The Independence Stadium will host the 2016 traditional May Day Sports, otherwise known as Workers’ Day, observed 1st May each year.
Organised by the Sports Ministry through the National Sports Council, and a National Organising Committee, this year’s May Day Mass Sports is set to return to the Independence Stadium after a long absence. The 22nd July Square in Banjul has been hosting the event for the past years.
Celebrated in the form of a sporting competition in The Gambia, the May Day Sports will feature sprint runs and fun events such as 100m, 3-legged race, team relays, tug of war, musical chairs, the greasy pole, potato race, sack race, pillow fight, race for cabinet ministers, permanent secretaries and managing directors.
Ebou Secka the Programme Manager at the National Sports Council told Observer Sports that this year’s Mass Sports shall be preceded by some sporting activities where institutions compete among themselves. “Now that the track is ready, we are going to have the May Day Sports at the Stadium. We have started our consultative meeting with institutions’ representatives and we are looking forward to another successful event,” he said.
Secka went on to announce that the registration fee is D20, 000 with a banquet dinner for ten people.
by Alieu Ceesay
