The Balfour Beatty London Youth Games is Europe’s largest youth sports festival, introduced in 1977 to celebrate the Queens Jubilee and has since grown to be the largest youth sports event in Europe! Over 45,000 competitors aged 7 to 17 from 33 London boroughs compete across a range of sports. Click here for the LYG website and here for some Twitter updates from 2015.
Read on find out how YOU get to be part of the fun!
Are you a Hillingdon Resident and/ or School Attendee?
If YES, then you could represent the Borough of Hillingdon at the London Youth Games in the cycling event. This will be held on 18th June at Lee Valley Velopark in Stratford and is open to boys and girls. There will be a mixed team for age group under 12 and a mixed team for ages 13-16 years. The following age categories are eligible:
- Youth AB (Male/ Female): Year 11 & U, Oldest DoB 01/01/00
- Youth CDE (Male/ Female): Year 7 & U, Oldest DoB 01/01/04
It will be a time trial event, with the older category also having a road race. If anyone is interested in representing Hillingdon please contact Mark Devlin via this email here or SMS to 07946 343 709. For more information about how to represent Hillingdon and if you are interested in other sports go here.
If NO, then you can still take part by contacting your local borough team manager – you can find out who this is on this page here.
Sound Interesting? Then Join the London Youth Games Cycling Trials…
British Cycling Central Region and the London Borough of Richmond are hosting cycling trials at Hillingdon Cycle Circuit on Sunday 24th April for the London Youth Games. These trials are open to riders from ALL London Boroughs. Sign on is open at 8.45 and the trials will run from 9.00am until 10.00am. You can just turn up on the day and set a time but you will need to contact your Borough Sports Department to register interest for your Borough team. More trials will be set up and circulated as venues become available and do note that some Boroughs will be running their own trials so ask your local Sports Department if you can’t make the 24th April!
For the trials you can bring your own bike or road bikes will be available for hire for £5. Helmets will also be available to loan. The trials are being run by Graham MacNamee (Mac) so if you have any queries then please contact him directly via this email here or by SMS on 07786 932887.
And finally… Of course, Slipstreamers is a Hillingdon based club and we would LOVE to see as many of you as possible representing Hillingdon in the games so do please contact Mark for more details. If any members outside Hillingdon are interested and not sure of who to contact, do come and talk to us and we’ll do our best to help you.