Ninth edition of Games will ‘go down in history’

THE ninth Specsavers Youth Games are going full speed ahead in May with a bigger selection of sports than ever before.

Published Jan 20, 2021

Last updated Jan 20, 2021

Specsavers Youth Games children past and present were at yesterday's launch of the 2021 summer event. Pictured are La Mare de Carteret Primary pupils keen to take part and two, now at the High School, who took part two years ago and shared their experiences with the younger children. Pictured alongside them were Dame Mary Perkins from Specsavers as well as Jenny Murphy and Steph Batiste from the Guernsey Sports Commission. (Picture by Sports Commission, 29128376)

Newcomers lacrosse and climbing feature alongside 18 other activities at the Guernsey Sports Commission’s biennial spectacle, which has shrugged off various Covid-related obstacles.

Organisers are encouraging Year 5 and 6 students to adopt a new sport and train up ahead of representing their ‘district’ on the Saturday 22 May Games day.

Given Guernsey’s special position amid the global sporting disruption, Specsavers co-founder Dame Mary Perkins feels this event will ‘go down in history’.

The commission have everything in place, despite losing Sir John Loveridge Hall to the new vaccination centre.

‘We had booked everything in and we were just about to go to print, and we had to reallocate everything,’ Games co-ordinator Jenny Murphy said. ‘We are so pleased we can carry on and still hold it.’