7,000 people will participate in the Olympic Running Day for public health in Vinh City

Comrade Nguyen Thi Thanh Huong chaired the meeting. Photo: Duc Anh

On March 16, at the Department of Culture and Sports of Nghe An, the Organizing Committee of the Launching Ceremony of the Olympic Running Day for the Health of the People of Nghe An Province in 2023 held a meeting to discuss and collect comments from relevant agencies.

Attending the ceremony were comrades: Nguyen Thi Thanh Huong - Deputy Director of the Department of Culture and Sports; Nguyen Thi Thu Huong - Deputy Editor-in-Chief of Nghe An Newspaper; representatives of a number of relevant departments, branches and sectors.

Comrade Nguyen Thi Thu Huong - Deputy Editor-in-Chief of Nghe An Newspaper spoke at the meeting. Photo: Duc Anh

The 2023 Olympic Running Day for the Health of the People of Nghe An Province is organized to continue promoting and improving the quality of the campaign "All people practice sports following the example of great Uncle Ho"; to propagate and raise awareness of the role, significance and effects of physical exercise and sports in protecting and improving people's health and quality of life, the quality of human resources; to build a healthy lifestyle and cultural environment, contributing to strengthening the great national unity bloc, at the same time, launching a walking movement for students, strengthening physical education in schools, creating a habit of regular physical exercise and sports to improve physical fitness for everyone in general and students in schools in particular.

Comrade Nguyen Huu Phuong - Head of Sports Management Department, Nghe An Department of Culture and Sports spoke at the meeting. Photo: Duc Anh

The 2023 Olympic Run for the Health of the People of Nghe An Province will take place at 7:00 a.m. on March 19 at Ho Chi Minh Square, Vinh City. This year's run will attract nearly 7,000 participants, including 3 main events: Olympic Run for the Health of the People, student walking, and cross-country running.

This is the largest program ever, so the Organizing Committee pays great attention to the review and inspection work before the ceremony takes place.

At the meeting, the Organizing Committee announced the route and instructed relevant agencies on the starting location, route, and order of participating units...

Also at the meeting, many comments were raised by relevant agencies. These included ensuring safety for students; instructing participants to run in the correct order, creating a beautiful image for the ceremony; arranging banners, slogans, posters to increase aesthetics, achieving effective propaganda to the masses; instructing communication work to press agencies...

Nearly 1,000 people participated in the run to respond to the launching ceremony. Photo: TK

Concluding the meeting, comrade Nguyen Thi Thanh Huong affirmed that this is a program of great significance for the province's physical education and sports. A successful program will spread the movement of physical education and sports among the masses; create new momentum, new motivation, improve the spiritual life of the people; enhance physical education for students...

Also at the meeting, the Deputy Director of the Department of Culture and Sports highly agreed with the comments of the participating units. At the same time, he requested the relevant parties to provide contacts for easy contact; needed to provide the time and location of the prohibited roads to the people; especially, requested Vinh city to arrange reasonable parking areas to create convenience for people when participating in the program.