Legacy programs helped train several of the athletes who competed for Canada in the Olympics and who will be competing in the Paralympics
The 30th anniversary celebration of the 1994 Commonwealth Games drew a direct line over three decades to the recently completed 2024 Paris Olympics and next week’s start of the 2024 Paris Paralympics.
“We punched well above our weight to stage the 1994 Games and now the legacy and the spirit from those Games carries on,” said PISE CEO Robert Bettauer, at a ceremony held Thursday at PISE to commemorate the 30th anniversary. “We were able to fund 3,500 hours of training in Victoria for 160 athletes in the last year in rowing, rugby, swimming, diving, triathlon, cycling, track, boxing and skateboarding,” said 94 Forward president John MacMillan.
“It was worth it because it changed my community for the better,” added Coell, who spoke at the anniversary event Thursday.
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