The Malta edition of the Olympic Day Run takes place next Sunday starting in Bugibba from McDonald’s Restaurant located on Islet Promenade. Participation is free of charge.
Applications will be readily available at any McDonald’s restaurants and through the offices of the MOC (and the MOC’s website www.nocmalta. org).
Registration is also accepted on the day of the run at 7.30am. Three running distances will be held – the 2.5K, the 5K and the 10K. Participants can even cycle the 10K should they wish.
For more information about the Olympic Day Run interested persons may contact the Maltese Olympic Committee on tel. 2133-2801 or by email [email protected]. Persons interested in joining the cyclists can contact the Malta Cycling Federation on 7947-1935 or by email [email protected].
People across the world believe in the Olympic values of excellence, friendship and respect and strongly associate them with the Olympic Movement and Olympic Games. The Fundamental Olympic Principles may be considered the Olympic Movement’s “code of best practice”, which ensures the values are represented in the Movement’s actions.
Olympic values
EXCELLENCE: It stands for giving one’s best, on the field of play or in the professional arena. It is not only about winning, but also about participating, making progress against personal goals, striving to be and to do our best in our daily lives and benefiting from the healthy combination of a strong body, mind and will.
FRIENDSHIP: It encourages us to consider sport as a tool for mutual understanding among individuals and people from all over the world. The Olympic Games inspire humanity to overcome political, economic, gender, racial or religious differences and forge friendships in spite of those differences.
RESPECT: This value incorporates respect for oneself, one’s body, for others, for the rules and regulations, for sport and the environment. Related to sport, respect stands for fair play and for the fight against doping and any other unethical behaviour.
Fundamental Olympic
principles
NON-DISCRIMINATION: The Olympic Movement strives to ensure that sport is practiced without any form of discrimination whatsoever.
SUSTAINABILITY: The Olympic Movement organises and delivers programmes in a way that promotes sustainable economic, social and environmental development.
HUMANISM: The Olympic Movement’s activities place human beings at the centre of its attention, ensuring that the practice of sport remains a human right.
UNIVERSALITY: Sport belongs to everyone. In all its decisions and actions, the Olympic Movement takes into account the universal impact sport can have on individuals and society.
SOLIDARITY: The Olympic Movement is committed to developing programmes that, together, create a meaningful and comprehensive social response to issues within its sphere of influence.
ALLIANCE BETWEEN SPORT, EDUCATION AND CULTURE: The Olympic Movement is committed to promoting the spirit of Olympism, which emerges at the convergence of sport, culture and education.
The Olympic charter
Olympism is a philosophy of life, exalting and combining in a balanced whole the qualities of body, will and mind. Blending sport with culture and education, Olympism seeks to create a way of life based on the joy of effort, the educational value of good example and respect for universal fundamental ethical principles.
The goal of Olympism is to place sport at the service of the harmonious development of man, with a view to promoting a peaceful society concerned with the preservation of human dignity.
The practice of sport is a human right. Every individual must have the possibility of practicing sport, without discrimination of any kind and in the Olympic spirit, which requires mutual understanding with a spirit of friendship, solidarity and fair play. The organisation, administration and management of sport must be controlled by independent sports organisations.
Did you know?
2007: 8847 participants from Thailand, 3,000 from Laos and 5,000 from Vietnam celebrated the Olympic Day Run together along the Maekong riverside.
2007: A quiz on Olympic Values was launched at CRTV radio during the Olympic Week promoted by the NOC of Cameroon.
2007: The US Senate and US House of Representatives passed Resolutions 185 and 395 respectively, to recognise 23 June as the founding of the Modern Olympic Movement.
The Resolutions acknowledge the contributions of the worldwide Olympic Movement and specifically, the support that the United States Olympic Committee provides to the athletes and sports programmes throughout the United States.
2007: Awareness on HIV/AIDS prevention was at the centre of the Olympic Day in Papua New Guinea. The event gathered more than 40,000 participants, including 10 per cent of the capital’s population, Port Moresby.
2007: 3,500 Olympic and Paralympic athletes, together with participants of all ages, run together in a race along 9km of Montevideo’s sea promenade.
2007: Football, netball, drumming sessions, dance, poetry, music shows and Olympic exhibitions were programmed in many cities during the celebration of the Olympic Day Run in Zimbabwe.
2007: The Sports Federation and Olympic Committee of Hong Kong, China opened the Olympic Day Run to corporate participants to build up team spirit at local companies.
2007: The Qatar Olympic Committee invested 6 months into the preparations of its Olympic Day Run.
2007: In Fiji, the NOC grasped the moment and presented their Team Fiji that was to compete at the (South) Pacific Games during the festivities of the Olympic Day Run.
2007: British Olympic Association organised Olympic Day Run on three different school locations and invited well-known athletes and Olympians to take their part in it and share experience with the pupils.
2007: CAN and VANOC organised together the Olympic Day Run in 2007 and invited famous Olympic athletes (such as Crispin Lipscomb – half-pipe snowboarding, Cindy Klassen – speed skating, Cassie Campbell – ice-hockey, and Karen Furneaux – canoe-kayak) to share their experience with pupils.
2007: H.R.H Prince Haji Sufri Bolkiah, NOC Brunei Darussalam president took part in the Olympic Day Run organised by the NOC and run with all the participants.
And finally 1987: The Virgin Islands Olympic Committee started organising the Olympic Day Run back in 1980’s and had kept the photographs of their first Olympic Day Runs.