The XXXIV edition Guadalentín Sports Games opened with the March Walking in Friday afternoon gathered 1,200 people, an absolute record in the history of this event, ready to offer a warm welcome to six weeks of the best sport.
The Games are already here, and hundreds of participants demonstrated the importance of this event is the clearest reflection of what it means to participate in the sporting life of Lorca.
Games also showed its most supportive through collaboration with the Diabetic Association of Lorca, ADILOR, the character who took the test media to publicize the great work being done by the City of the Sun and the importance of physical activity for people with diabetes.
At 1930 hours the Alameda of the Constitution began to receive the first participants, after registering and getting your shirt commemorating the Games participated in the warming of the hand of Rosana Bayonas fitness instructor became the best way to prepare the muscles before the start of the test.
Groups of friends, families, couples, children and adults, sports clubs and a whole long list of guests showed why the popular character of the Games and the importance of popular tests at the Games since added sports and coexistence .
Shortly after 20:30, the multicolored snake made up of over a thousand people began walking behind the music and the banner of the Games.
The Avenida Juan Carlos I was the first to be traveled, then participants crossed the New Bridge to climb Jimeno Bridge Street to Main Street.
Hence the Town Bridge, La Alberca, Log, Oval, Avenida de Portugal and Perez Casas, coming to San Jose.
From this neighborhood park the group moved to the Park of La Viña to return, by Granada Road, Santa Fe and Jerome Avenue to Alameda of the Constitution, after traveling 5'8 miles in an hour and a half .
Then we proceeded to the official opening of these Sports Games Guadalentín XXXIV.
The Mayor of Lorca, Francisco Jodar, took the microphone to "congratulate all the participants to demonstrate the importance of sport in the town of Lorca. Again we have demonstrated the vitality of our town and the benefits of physical activity. The City Sun is unique in the field of sports and therefore we will be Santiago City, ADILOR as President, to thank the Olympics for taking the March Walking your organization. The day ended with the traditional drawing of gifts for participants, both individuals and families: local produce, dinners, sporting goods, sports vouchers in municipal facilities, a ham and a bicycle.
The games have just begun, and the March Walking is just the start of six weeks of the best sport beginning with a successful turnout.
Starting with the next test popular Race to be held on Sunday starting at 10 am in the malls, and consists of various tests to all participants, regardless of age, can enjoy a morning sports also including a tour of 200 meters for the small babies from the year 2007.
Source: Juegos deportivos del Guadalentín