World Masters Games Promoted to Olympians

(ATR) The next edition of the World Masters Games is coming up in April 2017, and organizers have promoted the event to athletes past and present at the Olympians Reunion Centre (ORC) in Rio.

The ‘World’s Largest Sporting Event’ attracts over 25,000 athletes from all over the world and will be hosted in 2017 in Auckland, New Zealand.

New Zealander Anthony Mosse, a dual Olympian in swimming from 1984 and 1988, is one of the ambassadors for the event and was at the ORC to spread the word about the Games.

"The World Masters Games gives athletes of all ages and abilities the chance to compete," Mosse said. "It promotes the ‘Sport for All’ value of the Olympic Charter."

Mosse will return to competitive swimming as an athlete himself at the Games, and was in Rio to encourage other Olympians to return to their sport, or even try a new one.

"The World Masters Games has a contagious sense of camaraderie," he said.

For many athletes the Games are a reunion, meeting up with friends and friendly rivals from all over the world.

Mosse is just one of a number of Olympian ambassadors associated with the 2017 Games including Jenny Holliday (Australia – softball), Hamish Carter (New Zealand – triathlon) and Lord Sebastian Coe (Great Britain – athletics) who is the International Goodwill Ambassador for the Games.

The Games will take place in Auckland from April 21-30, 2017 and Olympians have a special registration discount.

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Written by Alice Wheelerin Rio de Janeiro

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