We’ve got your sport covered

SPORT is No 1 in the Far North right now — which is a beautiful thing after COVID-19 put the brakes on almost all codes earlier this year.

With a reputation for natural beauty and an outdoors lifestyle, it’s little wonder the Far North loves its sport too. Victorians would have been tropical green with envy as they watched Melbourne play the Swans on Thursday in their clash at Cazalys.

Thousands of locals watched the game live, a rare treat for lovers of the national game in Cairns, and it will do enormous good for the growth of the sport despite ARL Commission chairman Peter V’landys’ rather condescending dismissal of the threat this week.

Targa is off and revving thanks to organisers’ enormous effort to keep the wheels turning on this important event in the face of the coronavirus.

The Targafest has been replaced with Targa-Cavalcade, a 27km drive through the suburbs on Saturday so that residents have the opportunity to see these fine machines without leaving their front yards.

Even the LNP has added sport to its election game plan, hitting the ball out of the park with a $2m pledge to start work on converting 54ha of land to fields for soccer, rugby league, rugby union, cricket and Australian rules football.

Excitingly for the Cairns Post and our subscribers, we will be livestreaming the Cairns Hockey grand finals on our website today and tomorrow. Seven huge deciders will be streamed, allowing those who can’t get to the games to see friends and family play, and giving them a chance to catch all the action.

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