Fourteen hundred children would be be raising the roof, if it had one, at the NSC this morning.
The opening ceremony for the seventh HSBC Manx Youth Games will be at 10am.
Manx sport performance director Chris Quine says the aim is to give youngsters a taste of what sport has to offer (audio file attached):
(Picture: The opening ceremony for a previous Manx Youth Games).
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