Gold Coast and Tweed over-50s athletes prove age no barrier in GemLife Games

Join us at GemLife Palmwoods on the Sunshine Coast on Sept. 5 & 6, celebrating the spirit of active living for athletes aged 50 and over!

Kang Lee for GemLife Gold Coast and Julie and Bruce Berry for GemLife Tweed Waters

More than 500 athletes, volunteers and spectators in their 50s to 80s — including a team of 11 from the Gold Coast and Tweed — will line up to prove age is no barrier to competing on the sporting field at the GemLife Games on the Sunshine Coast on September 5 and 6.

Competitor numbers have almost doubled for the game’s second year, with participants from…