Olympic Flame
A generation of Suffolk Sporting talent inspired by Olympic flame
The Suffolk Youth Games completed its inspirational journey from the millennium to the Olympics yesterday and bowed out in a blaze of glory as the Olympic Torch visited the closing ceremony.
Around 800 young people representing Suffolk’s sporting future converged on Bury St Edmunds on Saturday 7th July for the thirteenth staging of the Redrow Homes Suffolk Youth Games. The event, organised by Suffolk Sport, the County Sports Partnership for Suffolk, in association with local authorities, sports clubs, schools and other sports partners across Suffolk is the largest multi sport event in the County. With the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games in London only a couple of weeks away, the Suffolk Youth Games offered the young people of Suffolk a small taste of what it is like to take part in a large-scale, multi-sport event.
The competition in all nine sports was hotly contested, with strong teams from Babergh, Waveney, St Edmundsbury and Mid Suffolk in particular ensuring it remained a closely fought title. St. Edmundsbury inspired the arrival of the Rwandan Olympic team came home as clear victors. The titanic contest for the podium places saw winners for the previous seven years Waveney take the runners up trophy by just one point from third placed Mid Suffolk. Babergh came in a creditable fourth place. The Fair Play trophy was awarded to Suffolk Coastal this year as all the teams exhibited excellent fair play throughout all the sports. This was certainly a fair reflection of the sporting spirit on display throughout the day.
The event, hosted by St.Edmundsbury BC and Abbeycroft Leisure Trust was attended by Councillor Tim Marks, Mayor of St.Edmundsbury and local MP David Ruffley. The six district teams and a team representing the community of Ipswich proudly marched around the track during the opening ceremony.
Rwanda will be making Bury St.Edmunds their home prior to the 2012 London Olympic &
The Suffolk Youth Games completed its inspirational journey from the millennium to the Olympics yesterday and bowed out in a blaze of glory as the Olympic Torch visited the closing ceremony.
Around 800 young people representing Suffolk’s sporting future converged on Bury St Edmunds on Saturday 7th July for the thirteenth staging of the Redrow Homes Suffolk Youth Games. The event, organised by Suffolk Sport, the County Sports Partnership for Suffolk, in association with local authorities, sports clubs, schools and other sports partners across Suffolk is the largest multi sport event in the County. With the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games in London only a couple of weeks away, the Suffolk Youth Games offered the young people of Suffolk a small taste of what it is like to take part in a large-scale, multi-sport event.
The competition in all nine sports was hotly contested, with strong teams from Babergh, Waveney, St Edmundsbury and Mid Suffolk in particular ensuring it remained a closely fought title. St. Edmundsbury inspired the arrival of the Rwandan Olympic team came home as clear victors. The titanic contest for the podium places saw winners for the previous seven years Waveney take the runners up trophy by just one point from third placed Mid Suffolk. Babergh came in a creditable fourth place. The Fair Play trophy was awarded to Suffolk Coastal this year as all the teams exhibited excellent fair play throughout all the sports. This was certainly a fair reflection of the sporting spirit on display throughout the day.
The event, hosted by St.Edmundsbury BC and Abbeycroft Leisure Trust was attended by Councillor Tim Marks, Mayor of St.Edmundsbury and local MP David Ruffley. The six district teams and a team representing the community of Ipswich proudly marched around the track during the opening ceremony.
Rwanda will be making Bury St.Edmunds their home prior to the 2012 London Olympic &