School Games 2012
The School Games began in 2007 in Glasgow and are open to all school athletes in England. Not all athletes will eventually participate in the Olympics, but with the School Games they get the chance to compete at the highest level. This year the School Games are held in the Olympic Park in London, and by being able to do so, the school athletes experience the ambiance of the “real thing” to the fullest. Some of the school athletes indeed eventually join the Olympics, for example golden medal winners at Beijing, Ellie Simmonds and Tom Davis. Experience victory and defeat is what the School Games are all about.
What a marvelous initiative. Giving young people the possibility to compete with others at their own sport level. Copy the Olympic Games to a level for the youth. Competition with yourself and others are good things, I think. Sports learn you to persevere, to accomplish things you didn’t imagine were possible. There are other ways than sports to learn this, I know, and I’m not a sportswoman myself, but I admire the perseverance and the strength these athletes have to endure all the physical input and the time involved, the chance they take of winning or losing over and over again; it’s all in the game. I believe it makes a person stronger.
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