We did well this year and I'm proud of all the team. We got a gold in the men's sporting shoot with Edward Roberts, Anthony White and Thomas Thomas; he also won bronze in the individual event.

Dominic Breen-Turner got silver in the laser standard class, and his brother Luke got bronze. The winner was a Finnish international who competes on the world circuit, but Dominic reckons they would have got him if they'd had one more round.

A brilliant surprise medal for us was Siwan Jones, who got a silver in the individual vault in the gymnastics. That was fantastic for the gym team.

Our athletics team got a lot of personal bests too, which was wonderful.

Our footballers didn't do badly; they beat Gibraltar, but lost against Guernsey. We played Rhodes in the game to decide who came fifth or sixth, but unfortunately it was a very dirty game. Two of our players got stretchered off; one had to have five stitches in his mouth after getting elbowed.

Bad or late tackles are part of the game, but spitting in our players' faces isn't, so we've made a complaint against the Rhodes team. That's an insult to our players.

So we've come back with a few injuries, but all in all everyone had a great time. The swimmer Claire Wilson carried the flag for us in the opening ceremony and Siwan Jones put Anglesey's water in the shared water fountain. It was a great ceremony; they had a musical comedian, which was different!

We're looking forward to the Isle of Wight in 2011 now. It'll be easier to get to; just some coaches and hopefully a free ferry ride across! We can take a bigger team next time.

Anglesey is one of the founder members of the Islands Games which were introduced in 1985. The first games were held on the Isle of Man, who are always celebrating something - 1985 was the year of sport, so they decided to invite European islands to compete in some sporting events.

Fifteen islands took part and as everyone thought it was a great idea, it continued.

It's now a worldwide event. The ones who come the furthest are the Falkland Islanders, but the ones who travel the longest are those from St Helena. It takes them about ten days, as they've got to first sail to Cape Town before flying to wherever the games are held.

We tried to bid to hold the games on Anglesey, but lost out to Åland, which is just off the Swedish coast, though it's part of Finland. We really need council support if we're going to bid for the games again in the future.

We only took a team of 75 this year as it's very expensive to reach Åland. You've got to fly to Sweden then take a boat over, and Scandinavia isn't cheap.

We took an athletics squad of ten, four archers and football, golf, gymnastics, swimming and sailing teams.

There are sporting coordinators for the different events who pick the teams. This year, we've had to put the athletes through drug awareness training as there was drug testing for the first time ever at the games.

It is quite difficult for us as we don't have all the facilities we should have on the island. The gymnasts have to lug their equipment out of storerooms each time they want to train. We'd love a purpose-built gym, like in Bangor.

We've also got to pick a football team out of the League of Wales players available because they'll be taking on teams like Bermuda, who field their Olympic team, or Minorca, who are in the third division of the Spanish league.

Some of Bermuda's basketball players play in the American college league, which is of a very high standard. We've got a great basketball coach in Tony Roberts though and some good up-and-coming players, which bodes well for the future. We don't have a team this year unfortunately because

The games are held every two years and we've been slowly improving. We began by winning a bronze, then a few silvers and recently we've always come home with a few gold medals.

I was a member of the football team in the first ever games and have taken part in most of them ever since, switching to basketball before becoming the team manager.

There's a fantastic atmosphere; it's like a mini Olympics. There are opening and closing ceremonies and, instead of a torch, we have the water ceremony.

Each island brings a sample of their water to mix into a well and they create a fountain over it. They really are a great thing to be part of. Dave Thomas

Meet some of the Anglesey team members training for Finland.