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Salmond backs Lanarkshire's Children's Games bid
Jul 3 2008 by Lesley Brown, Hamilton Advertiser
FIRST Minister Alex Salmond has signed up to support Lanarkshire in their bid to host the International Children’s Games in 2011.
If Lanarkshire secures the multi-million-pound bid, Scotland will have pulled off a unique sporting treble, with Glasgow hosting the Commonwealth Games in 2014 and the 2014 Ryder Cup taking place at Gleneagles.
Mr Salmond said: “Although the instigators of Scotland’s bid are North and South Lanarkshire councils, the bid carries the support and encouragement of the whole country.”
He added: “We are looking forward enormously, if successful in passing the criteria test, to starting a process of great sporting events in Scotland over the next few years and to the endorsement of Scotland as the host of the Children’s Games in 2011.”
The ICG committee meet on July 11 to discuss the bids. The winner will be announced at the 2008 Games in San Francisco.
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