Thousands of people to join Olympic Run Day

Residents of Hai Duong at the for Public Health 2016. (Photo: VNA)

HCM City (VNA) – The Olympic Run Day
for 2017 will take place across the country at 7am on March 26,
according to the Vietnam National
Administration of Sports.

The annual event is
one of the activities celebrating the 71st anniversary of the sports sector as
well as the 86th year of the Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union.

The
event aims to encourage Vietnamese to take part in regular physical exercise.

In HCM
City, more than 5,000 people, including students, State officials, military
officials and the elderly, will walk or run around both sides of Nguyen
Hue Walking Street
downtown, according to the Department of Culture and Sports.

The
Olympic Run Day is an international movement promoting the practice of sports
around the world.

Last
year, around seven million people in 63 cities and provinces in the country
participated in the run.-VNA