Quila Raipur Games are a symbol of  rural and countryside people's strength, determination, sportsmanship, energy, force and power. About 70 per cent of population lives in villages. It becomes natural for this sturdy community to have its own rural games.

 It becomes vital to recall the history of sportsmanship. It was under Patshahi of  Guru Hargobind Singh that the supreme temporal authority of Sikhs, the Akal Takht Sahib established. And it was here for the first time, the Guru encouraged wrestling bouts. It was herald for the tremendous spread of all kind of sports. 

 Every winter the Grewal Sports Association Stadium, Quila Raipur hosts The Quila Raipur Rural Sports Festival, not only regular events like Bhagwant Gold Cup Hockey Tournament, air pistol shooting, cycling, track and field equestrian events including tent pegging and tug of war take place in this festival but also traditional rural sporting events as bullock cart races, camels race, dogs race, sack lifting and kabaddi also take place. This is not the end of the game, what is unusual about this rural Olympics is occurring of many unusual and special events in this sports gala. Carrying plough with cycle in teeth, balancing on two or more horses, motorcycle acrobatics, tractors crawling on human bodies, pulling heavy vehicles with hair. A group of Nihang Sikhs (veteran Warriors of Sikh armies) also enliven proceedings with its superb breath taking display of Traditional games and sports including trick, horse riding and gatka are some of the  stunts performed by people of all age groups and very well appreciated by spectators who tiredlessly watch the function till midnight. About 3,000 athletes competing in over 70 events are hosted in the rural sprawl of Quila Raipur and nearly tens of thousands of spectators from all over Punjab and even abroad arrive here to witness the events.
 But with the changing scenario, the entire character of the festival came to a transfiguration. The simple and small game festival with the help of multinationals and increase in funds have turned into a mega event. Punjab and Union government are also showing a great interest into the game. A new rural sports policy focussing on the upliftment of the rural sports is under the consideration of the government
 Far from the snow-covered.Alps of the winter Olympics in Italy, another sporting event has captured imaginations in rural India. Every year a new game is introduced in this festival. But the main attraction Bullock cart race is still appreciated  as it was in 1944 when introduced.
 The event which started in 1933 has the backbone of the Grewal Community of Sikhs who are descendants of the Chandel Rajputs of Bilaspur in Himachal Pradesh. Today, they have the privilege of being the most educated kinship group in the Jat community of Punjab's Sikhs.
 The organisers feel at ease as villagers help them from food, lodging to travelling. The villagers open their houses for participants and spectators. Even transportation of spectators is looked after-with jobs of tractors being brought by villagers for this purpose. Paramjit Singh, secretary Grewal Sports Association said, " The villagers don't even charge for the diesel required for the tractors and vehicles used for the event." The association has been letting the show go on despite the  state and central government reneging  from a promise to pool in Rs. 500,000 per year. The grant has not come for the last five years despite the fact that the event has been declared a national festival.
 Interestingly, last year, Discovery Channel covered the event and made a documentary on it.