CBC Sports to provide live coverage of upcoming Canada Games
The subsequent wave of Canadian athletes can be displayed on CBC Sports activities.
The Canada Video games, that includes 5,000 of youth athletes competing inter-provincially in 18 completely different sports activities, happen in Niagara, Ont., between Aug. 6 and Aug. 21. Nunavut can be sending its largest workforce ever with 60 members.
Greater than 100 hours of free reside protection can be accessible throughout CBC Sports activities platforms, together with CBCSports.ca, CBC Gem, the free CBC Sports activities app, and Radio-Canada Sports activities.
“We’re excited to supply this chance to observe Canada’s largest multi-sport occasion in methods by no means seen earlier than,” stated Doug Hamilton, Board Chair of the Niagara 2022 Host Society. “With the expansive protection that we are going to provide, due to the help of Niagara School and CBC Sports activities, audiences will be capable to get pleasure from the entire 2022 Canada Video games’ greatest moments.”
The 2022 Canada Video games function the first-ever girls’s lacrosse competitors, the return of males’s lacrosse after 37 years and an inaugural rugby sevens event.
The twenty eighth version of the occasion can be simply the third to be held in Ontario. Earlier Canada Video games have featured the likes of future superstars Sidney Crosby, Hayley Wickenheiser and Andre De Grasse.
Moreover, greater than 90 per cent of sports activities can be accessible on a brand new streaming platform at niagara2022games.ca/watch.
The competitors was initially slated to happen over the identical dates in 2021, however was postponed resulting from COVID-19. In consequence, the Canada Winter Video games are just some months away, set to start in Prince Edward Island in February. The Video games are sometimes spaced out by two years.
