clean sweep for Jersey in the triathlon
Guernsey shooters start with a gold
Sark shooters take a bronze
Medieval-themed opening ceremony kicked off the biennial event
Times are all in BST - Gotland is one hour ahead of BST
Updates on Sunday 25 June 2017

Live Reporting

BRONZE: First medal for Sarkpublished at 15:24 British Summer Time 25 June 2017
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Hitra prove too strong for Jersey volleyballerspublished at 15:11 British Summer Time 25 June 2017
Jersey's women's volleyballers went down 25-3 25-10 25-14 to Hitra in their first group match.
Jersey beat Isle of Man in Table Tennispublished at 15:09 British Summer Time 25 June 2017
Jersey took the honours 6-1 in their team match against the Isle of Wight earlier.
It means after two games they are first equal in the group table with Greenland with Guernsey in third on points difference.
Guernsey are currently playing the Cayman Islands, while Jersey are taking on Greenland.
The two Channel Island sides will face off on Monday at 08:00.
Tennis quarter final line-uppublished at 15:01 British Summer Time 25 June 2017
After both Guernsey and Jersey were given byes in the round of 16 they go straight into the quarter finals of the team event.
After matches this morning Guernsey are playing Saaremaa and Jersey are up against Menorca for places in the semi-finals.
Jersey's Halksworth relieved to win goldpublished at 14:55 British Summer Time 25 June 2017
Jersey triathlon star Dan Halksworth described his "massive relief" at winning gold in the men's race at the start of the 2017 Island Games in Gotland.
He said the Jersey team pushed back hard at calls to reduce the length of the swim due to high tides as that is their strongest discipline as a team.
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We were pushy with it as we are strong swimmers so we wanted to make sure the swim was pretty long.
Dan Halksworth, Jersey Triathlon
Halsworth says he sacrificed time in the transition as he wanted to keep his bike in the right position for a cycling race tomorrow.
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I didn't want to change my bike position as I'm doing a race tomorrow. I thought I'd sacrifice time in the transition but I still did well on my bike, so happy days.
Dan Halksworth, Jersey Triathlon
Gotland: The Viking islandpublished at 14:49 British Summer Time 25 June 2017
Gotland has a very long history, particularly when it comes to trade and commerce. It is a major trading port in the Baltic sea and was an important meeting place during the Viking era.
Visby, the largest settlement in Gotland is a registered Unesco World Heritage Site. The 13th Century town wall surrounding the city centre extends 3.5km (2.2 miles) and has more than 50 towers.
Image source, C. Havrell Uddgren/ Island Games
Gotland's history goes back further than that. Human remains found on the island date back to middle Neolithic seal hunters. The Ajvide Settlement shows the island has been occupied since prehistory.
It is also home to some of the largest hoards of silver treasure ever discovered. This includes the Spillings hoard featuring about 14,000 coins, mostly from Islamic countries, captured by Viking raiders.
Jersey women lost after 'errors and missed chances'published at 14:36 British Summer Time 25 June 2017
Jersey women's football head coach, Daniel Seviour says the team "deserved to win" the match they lost 3-2 to the Isle of Wight.
He said it was disappointing but praised the team for doing everything right on the pitch, he said it was just a case of things not going their way.
Seviour says the team will be the same for the next game against Gibraltar.
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We just need to say 'do what we did there today'. The chances that were there on another day could have been six or seven for us at the back of the net.
Daniel Seviour, Jersey women's coach
Seviour praised the Isle of Wight team who he said pushed hard and were physical but said it just didn't go Jersey's way.
Jersey player/coach Jodie Botterill says they could have won it and for the next game they will just try to make sure the ball hits the back of the net.
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We need to go over the game, decide what didn't work, what did work. We've got a couple of training sessions to work on and hopefully we will make it right for the next game.
Jodie Botterill, Jersey player
Sark shooters currently lie in secondpublished at 14:14 British Summer Time 25 June 2017
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Another individual triathlon gold for Jerseypublished at 14:13 British Summer Time 25 June 2017
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Dan Halksworth successfully retained the title he took in Jersey two years ago.
BRONZE: Jersey pair take free pistol bronzepublished at 14:08 British Summer Time 25 June 2017
Greg Guida and Michael Quenault have taken bronze by a point in the ISSF 50m Free Pistol Men's team event.
Image source, Getty Images/Gotland 2017
Defending champions lose first group gamepublished at 14:00 British Summer Time 25 June 2017
Naomi Dunning
BBC Radio Jersey, Reporter
Jersey's women footballers have lost their first match of the 2017 Island Games 3-2 to the Isle of Wight.
They now have to beat Gibraltar on Wednesday to stand a chance of progressing.
Mixed fortunes in the Beach Volleyballpublished at 13:52 British Summer Time 25 June 2017
At the Visborg beach arena Jersey's Bero Bobus and Ruben Vieira beat Christopher Hooper and Daniel Smith from the Isle of Man 21-8 21-8 in their first group match.
Meanwhile in Group B Paul Gartshore and Andre Fortunato Da Silva lost 21-5 21-10 to the host island pairing of Hannes Brinkborg and Viktor Josson.
Jersey struggling to break through IoW defencepublished at 13:40 British Summer Time 25 June 2017
Naomi Dunning
BBC Radio Jersey, Reporter
Jersey's women footballers are coming under pressure in their opening match of the Island Games.
The Isle of Wight are constantly defending as Jersey work hard to try to close the 3-2 deficit.
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Player/coach Jodie Botterill taking a corner
How have the Channel Islands done at previous games?published at 13:36 British Summer Time 25 June 2017
The Channel Islands have been a big part of the Island Games since they started in the Isle of Man in 1985.
Jersey and Guernsey have competed since the games started, with Alderney and Sark a regular fixture at many games.
Guernsey hosted the second games in 1987 and hosted again in 2003. Jersey hosted in 1997 and again in 2015. The next games to be hosted in the Channel Islands will be Guernsey 2021 - the 19th games.
Jersey, the Isle of Man and Guernsey are the three most successful islands in the history of the games when it comes to total number of gold medals.
Gorrod wins first Jersey gold of Gotland 2017published at 13:17 British Summer Time 25 June 2017
Tim Pryor
BBC Sport
Jersey's Jo Gorrod got the island's first gold medal of the 2017 Island Games in Gotland.
She won the triathlon on the streets of Visby, with Jersey team mate Mel Messervy in third.
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There were big waves, you were catching a few and it was tough. It felt great going out on the bike, you had the wind behind you but you had to tackle it on the way back.
Jo Gorrod, Jersey Triathlon
Megan Wood brings Jersey back into the gamepublished at 13:14 British Summer Time 25 June 2017
Naomi Dunning
BBC Radio Jersey, Reporter
Substitute Megan Wood just scored for Jersey making it 3-2 to the Isle of Wight.
Jersey women now 3-1 downpublished at 13:12 British Summer Time 25 June 2017
Naomi Dunning
BBC Radio Jersey, Reporter
Another goal from the Isle of Wight as they take on defending champions Jersey in the women's football.
The rain has started coming down in Fardhem.
The goal came in the 52nd minute.
Gorrod faced 'horrendous waves' in triathlon gold winpublished at 13:02 British Summer Time 25 June 2017
Tim Pryor
BBC Sport
Jersey's gold winning triathlete, Jo Gorrod says she is really happy to have won the first race gold of the 2017 Island Games.
She said the swim was "horrendous, it was short but felt just as hard as a 1,500 metre swim" which she put down to the high waves.
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Really really happy, it's great to come out and be the first race of the games and start it with a gold medal for Jersey, you can't get better than that.
Jo Gorrod, Jersey triathlon
Defending champions behind at half timepublished at 12:59 British Summer Time 25 June 2017
Jersey women's footballers are trailing 2-1 to the Isle of Wight halfway through their opening game of Gotland 2017.
Alderney lose to Alandpublished at 12:46 British Summer Time 25 June 2017
More bad news for Alderney from the Table Tennis with the team only taking a single set in their 7-0 loss to Aland.
It follows an earlier loss to the Faroe Islands. Up next are hosts Gotland.