2024-06-24 11:26:53
On the Kallimarmaro Stadium, greater than 400 younger and older Olympic taekwondo athletes had been current and had the chance to provide a unique efficiency in a serious sporting occasion referred to as “Collectively in Sport – Collectively in Taekwondo”, as a part of the “Collectively in Taekwondo” program. Sport – Part II” and the actions of the Refugee Week Greece Competition.
Among the many athletes had been two of our kids, who had been invited by the Hellenic Taekwondo Federation. It’s about Ilianna Sedemente and Daniel Kayaninen of the Titans of Rhodes.
The Hellenic Taekwondo Federation, which was represented by its president, Michalis Physentzidis and its common secretary, Nikos Thomaidis, had a catalytic function within the occasion, in collaboration with METAdrasis, the Hellenic Olympic Committee, the Olympic Museum of Athens and the Excessive Fee of UN for Refugees.
Aside from the demonstrations, in competitors and poomsae, youngsters and younger refugees had the pleasure of attending to know Olympic taekwondo, with the skilled coaches educating them the secrets and techniques of the game. Actually, refugees and athletes turned one shortly earlier than the tip of the occasion, giving a unique notice to this vital occasion.
The “pole of attraction” for the attendees was the silver medal and the competitors chest of the late Olympian, Alexandros Nikolaidis, from the Olympic Video games “Athens 2004”, which the Olympic Museum of Athens had the chance to exhibit on the venue of the occasion. On the similar time, Kallimarmaros hosted a portray exhibition of the Pan-Hellenic Competitors “All of us belong to the identical group” by the United Nations Excessive Commissioner for Refugees, through which greater than 1,800 college students participated with sketches, posters and comics.
“A lifelong dream got here true. Olympic Taekwondo was present in some of the vital monuments of Athens, of the entire of Greece and of the entire world, the Panathenaic Stadium, in a landmark occasion in sports activities occasions. The Olympic Taekwondo household was current, giving depth and tempo to an occasion that was realized in collaboration with many organizations, sports activities and never solely, to whom we particularly thank.
Particularly, METAdrasis and its individuals who warmly supported an motion with a particular semiotics, because it takes place at a time when our planet is “plagued” by wars with youngsters as victims, who, amongst all others, are referred to as to go away their homelands with an unknown, most frequently, vacation spot. ELOT will help the efforts of each group that has to do with youngsters”, emphasised Michalis Fysentzidis.