This year’s event was held yesterday over the Sliema and St Julian’s routes.

It consisted of fun runs for kids of different ages and the main event - a run over 10kilometres.

Everyone knows about the Olympic Games and the International Olympic Committee (IOC); in fact the IOC has been around since 1894 when Baron Pierre de Courbetin took the initiative to reintroduce the Olympic Games as we now know them, with the first Modern Games taking place in Athens in 1896.

The creation of the IOC took place on 23 June and as a way of commemorating this movement, the Olympic Day is celebrated around the world.

The tradition of holding the Run on the weekend before or after 23 June, with an Olympic Day Run is also the tradition of the Malta Olympic Committee with this run becoming more and more popular every year.

The Olympic Day Run has developed into the only worldwide celebration of the Olympic Day, and helps to spread the Olympic ideals to every corner of the world. The purpose and objective of this run is all about promoting the practice of participation in sport by all, from all corners of the world and all walks of life, regardless of ones athletics ability.

As in previous years, the MOC teamed up with McDonald’s and the MAAA’s to organise this event, where official Olympic Day Run T-shirts were given to all participants, including an official Olympic Day Run IOC Certificate signed by the President of the IOC Dr Jacques Rogge.