THE Queen’s Commonwealth Games Baton Relay will showcase Carmarthenshire to 71 countries on May 27th.
Carmarthenshire’s sports and leisure teams are delighted and have been working with the QBR organisers to maximise this tremendous opportunity.
Council leader Cllr Kevin Madge said: “Our teams have worked had to impress and secure this wonderful opportunity to showcase our county to the world.”
The county has secured a prime relay display day after the May Bank Holiday guaranteed massive television coverage with the baton being trailed from Laugharne, to Carmarthen, then Ammanford and Llanelli before returning to Carmarthen.
TV companies are keen to link the Dylan Thomas DT100 anniversary celebrations with the QBR and are setting up their early morning command centre at the Dylan’s Boathouse for the day.
The county sports and leisure teams have been working on the relay for six months and impressed assessors with their plans for the three county towns and Laugharne.
The relay, which builds up to the July games to be held in Glasgow, is currently in Africa.
Baton bearers, to be revealed later in the year, will visit Dylan Thomas’s boathouse in Laugharne in the centenary year of the Swansea-born poet’s birth and go on to Carmarthen, Ammanford and Llanelli where a colourful multicultural festival is being arranged.
It’s journey, taking in 71 countries, is longer than that of the Olympic flame.
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