REGINA - It will be all hands on deck today at the Saskatchewan Winter Games, as February 22 marks “Turn Around Day” -- the logistical feat that will see hundreds of participants depart for home and hundreds more descend on Regina to take part in the second half of the Games.
The Athletes’ Village dormitory, hosted at the University of Regina’s Wakpā Tower, will be turned over with the help of many dozens of volunteers for the next wave of athletes to claim as their home until Saturday’s Closing Ceremony. Eight buses will begin arriving from their home districts in 45-minute intervals beginning at 11:00 A.M., while eight will depart beginning at 4:00 P.M.
Despite freezing temperatures that caused a cancellation of the day’s Biathlon events at Qu’Appelle Valley Nordic Centre in Lumsden, the action throughout the rest of the 2023 Saskatchewan Winter Games in Regina continued to heat up on Tuesday.
Medals were awarded in Artistic Swimming, Badminton, Bowling - Special Olympics, Curling, Table Tennis, Speed Skating, Weightlifting, and Alpine Skiing. Olympian Kenzie Priddell attended the Artistic Swimming events at the Lawson Aquatic Centre and presented the day’s awards.
The camaraderie and fun inherent to a multi-sport games was on full display at each event, and Saskatchewan’s top young athletes also came to impress across the board, with numerous provincial weight-class records falling during the day’s Weightlifting competition.
Coming up today, February 22:
- Ski Cross events will take place on Wednesday morning at Mission Ridge Winter Park. An entirely new ski and snowboard cross run was constructed at the park through the Saskatchewan Games Legacy Grant, a matching grant distributed across sport organizations in each Saskatchewan Games host community in order to foster sport development and leave behind lasting legacies.
