The Arborough Games were an Olympics-like competition held between young people representing the cities of Ann Arbor, Michigan and
Peterborough, Ontario
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in the 1980s and 1990s.
Creation
In 1983, Peterborough became Ann Arbor's third
sister city
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While there are early examples of inter ...
(after towns in
Germany
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, and Japan; Ann Arbor has since twinned with cities in
Nicaragua
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Cuba
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). The arrangement was inspired by Doug Walker, then head of the Ann Arbor Recreation Department, who suggested the cities set up a Junior Olympics-type exchange. The name "Arborough Games" was a