Over 1,000 children encouraged to embrace sport

Monday, May 11th, 2015 12:00am

More than 1,000 children will be encouraged to embrace the health and social benefits of sport this week.

The 14th Manx Youth Games are taking place on Saturday, and will see the children aged between four and 14 take part in 12 sports.

Senior sport development officer Gianni Epifani told us what he hopes the event will achieve:

The Island's Strategy for Sport wants to increase levels of physical activity among the young - Gianni says that only brings benefits:

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