Anchor AIMS Games is back after annual event cancelled last year
5 May, 2021 07:00 PM
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AIMS Games tournament director Vicki Semple. Photo / George Novak
September will bring thousands of young athletes from around the country to the Bay of Plenty, giving it a "much-needed boost" as the annual Anchor AIMS Games returns.
This time last year, the "heartbreaking" decision
was made to cancel the intermediate-aged sports tournament, held in Tauranga, due to Covid-19 and the need to make national safety a priority.
Registrations for 2021 were "looking really good", tournament director Vicki Semple said, and were on par with the 2019 games which hosted more than 11,000 athletes — 2.3 per cent more athletes than were in the Rio Olympic Games.