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We did good.
The above three words aptly sums up Thursday’s ‘celebratory wrap-up presentation’ of the 2022 Canada Summer Games hosted at Canada Games Park by the Niagara Host Society.
“We threw a helluva event and we did it in challenging circumstances, and we did it together,” said Doug Hamilton, the Niagara 2022 Canada Games board chair.
The aforementioned challenging circumstance was the COVID-19 pandemic that delayed the event by one year.
“We as a group, as a community, as Niagara came together to deliver and incredible Games despite that,” he said. “It was a Games that allowed all of us to come out of our homes and come back together and that was part of the cultural celebration. That was so important for all of us.”
At Thursday’s event, Hamilton was presented with an award from Kelly-Ann Paul, Canada Games Council’s president and CEO.
Canada Games Council members were quoted as calling the Games “special and tremendous” and using descriptions such as “nailed it and rocked it out the park’ but Paul, for obvious reasons, wouldn’t give in to Hamilton’s urgings to call the 2022 event the best ever.
Paul was effusive in her praise of the 2022 event.
“The Games were tremendous, phenomenal, a huge, huge success and we do get tongue-in-cheek with the best ever because all the Games are unique and bring amazing contributions to the country,” she said.
Paul underlined the importance of the 2022 Games.
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