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This weekend the school competition resumes with the opening of the most decisive quarter of the season
The schoolchildren already ended their academic holidays last Monday and this coming Saturday they will resume the Sports Games competition after having returned to training in recent days, and in some cases, also during the first week of the new year 2023.
The second term of the sports course is the most decisive –and intense– of all because in the case of team sports it is time to change phase, and that means that the different clubs set their objectives for the rest of the season. For some it means being out of the fight for the main title (usually they are framed in Cup tournaments or other minor titles), while for the best it means overcoming a first sieve and keeping intact their aspirations to lift the champion trophy.
In individual sports, the development of the competition is different. In some cases, this second quarter will serve to clarify the rankings and advance in tournaments, such as badminton, or to improve marks, such as in swimming.
Other sports will conclude their campaign in the coming weeks. Cross-country is in this situation, and another group of disciplines will begin their school campaign now, such as gymnastics (although the Christmas promotion day already served as a prologue), chess, horse riding…
What is clear is that the second quarter is the most intense of all and the one that will present a sports card every weekend with the greatest number of disciplines. Those that are ending, those that are beginning and those that are continuing their development will come together over the next few months to offer all the diversity that Sports Games provide.
one stop only
In addition, in this second part of the sports course, schoolchildren are hardly going to have breaks. As the Sports Games calendar runs parallel to the academic one and this does not register interruptions in the next three months (until Easter), the only general parenthesis that the competition registers –although each specialty has its own calendar– is the end of week of March 11 and 12. That date is marked as recovery day by the General Directorate of Sports. In other words, if no day has to be suspended due to weather or other reasons, that weekend in March only those teams (or sports, if the decision corresponds to a Federation) that have postponed their appointments will have activity. The rest have three very, very intense months ahead of them that will end at the beginning of April when the academic holidays of Easter arrive and again, the schoolchildren also enjoy their sports break.
