Olympic Month 2025 / Day begins
This year, as part of the Olympic Month, schools are invited to create a viral video that will represent pupils’ fascination with sports, felt with a particular sport or athlete, the Olympic values and the promotion of the Olympic Spirit, publish it on social networks, thus participating in the competition. The most votes in the received schools will be evaluated and four of them will be on a athlete and a known content creator to take a sporty and exciting time with the students.
The Olympic Month is organized to update the importance of movement and an active lifestyle in the daily lives of society, as well as more broadly informed about the Olympic values. Throughout the month, everyone has the opportunity to engage in walking and running challenges, allowing them to outdo themselves by participating in distances of different lengths.
Several European countries take part in the challenge, expressing support for fair play and peace. The distance to be carried out in each country is different given the distance to the European capital Brussels. In the case of Latvia they are 1 454km (Riga-Brussels). At the end of the Olympic month, three participants of the campaign will be drawn to win prizes from the Latvian Olympic collection.
The running challenge has the opportunity to take both 5 and 10km distances, where the best participants from the Latvian Olympic collection will receive the best participants in three categories, taking into account the results set, as well as the raffle winners from all challenge participants.
From the first day of the Olympic Month, participants have the opportunity to learn the Olympic exercise movements, which are authored by Certified Dance, Physical Trainer and Choreographer Marta Kalēja-Miller. There are 2 complexes of exercises – the smallest with the « Tuta Things » fox and the fennel, at the song « Sports! », But for all other gymnasts at the band « Olas » (with Esmeralda and Markmate’s participation) songs « The Sun. Weave ». Throughout the month, participants can learn movements to exercise in all Latvian exercises together on Olympic Day.
The Olympic Day is a world -renowned movement, which has been supported by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) since 1987, calling on the National Olympic Committee of the World Countries to celebrate the SOC’s birthday. The Latvian Olympic Committee (LOC) joined the call in 1992. The Olympic Day is the only world event organized by the Olympic movement every year. Most of the National Olympic Committees in five continents use this opportunity to promote the Olympic values - excellence, friendship, respect. In Latvia, the Olympic Day is organized in the spring, thus celebrating the anniversary of the founding of the LOC on April 23.
The project is implemented by the Latvian Olympic Committee (LOC) in cooperation with the Olympic Solidarity and the support of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Latvia.
