Countdown On To Canada Winter Games
Tuesday, October 1, 2013 @ 3:45 AM
It dosen’t sound like it is a long way off, but the time is racing ahead to when Prince George will host the Canada Winter Games Feb 13th to March 1st 2015.
It is still hard for many to get their mind around the Games and believe me it will be a time when Prince George will hit the national stage, with live national TV, coverage in all areas of sport with 2350 young Canadians descending on Prince George for the event.
Think about it, 2350 athletes, 950 coaches, team managers and officials, 13 teams from ten provinces and three territories all crammed into 14 days of official competition.
If you want to know just how big these games are and how important they are to a city, stop Stu Ballantyne, the CEO for the 2015 games in Prince George and ask him , he after all took part in team swimming in the 1977 event for the province.
In conjunction with the passing of the 500 day mark, 250 News launches the countdown clock to the days, hours and minutes that are winding away leading up to what will be an opportunity to put Prince George on center stage.
We hope that you will count along with us .
I’m Meisner and that’s one man’s opinion.
Comments
Ask us about the impact of the Canada Winter Games in PG a year later.
Have any of the cities which have held Canada Winter Games changed in the years following them?
They come, some people into athletics and especially having children and youths living with them still who are athletic may get excited about them, then they fold their tents to go somewhere else in 4 years, and it continues.
It is an event, nothing more, nothing less.
Sorry, I’m not excited. Not all people are. And there is nothing wrong with people having different reactions to such events.
Warm and fuzzy feelings aside, the biggest impact of these kinds of events are improvements to infrastructure (Kin I being a good example).
Like gus says, I suspect that after the Canada games have come and gone, it will be back to business as usual.
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