Cornwall Corporate Games 2008
Newquay to Host the first Cornwall Corporate Games
At the stunning Eden Project, before a high profile audience of Cornwall and UK sports, corporate and media leadership, the Official Launch of the 2008 Cornwall Corporate Games took place.
Originating in San Francisco in 1988, the Games is a much travelled event. Games have been held in such diverse places as Budapest and Bilbaro, Johannesburg and Geneva, Malaysia and Hawaii, Stuttgart and The Hague. Cornwall is expected to attract thousands of participants from every corner of Cornwall, making it the biggest ever multisport participation in Cornwall of any kind.
Dr Maureen Johnston, President and Founder of the Worldwide Corporate Games Community, which has more than 20 national and regional Corporate Games in progress globally, said at the launch this week,
“The Cornwall Corporate Games is the first of its kind in Cornwall and a very exciting time for us. It will bring together from every size and kind of organisation the everyday athletes who play sports for the fun, health and fitness it provides. All are there to represent their company, institution or workplace. They are not elite, but they play hard and enjoy the camaraderie and respect that real competition in sport and life can offer.
“Newquay is an ideal and beautiful site for the Games. It is at once a business and tourism town with a vibrant mix of the old and new, and a great business, lifestyle and sporting ambience set in spectacular ocean scenery of great beauty. It is perfect for the many visitors who will come from corporate sports region-wide and beyond.”
There are 13 sports on the programme which includes a Grand Parade of Athletes, an Opening Celebration, a Great Games Party and the Closing Awards Celebration.
Large teams from Cornwall, both multinational and national organisations, will challenge one another in sporting competition. However the Games is not just for the huge and mighty of Cornwall’s elite organisations. It has provision even for the tiniest business or group to participate and become a winner.
Games Director, Ben Sedgemore, said that the Games grasps the spirit of earlier times in sport when the key was playing for the very joy of it and winning was not everything, just an important part of the whole.
“It is rather like the original vision of Baron de Coubertin in a different age,” Sedgemore states, “the Games respects the participants as much as the winners and seeks to provide a memorable and worthwhile experience for all entrants regardless of age or ability.”
Vicki Gregory, Marketing & Communications Officer for the Cornwall Sports Partnership, the host organisation commented, “We are delighted that Newquay facilities will host this fantastic sporting event in September. We would like to see as many teams as possible enter and hopefully enjoy it so much that they take up sport and join a local club".
For more information about the Cornwall Corporate Games please contact Camilla Swain on 01733 380 888.
Camilla@corporate-games.com W: www.corporate-games.com