Health and wellness is the focus of the Trinidad and Tobago Olympic Committee (TTOC) its corporate partners- the Guardian Group of companies, Bptt and Olympic day partner Chaguaramas Development Authority (CDA) when the TTOC celebrates Olympic day on Saturday at the Chagville beach facility Chaguaramas. The day’s activities begin at 9:30 a.m. and will conclude at 3:00 p.m.
Since 2009, the IOC’s (International Olympic Committee) theme for Olympic day has been learn, move and discover the joy found in sport and physical activity. The TTOC’s Olympic day event is used to encourage children, young people and not-so- young people to try out some kind of sport activity.
Children from various primary schools and homes are transported to Chagville beach where national sport organisations (NSOs) will introduce them to the various sports.
Stacey Cateau of the TTOC Education and Culture department is confident that the effort to introduce the children to sport activities with an emphasis on fun and safety is an important initiative.
“Health and wellness is a lifestyle and a mindset. If we want the population to embrace the notion of health and wellness not only must the introduction to sport and physical activity be done at the early childhood age but it must be done with an emphasis on fun and participation.”
Olympic day is a worldwide event and a key date in the Olympic movement calendar. On the 23 June 1894 the Olympic Games was re-established as proposed by Baron Pierre de Coubertin. Since then the 23 June is considered the birth date of the modern Olympic Movement.
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