Barely
three weeks before the opening of the 2016 Summer Olympic Games in Rio De
Janeiro, Brazil, The Gambia National Olympic Committee (GNOC) in collaboration
with Olympafrica Center at Serekunda East, will join the Olympic Movement
worldwide to commemorate the founding of the Modern Olympic on Saturday 16 July
2016 starting from 09.00am.
The
Olympic Day Commemoration has been a firm pillar for the celebration throughout
the world and it is the biggest mass sport in the world organised to
commemorate the founding of the Modern Olympic Movement (IOC) by Pierre De
Coubertin.
It
is a great opportunity for people around the world to experience the Olympic
values and live the Olympic experience outside Games times.
In
The Gambia, the celebration to be held at the OlympAfrica Center in Serekunda
East will be held in daylong sports activities such as 5km and 3km road races
for boys and girls respectively as well as volleyball and tug-of-war for Lower
and Upper Basic schools.
Gambia’s
International Olympic Committee (IOC) member and first vice president of GNOC,
Miss Beatrice Allen, will deliver the message from IOC president Thomas Bach to
the participants.
The
commemoration is expected to be attended by GNOC’s executive committee,
national sports associations affiliated to GNOC, parents, teachers and students
of all participating schools.
At
the end of the programme certificates will be presented to all participants.