Press Release
On 9 December 2025, Her Excellency Yan Jiarong, Chinese Ambassador to The Bahamas, met with Ms. Pauline Davis OBE, double Olympic gold medalist, and Honorary Lifetime Member of the World Athletics Council. Ambassador Yan congratulated Ms. Davis on the publication of the Chinese edition of her autobiography Running Sideways, commending her contributions to youth and sports development in The Bahamas and the Caribbean. She noted that sports help strengthen friendship among peoples and promote mutual learning between civilizations, and that China is willing to deepen sports exchanges with The Bahamas and enhance people-to-people bonds between the two countries.
Ms. Davis responded warmly and positively to Ambassador Yan’s remarks. Ms. Davis is the first Bahamian to win an Olympic gold medal and the first female sprint Olympic gold medalist from the Caribbean region. She has represented The Bahamas in sprint events at five Olympic Games, winning two gold medals and one silver. Running Sideways tells the story of how Ms. Davis overcame challenges, including economic inequality and racial discrimination, to become an Olympic champion. The book is the inaugural work of Chinese-language “Caribbean Translation Series,” a project sponsored by the Caribbean Studies Center at Hangzhou Normal University of China.
