Construction underway at Brookvale ski park for 2023 Winter Games
CBC
Preparations are underway at the Mark Arendz Provincial Ski Park in Brookvale, P.E.I., for the 2023 Canada Games on P.E.I.
Ski park staff say the countdown is on, with fewer than 500 days remaining to the big event.
"We're getting ready for the games and it does take quite a while to prepare trails and runs and snow-making ahead of the games in 2023," said Erin Curley, assistant superintendent of the park.
"We're just getting everything off the ground this year, to start getting everything ready for that winter."
About 900 athletes will compete at the Brookvale ski park during the games. The work now underway is the biggest renovation at the ski park in decades.
An addition is going on the ski lodge. One of the main downhill ski runs is being widened, with the addition of berms, banks and curves to accommodate border-cross events. They're also building a completely new hill at the far end of the site.
They've made the cross-country trails wider — so all cross-country events can be held there. Also, new target equipment from Finland was installed this week at the biathlon facility.
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