Nearly 10,000 young athletes celebrating Sports’ Day

Nearly 10,000 young men from different educational institutions in Chisinau participated on Saturday, May 19 at the athletic race dedicated to the Sports’ Day and World Olympic Day. According to the event’s organisers, the competition brought together almost 108 teams each having an average number of 100 athletes. The opening ceremony was attended by representatives of the local public administration, the specialised parliamentary committee, the National Olympic Committee, as well as of the Chinese Embassy, as China is the country to host the next summer Olympic Games in 2008. The officials underlined the great importance of practising various sports and its further development in Moldova. The sportsmen had to run from the Great National Assembly Square on the Stefan cel Mare Bd. down to the University of Medicine and then back to the square.