Just as quickly as they began ten days prior, the 2019 Western Canada Summer Games ended yesterday.

Coming to fruition with closing ceremonies yesterday afternoon, athletes, their coaches, and their families will be leaving the city with an experience to remember for the rest of their lives.

Work now begins to return Swift Current to its normal state. Some reminders of the games have already been packed away, such as equipment at the Swift Current Comprehensive High School track.

Other remnants such as the athlete's village remain, but not for long.

At a press conference yesterday, co-chairs of Swift Current's host committee outlined that it will take some extra time to disassemble the establishment.

"We've promised the Chinook School Division," Mark Benesh, a co-chair of the Western Canada Summer Games, said, "that we'll be out of their buildings, they can come in by Tuesday [at] noon."

Other aspects of the games will remain in Swift Current permanently.

Legacy projects in the southwest such as the beach volleyball courts, and an updated mountain biking course will live on for years to come.

Initial concerns with an under-target volunteer count were squashed as more people gave up their time after the Games began.

Melissa Shaw, the other co-chair of the Games, said that the Games running smoothly was earned thanks to the southwest's investment of time.

"Without those 2,000 people, there is no way that we would be nearly as successful as we are."

Rain was one problem that the Games ran into, and resulted in some last-minute changes.

"Outside of the mountain bike course," Benesh said, "which I think was effected a little bit more than anything else, I believe that we were able to deliver exactly what we planned to do not matter around the weather."

Looking back on the Games, Shaw also said that she thought they were able to deliver on what they set out to host.

"Athletes were well fed, they were transported safely, they got to enjoy some fantastic cultural nights... The old adage 'it takes a village,' well this definitely took a village, and we are thankful for that."

Also taking part in the press conference was Darin Banadayga, the council chair of the Western Canada Summer Games. He said that Swift Current's size wasn't a detriment to the Games which have been hosted in cities like Kamloops and Saskatoon in the past.

"This is a great size community for western games, It's easy to get around the city.

I think when larger cities have it, [athleetes think] 'I'm going to have to be on a bus for at least half an hour, maybe 45 minutes, here it's like a five or ten minute bus ride and I can get from one venue to the athletes village' so I think Swift Current is in my opinion, an excellent size for this type of Games."

Exact numbers on attendance and other statistics on the games are not yet available, although ticket sales were high by all accounts.