Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan, June 14, 2020: The Kazakhstan National Olympic Committee will hold a special celebration of this year’s Olympic Day by inviting all children and adolescents with special needs and health risks to join a three-day online communication with the country’s Olympic champions.
The three-day online Olympic Day celebrations, which will begin on Wednesday, June 17, and continue on June 18 and 19, will be run under the theme of ‘The Olympics begins in Childhood’.
It will be the 27th time that the Kazakhstan NOC will celebrate Olympic Day.
“This year the celebration of Olympic Day will be held online,” said Andrei Kryukov, Secretary General of Kazakhstan NOC. “Our main task in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic is to remind everyone that sport is about you and me, about a healthy lifestyle, about our children.
“All the champions come from childhood, and together with our Olympians today we are referring to future champions,” Kryukov added.
Rio Olympics silver medal-winning heavyweight boxer Vasily Levit will begin the programme on June 17 by sharing his Olympic history with the children and tell them how important it is to continue doing what you love, no matter what.
On June 18, 2016 Olympics swimming champion Dmitry Balandin will hold a conversation with the children and talk about his path to the gold medal in the 200m breaststroke, and about the hurdles he had to overcome.
On June 19, freestyle acrobatics athlete and World Cup winner Zhanbota Aldabergenova and 2016 Paralympic Games swimming champion Zulfiya Gabidullina will tell their success stories and childhood dreams.
“We, the Olympians, understand very well that we are an example for our beginner young athletes. Olympic Day is a great opportunity to chat with children who are taking their first steps in sport. I really hope that after our meeting even more children will be inspired,” Balandin said.
Source: Kazakhstan NOC