The closing ceremony of the 2012 Reykjavik International Games will take place in Laugardalsholl Sports Hall tonight.

At 19:00 dinner will be served for those who have bought tickets from their event managers. At 20:00 the closing ceremony starts where everybody with the Games wristband can join. First the best athletes in each sport will get an award and then there will be a disco with the most popular Icelandic musician Páll Óskar Hjálmtýsson. The disco ends at 23:00.

We hope to see you all at the disco!

The 2012 Reykjavik International Games officially started last night with a fantastic opening ceremony where athletes from all sports took part. The opening ceremony ended with the singer Regina Osk singing the song of the Games.

Photos from the opening ceremony and Friday´s competitions are now available on our Facebook site. Click here to visit the site. More photos will be added over the weekend.

Click here to view the schedule of the Games. If you are not competing we recommend that you visit some of the competitions.

Tonight all participants and guests are invited to join the Pool party. The party takes place in Laugardalslaug from 19-22. Click here for further information.

Although the Reykjavik International Games 2012 has not officially started yet with an opening ceremony the Games have partly started. Last weekend the competition in Fencing was held in Laugardalur with participants from nine different nations. Many swimmers also took part in a training camp last weekend.

The next event of the Games is a conference about elite training that will take place on Thursday at Reykjavik University. Further information can be found here.

The Opening Ceremony of the Reykjavik International Games 2012 will take place in Laugardalshöll sports hall on Friday January 20th. Light dinner will be served at 19:00 and the ceremony itself will start about 30 minutes later.

Click on the photo to see updated schedule of the Reykjavik International Games 2012.

On Thursday coaches, participants, and other interested are invited to follow some exciting lectures on a conference about elite training. The conference is a part of RIG 2012 and will take place at Reykjavik University on Thursday January 19th.

The conference starts at 18:00 and ends at 21:00. Three very interesting international speakers will speak about elite training. All lectures will deliver their lectures in English language. The speakers are Agne Bergvall athletic head coach for pentathlon star Carolina Kluft, Didier Seyfried a former national coach in swimming and modern pentathlon with world class results and Hans Söndergaard an exercise physiologist that has done serveral studies on Kenyan elite runners since 1997.

The conference fee is 1.500 ISK and a light dinner to be served at 19:00 is included. Registration should be made through the e-mail This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it . The fee should be paid at the conference, credit cards are accepted. Last registration date is Tuesday January 17th.

Nánari upplýsingar á íslensku hér.