A Valvanera player drives the ball between several rivals. /
This weekend there will be very little school activity because it is a date destined to recover the postponed games and days
For several years now, the La Rioja Sports Games have had some dates on the calendar (in the months where the winter is harsher) so that the matches or even whole days –as has happened in some editions– that take place have been forced to be postponed due to weather conditions, have a free date to recover and catch up.
Until the General Directorate of Sports introduced these dates, those sports in which their competition is divided into two phases and the configuration of the second depends on the classification of the first, ran into the problem that if there were matches that were not they had played, it was not even possible to get around the second part of the tournaments.
Now, the problem has been solved because when the general calendar of the Sports Games is designed, three recovery days are established. In most cases it is not necessary to resort to them, and it simply means a weekend off for school athletes, but if you need them there you have them.
This year, the first of the recovery days was held on January 7 and 8. Most of the schoolchildren extended their sports holidays from Christmas, but there were those who found it necessary to resort to that date.
The third of the conferences will take place on April 1 and 2, also just before the Easter holidays.
And the second of those conferences takes place this weekend, which is why there is very little activity scheduled for this weekend.
Soccer includes in its indications some matches that had to be postponed for various reasons beforehand, likewise, practically the entire day of the La Rioja Baja group of prebenjamin futsal and some youth volleyball matches will be played, and a couple of commitments of the handball league.
Some days have also been scheduled in collective sports such as karate, which for this coming Saturday announces the dispute of its fourth day. The appointment is at the San Millán de Logroño Sports Center from 4:00 p.m., and lasts approximately 90 minutes.
Judo postpones his day
Judo had decided not to give its athletes rest due to the tightness of its calendar and to summon them to a new day this Saturday, however, finally the competition has been postponed because the date coincided with some national events in which they had to participate some of the schoolchildren who also take part in the Sports Games.
That is the same reason, also, so that judo has decided to modify the date of its next school days. The coincidence of the Sports Games with national competitions of different kinds and different categories and even the European Jiu Jitsu Championship have made the Riojan Federation have to rethink the second part of the school season.
The Pelota Federation also postpones the day
The Pelota Federation had marked this coming weekend as ‘school’ for competitive purposes, however, the matches that were to be played both in the Titín III fronton in Logroño and in the Varea fronton have been postponed and next Saturday the 11th , the school pelotaris will also rest, like almost all the others who do not have postponed games. The hand pairs tournament (the one that registers the largest participation of those organized within the Sports Games) is already in its thirteenth day and the final matches and their outcome are getting closer.
