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Olympic Day Run 2000 Throughout the World Olympic Day Run 2000 throughout the world Feature compiled by Sylvie Espagnac he International Year for a Culture of Peace provi- ALGERIA ded an opportunity for many National Olympic T Committees (NOCs) to adopt the theme of peace This year’s Olympic Day Run was held in Adrar, and the Olympic Truce for their traditional Olympic Day a town on the edge of the Algerian Sahara, Run. Since 1987, the annual Olympic Day Run has some 1,400 km from the capital, Algiers. It was enabled millions of men, women, children, elderly and brought forward to 4 April because of the disabled persons from all social, political and cultural oppressive heat experienced in this region from backgrounds to experience together the joys of physical May onwards. The day before the race, an opening ceremo- exertion. On Olympic Day, celebrated across the world ny was held, including a procession of the teams, martial art on 23 June (anniversary of the founding in 1894 of the demonstrations and folk dancing. Schoolchildren who had International Olympic Committee by Baron Pierre de won the NOC’s drawing competition on the theme “Sport, a Coubertin at the Sorbonne University in Paris, France), component of peace” were presented with their prizes. The the IOC President, Juan Antonio Samaranch, and the 8.1 km race attracted a field of 1,251 boys and girls, wat- United Nations Secretary General, Kofi Annan, sent a ched by a large crowd along the route. At the finishing line, in joint message to all the NOCs. As in previous years, the the town square, the winners and participants received first Olympic Day Run of the new millennium was held medals, prizes and certificates. alongside other sports competitions and demonstrations as well as cultural and artistic events. The Coca-Cola company has been supporting this commemoration of sport for all since 1989. SOUTH AFRICA The city of Durban hosted the Olympic Day 2000 celebrations. At 11 a.m. on 2 July, 3,700 people set off on a 5 km or 10 km run, officially started by the Governor (Premier) of KwaZulu Natal province, Lionel Mtshali. At the finish, in the ‘Blue Lagoon’ park, the first thousand runners each received a T-shirt. All participants were awarded an IOC cer- tificate. A raffle was also held, with the first prize a trip to the Sydney Games (including flight, accommodation and entran- ce tickets). During the day, runners and spectators were able to rub shoulders with members of the South African Olympic team, including Olympic champions Penny Heyns et Josiah Thugwane. GERMANY The 14th Olympic Day Run took place in Weiskir- chen/Saar on 17 June. Around 1,400 runners, including IOC Executive Board member Thomas Bach, Prince Henri of Luxembourg, IOC member, and Peter Müller, President of the Saarland region, entered the 5 and 10 km races. T-shirts and IOC certificates were distributed at the finish. Olympic Day drew to a close with an “Olympic Night”, attended by numerous stars from the worlds of sport, culture and politics. 32 Olympic Day Run throughout the world ANDORRA The streets of Andorra-la-Vella were bubbling with excitement on 2 July, when Olympic Day 2000 was celebrated. Many spectators came to support the 47 runners in their 7 km and 2 km (for children) races. Prizes were presented by the Secretary General of the Andorran Olympic Committee, Josep Maria Cosan Nadal, and the President of the Athletics Federation, Josep Sansa Font. Each participant received an IOC certificate and a commemorative T-shirt. ANGOLA Held from 16 to 23 June, Olympic Week began with the 16th African Child Day, a sporting and cultural celebration involving some 2,000 boys and 1,500 girls, attended by Angola’s First Lady, Ana Paula dos Santos. Eight hundred children took part in the race held on 23 June. In all, 5,133 boys and 3,000 girls participated in various sports activities during Olympic Week 2000: handball, beach football, table tennis, cycling, judo, swimming, indoor football, sack race, chess, gymnas- tics, athletics, basketball, volleyball, wrestling, tennis and aerobics. 33 Olympic Day Run throughout the world ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA SAUDI ARABIA At 7.30 a.m. on 2 July, more than 375 runners This year, 550 runners entered the 6th Olympic met to take part in the Olympic Day Run. They Day Run held in Ha’il at 4 p.m. on 10 August. included a remarkable number of mothers with As in previous years, Saudi runners were joined babies and young children, although there were by participants from Egypt, India, Pakistan and runners of all ages and backgrounds. Prizes Syria, watched by almost 10,000 spectators were awarded to the youngest, oldest and fastest partici- who lined the 2, 5 and 10 km routes. The event was widely pants as well as to the family with the most runners. reported in the press and on television. NETHERLANDS ANTILLES ARGENTINA For the first time ever, the Olympic Day Run was The traditional walk, held on 24 June under the held on four of the five islands of the Netherlands name “Sydney 2000”, attracted more than 3,500 Antilles on 25 June. The commissioners for enthusiastic participants, who covered a distance sport and culture of the islands of St Eustatius, of 7 km in central Buenos Aires in front of a crowd St Maarten, Bonaire and Curaçao started the races, in which of spectators. All runners were awarded an IOC around 1,200 boys and girls competed, split into two age certificate at the finishing line. groups. Other sports such as football, swimming, karate and volleyball were also organized at the national sports centre in Curaçao. Certificates, T-shirts and drinks were given to all participants. 34 ARMENIA The race was held on 23 June, beginning in the central square in Yerevan. After the joint IOC/United Nations message had been read out, an orchestra played the Armenian national anthem, 500 balloons representing the Olympic rings were released and 50 white doves symbolizing peace took flight. Then the European weightlifting champion Ashot Danielyan hoisted the Armenian and Olympic flags. A total of 1,760 people, including 425 women and many disabled per- sons, entered the race through the streets of the Armenian capital to the “Hrazdan” stadium. In the evening, in Azatoutian Square, as well as dancing and singing, badminton, table tennis and arm-wrestling competitions were held, together with demonstrations of Armenian “kokh” wrestling, acroba- AUSTRALIA tics, rhythmic and artistic gymnastics, body-building and taekwondo. Held in Burswood Park, Western Australia, on 9 July, just a few weeks before the Games of the XXVII Olympiad in Sydney, Olympic Day Run 2000 was hugely successful. Syd, Millie and Ollie, the Sydney mascots, and more than 50 Olympians were joined by nearly 2,200 runners over distances of 5 and 10 km. The 10 km race was won for the ninth time by mara- thon runner Ray Boyd. Sue Hobson’s victory in the women’s event was good preparation for the Olympic marathon. A few thousand kilometres away, in Adelaide, South Australia, around 280 people set off, either walking or running, on a 5 or 10 km course from the Santos stadium, the cradle of Ade- laide athletics. Souvenirs, IOC certificates and Coca-Cola T- shirts were awarded to each participant. The media covered the event both in Burswood Park and in Adelaide. ARUBA This year, “Olympic Dream 2000” Week was organized by a local radio station, “Magic FM”, with five Olympic sports on the agenda (athle- tics, basketball, swimming, table tennis and volleyball). The winner of the “best player” award accompanied the Aruban delegation to the Sydney Games as the NOC’s special guest. In the middle of the week, the Olympic Day Run was organized by the NOC, with 75 participants. The race was started by the Minister of Sport, Glenbert Croes, and all runners received an IOC certi- ficate and refreshments courtesy of Coca-Cola. Before the race began, the Olympic anthem, translated into the local language, Papiamento, was sung by the “Tutti Frutti” chil- dren’s choir. 35 AZERBAIJAN BAHRAIN On 24 June, 2,270 people gathered in Azadliq Placed under his patronage, the 13th Olympic Square in the capital, Baku, to take part in the Day Run was officially started by Sheik Isa bin 2, 4 and 10 km races. They were welcomed by Rashid Al-Khalifa, NOC President and Vice personalities including the Deputy Minister of President of the Higher Council for Youth and Youth and Sport, Asif Asgarov, the NOC Sport. Around 60 men and women ran the 5 km from the President, llham Aliyev, and the NOC vice-president, Chingiz Behair Area petrol station to the national stadium. Trophies Husseinzadeh. On the same day, 515 runners pounded the and medals were awarded to the winners of each category. streets of Azerbaijan’s second city, Ghanja. Widespread coverage was provided by the press and television. BANGLADESH The highly successful first Olympic Day Run of BAHAMAS the new millennium was held in six different cities on 23 June. In Dhaka, the capital, almost Two hundred men, women and children, aged 10,000 people met at 6 a.m. in the from 11 to 73, ran the five-mile course from Fort Bangabandhu national stadium before the 14 km race was Montagu in Nassau to Paradise Island. Athletes started by Finance Minister S A M S Kibria. In the cities of selected for Sydney enjoyed a special breakfast Chittagong, Khulna, Rajshahi, Sylhet and Barisal, around while NOC President Arlington Butler highlighted 5,600 men, women and children took part in the various the importance of peace.
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