Description

To a boy participating in the
relatively unstructured sports that were
played on Prince Edward Island during
the summer of 1896, the revival of the
Olympic Games in Athens, Greece
during that summer was likely of little
interest. For Bill Halpenny
(pronounced "Hay-penny"), age 14,
that summer was probably a series of
long days filled with the enjoyment of
playing rugby, some track and field
activity, perhaps baseball, and more
likely than not, fishing and cycling.
But within eight years he would be the
first Islander to participate in the
Olympic Games, and in 1912 he became
the only Islander to date who has been
there twice.