České Budějovice, 20 January 2025 - The third edition of the V4 Winter Games Emil Open, a sports competition for disabled youth, will host over 200 participants from Central and South-Eastern Europe. From 22 to 26 January 2025, athletes will compete in six sports - downhill and cross-country skiing, snowboarding, snowshoeing, para-hockey and figure skating. The last-mentioned discipline is a novelty of the current edition. The Games, which aim to support children and young people with disabilities, will be held in two venues, in České Budějovice and Lipno nad Vltavou.
I am very pleased that our group ENERGIE AG BOHEMIA is at the origin of the idea the idea of organizing the Winter Games for disabled youth from the very beginning. One of our corporate messages is "To help and educate", and these Games live up to it. In addition, if the event is held in a region where we are actively we operate in, involvement and support is also natural for us. I wish everyone participants the right winter weather, joy and satisfaction with their performances.
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Today we asked the President of the Emil Open about the upcoming 3rd edition of the V4 Winter Games for disabled youth.
Together with Arnošt Petráček, she accepted the role of ambassador for the 2nd year of the disabled youth winter games V4 Winter Games Emil Open, which will take place at the turn of January and February in southern Bohemia.
I will give everything to Paris this year, but I will definitely not miss the disabled youth winter games in my beloved Lipno.
We organize winter and summer games for young athletes with all kinds of disabilities between the ages of 10 and 26. The Emil Open concept is based on this. At the Winter Games, for example, Centrum Kaňka from Tábor met the junior team of the Slovak Paralympic Committee. Some of them participated in their very first competitions in Lipno.
Para alpine skiing, cross-country skiing, snowboarding and snowshoeing - these are the sports in which young disabled athletes from the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia will compete for the first time this year. The event, called the V4 Winter Games Emil Open, is organised for young people from the Visegrad countries by Emil's Sports, z. s. The aim is to connect children and young people with all types of disabilities, to encourage them to lead an active life and a love of sport.
ENERGIE AG BOHEMIA has confirmed the general partnership of the V4 Winter Games for disabled children Emil Open. The games will be organized in the South Bohemia region by the Emilova sportovní, z.s. In České Budějovice, the extension of support for the Games was also discussed today.