The Olympic Week celebrations continued on Tuesday afternoon at Ecole Secondaire St Vincent Umuhoza in Musanze.
This is the second day of celebrations after the weeklong celebrations were launched at the OlympAfrica center in Nyanza on Monday afternoon.
The RNOSC head of women and sport commission Felicite Rwemalika explained to the schoolgirls the Olympic values of striving for excellence, celebrating friendship and demonstrating respect.
Rwemalika said, “Let us embrace sport as girls because through sport we make friends and learn to work together through collaboration. Sport also guides us to be socially responsible as it promotes fairplay.”
Three sport disciplines including archery, fencing and taekwondo were exhibited to the hundreds of school children who were in attendance.
Three representatives from each of the three national federations of archery, fencing and taekwondo were involved in the exhibition of the sports disciplines. Two of the representatives children’s alcoholism the technics and skills of the sport while the other representative explained the scoring system and how to win a match.
After the exhibition, the schoolchildren of Ecole Secondaire St Vincent Umuhoza were given a chance to ask questions that were answered by the federation representatives.
The headmistress of Ecole Secondaire St Vincent Umuhoza, Christine Uwanyirigira said, “The girls liked the experience as sport helps them to relax after schoolwork and for sure we invite you to return and continue with this program.”
Everyone got a chance of trying out the sport that they liked and national federations established interested persons that will enroll on future programs in these sports disciplines at the school premises in Musanze.
Meanwhile, the Olympic Week celebrations will head to Karongi in the west on Wednesday at 15:00hrs at IPRC West.