‘It’s hard to believe it’s here’: Team Sask. Biathlete heading to Canada Winter Games in PEI
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A group of biathletes from Saskatchewan is getting set for their first Canada Winter Games.
A group of biathletes from Saskatchewan is getting set for their first Canada Winter Games.
Saskatchewan’s contingent of over 200 athletes, competing in 20 different sports, is heading to Prince Edward Island this week with games set to begin Saturday.
Dawson Schigol is part of the team Saskatchewan’s biathlon contingent.
“My mom got me into cross country skiing, then we were watching the Olympics one day, she said you should try biathlon,” Schigol told CTV News.
From those beginnings as a young boy, he now joins a team of eight elite athletes who are part of the team heading to the Canada Winter Games.
Schigol along with Rhiann Arnold and Drayton Lonsberry are 17-years-old and from Saskatoon.
It’s their first time representing their province at the games. Schigol has eyed the competition up for a long time.
