The Gambia National Olympic Committee (GNOC) in collaboration with the Olympafrica Centre at Serekunda East, will join the Olympic Movement worldwide to commemorate the founding of the Modern Olympics on Saturday July 16, 2016.
The event, which will be held barely three weeks before the opening of the 2016 Summer Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, would get underway from 09.00am.
The Olympic Day commemoration has been a firm pillar for the celebration throughout the world and it is the biggest mass sports in the world organised to commemorate the founding of the Modern Olympic Movement (IOC) by Pierre de Coubertin.
It is a great opportunity for the people around the world to experience the Olympic values and live the Olympic experience outside Game times.
In The Gambia, the celebration, to be held at the OlympAfrica Centre at Serekunda East will feature a daylong sports activities such as 5km and 3km road race 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, Beatrice Allen will deliver the message from IOC president, Thomas Bach to the participants.
The commemoration is expected to be attended by GNOC 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.
Story Source: Namory Trawally, GNOC