Local broadcasters will televise the Olympic Games in two stretches of three hours per day. The Telemiciro Channel 5 and Digital 15 telecast will be transmitted from 1pm to 4 pm, and again from 8pm to 11 pm. The focus will be on Dominican athletes, with particular attention given to 400-meter hurdler, Felix ?Super? Sanchez and his attempt to win a gold medal. The DR has not won a gold medal in Olympic Game history. While Sanchez was chosen to be the flag carrier, he declined, explaining that he preferred to remain in the US so as to arrive in Athens in the best of shape. In his stead, the captain of the Dominican volleyball team, Francia Jackson, will carry the flag in the opening ceremony on Friday 13 August. Note that local coverage of the events will not be live, because of the seven-hour time difference, with the exception of the opening and closing ceremonies and the day on which Felix Sanchez is to compete in the 400-meter hurdle (23 August and final on 26 August). Pan American Games gold-medal boxer Juan Jose Ubaldo and table-tennis gold medalist Juan Lin Ju are scheduled to for their first competitions on 14 August.
Engineer Frank Herasme announced that every afternoon at 3:45 pm a press conference will be held to report on the performance of Dominican team in Athens.