{"id":27752,"date":"2012-11-07T08:09:29","date_gmt":"2012-11-07T13:09:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=27752"},"modified":"2012-11-07T08:09:29","modified_gmt":"2012-11-07T13:09:29","slug":"btc-signs-olympic-endorsers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2012\/11\/btc-signs-olympic-endorsers","title":{"rendered":"BTC Signs Olympic Endorsers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2012\/11\/btc-signs-olympic-endorsers-27752.html\/olympics-2\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-27753\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-27753\" title=\"olympics\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/olympics.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/olympics.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/olympics-150x112.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a>The Bahamas Telecommunications Company (BTC) has signed six of the country&#8217;s current and future Olympians to endorsement deals.<\/p>\n<p>Michael Mathieu, Chris Brown, Demetrius Pinder, and Ramon Miller, the foursome that captured the 4x400m relay gold at London 2012, as well as freestyle swimmer Arianna Vanderpool-Wallace and 19-year-old sprinter Anthonique Strachan have all signed one-year agreements with BTC.<\/p>\n<p>The six agreements are worth US$180,000, US$35,000 for each member of the relay team, and US$20,000 each for Vanderpool-Wallace and Strachan.<\/p>\n<p>BTC has already spent some US$100,000 sponsoring the Bahamas Olympic team in the build-up to London 2012.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen the idea was first presented to our executive body, never once was there hesitation,&#8221; BTC chief executive Geoff Houston is quoted as saying in the Bahamas Weekly. &#8220;The simple truth is that sports development is a major pillar in our model of corporate social responsibility.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #888888;\">By James Emmett<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<em><span style=\"color: #888888;\">Sports Pro Media<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bahamas Telecommunications Company has signed six of the country&#8217;s current and future Olympians to endorsement deals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[36,413],"class_list":["post-27752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","tag-btc","tag-olympics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27752\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}