2024 Special Olympics Canada Winter Games Week with Celebrity Snowshoe Relay Race

February 26, 2024

Calgarians Team Up to Kick Off 2024 Special Olympics Canada Winter Games Week with Celebrity Snowshoe Relay Race Presented by Black Diamond Group Calgary-based athletes, media, corporate leaders and Games officials compete head-to-head in traditional snowshoe competition

CALGARY—The longstanding tradition of staging a Celebrity Snowshoe Race presented by Black Diamond Group on the eve of the Opening Ceremony for the Special Olympics Canada Winter Games will continue in Calgary, February 26 at 2 p.m.

Co-Chairs for the Calgary Games, Cheryl Bernard and François Poirier, will be joined by sport personalities, media, and corporate leaders for the fun and entertaining 4x100-metre relay race across the snow-clad course at Maple Ridge Golf Course.

The event is the unofficial kick off to the 2024 Special Olympics Canada Winter Games Calgary, February 27 – March 2.

Who: Calgary Personalities and Corporate Leaders Special Olympics Canada Winter Games Calgary Athlete Ambassadors Presented by Pembina Games Organizing Committee/Officials

When: February 26, 2024 1 p.m. – Check-In 1:30 p.m. – Race Overview 2:00 p.m. – Snowshoe Relay Race Presented by Black Diamond Group

Where: Maple Ridge Golf Course 1240 Mapleglade Drive SE Calgary

For further information, please contact:
Chris Dornan
Special Olympics Canada Winter Games Calgary 2024
T: 403-620-8731

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The Bow and Elbow rivers meet is a place of confluence where the sharing of ideas and opportunities naturally come together. February 2024, Calgary will be gathering place for more than 1,200 Special Olympics athletes from across Canada in their pursuit of sport excellence and connection. Indigenous peoples have their own names for this area that have been in use long before Scottish settlers named this place Calgary. The Métis call the Calgary area Otos-kwunee [“oh-tus-skwahnee”]. In the Blackfoot language, they call this place, Moh-kins-tsis [“mohk-kin-stis”]. The Îethka Stoney Nakoda Nation refer to the Calgary area as Wîchîspa Oyade [“win chee spa oy ah day”] and the people of the Tsuut’ina [“sut sinah”] nation call this area Guts-ists-i [“Goot-sits-say”]. We would like to acknowledge that the Special Olympics Canada Winter Games Calgary 2024 will be located on the traditional territories of the people of the Treaty 7 region in Southern Alberta. This includes: the Siksika [“sit-sicka”], Piikani [“peegun-ee”], and Kainai [“gay-nah”] collectively known as the Blackfoot Confederacy; the Îethka [“yitch ka”] Nakoda Wîcastabi [“wee che stahbi”] First Nations, comprised of the Chiniki, Bearspaw, and Good Stoney Bands; and the Tsuut’ina [“sut sinah”] First Nation. The city of Calgary is also homeland to the historic Northwest Métis and to Métis Nation of Alberta, Region 3. We acknowledge all Indigenous urban Calgarians, First Nations, Inuit, and Métis, who have made Calgary their home. We work, play and reside on this sacred gathering place and the Games will provides us with an opportunity to engage in and demonstrate leadership on reconciliation.