LWG update

The opening ceremony for the 2019 Labrador Winter Games kicked off this Sunday evening at the EJ Broomfield Arena.

We spoke with Paul Motty who is the Executive Director for LWG.

He says all 20 teams arrived in Happy Valley Goose Bay on Saturday and Sunday.

And competitions started yesterday morning, so today marks day 2 of the competitions.

Motty says yesterday the athletes competed in Volleyball, Target Shooting and Snow Shoeing.

He adds that during the Volley ball championships the gym was fully packed with audience watching and cheering their teams from 8:30 am yesterday morning, and volleyball finished at 7pm last evening.

Volleyball was the only sport that finished yesterday, and here are the results: First place team winning the gold medal was Makkovik, the Silver medal went to our home town Nain and the bronze went to the Hopedale team.

To find out more about what is happening at this year’s Labrador Winter Games for 2019, click here.