Kila Raipur set for 72nd Rural Olympics

Chandigarh, Jan 11 (UNI) The Grewal Sports Association has completed all arrangements for the successful conduct of the 72nd edition of the Kila Raipur Sports Games, popularly known as 'Rural Olympics'.

The Games will be held from February 1 to 4 at the Grewal Sports Stadium in Kila Raipur, near Ludhiana. On the same dates, the Bhagwant Memorial Gold Cup Hockey Tournament for seniors, juniors (men and women) would also be held at Kila Raipur.

Chief Organiser Sukhvir Singh Grewal said today that besides conducting numerous Olympic sports disciplines, the traditional rural unique feats by 'super human beings', like pulling of tractors with the teeth, balancing a plough with funnel between his jaws and scores of other astonishing and spell bounding displays and stuns would also be held.

The bullock cart races, considered to be the 'King of Shows' would be the main attraction at the games. The farmers nurse and nourish their bullocks round-the-year for the bullock cart race in the world famous Kila Raipur Games.

Dancing horse display, tent pegging and horse show, para gliding, dog races, loading and unloading tractor trolley, track and field events, cycle races, hockey, tug-of-war and the crowd-pulling game of kabaddi are the events which will enthrall the spectators who throng the Grewal Stadium in thousands, Mr Grewal added.

The organisers are offering cash prizes to the athletes who get first three positions. The winner will get Rs 5,000, runner-up Rs 3,000 and third position holder Rs 2,000.

Mr Grewal said that the events will end each day with cultural programmes by the noted artistes on each day. Folk dances -- gidha bhangra, Rajasthani and Haryanvi dances --- dhadi jatha and bhand marrasi and programmes by top folk singers of Punjab will make the evenings more thrilling and entertaining.

Free medical camps would also be organised during the Games. The Grewal Sports Association will provide free medicines to the needed persons.

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