 Gentlemen, I now declare Kamloops 2013 BC Seniors Games open. We're here in the beautiful community of Kamloops to open the 2013 Kamloops BC Seniors Games. This is really an opportunity for athletes from across British Columbia to come and compete in various athletics as well as there's a really strong cultural component. Well a lot of the older ones of course have been coming to the Games for a long time so they've made friends all over BC and they just love to come back and reunite if they're lucky enough to qualify in lots of cases and reunite with their friends and have competitive competition against them and see who wins again. Just being one of my friends, it's fun to win a medal too but not everybody can win a medal. It's just a main thing, keep me healthy. Always being active in life and you have to retire from a physical job so we have to do something. Well you meet people that you see every year for all these years and of course some of them die often and then you find a few more and we have the bus that brings us down and that's good fun too and it's just great fun. What it brings to the athletes again, a good sense of total well-being. It's a passion for life, it's a passion for living and clearly these athletes, these participants just embody that whole aspect.