About 5 children born in the year of Kosovo's Independence, 2008, have marked Olympic Day 2018 today.
The main event was held in Pristina, where about 2 children participated. They ran from "Zahir Pajaziti" square to the Theater.
The running competitions were also organized this time in two categories, that of women and men born in 2008.
In the category of girls, Medina Fejza from "7 Marsi" school came first, Dea Halimi from "Elena Gjika" school took second place, while Medina Bilalli from "Zenel Hajdini" school finished in third place.
While for the boys, there were more participants and the competitions were more interesting. Engjëll Shehu from the "Mileniumi Tretë" school was the first, the second place was taken by Rin Ahmeti from the "Hasan Prishtina" school, while the third place went to two contestants at the same time, Eduart Haliti and Jon Ramadani from the "Zenel Hajdini" school. ".
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Besim Hasani declared after finishing the race for KosovaPress that he is quite happy that everything has gone as the KOK has planned and will try to continue this organization even further since this is a centenary project.
The Olympic Day has been organized by the Olympic Committee of Kosovo since 1996, and the purpose of this day is to promote sports, which means that as many children as possible are involved in sports regardless of their age, gender and abilities. This has an extremely special reason because those who do sports, they create 27 life skills. The United Nations and the countries of the United Nations consider sport as a school of life and we want these children who today are somewhere around 5000 to 6000 children who are running. There are 2400 in Pristina, but there are over 3000 in the six centers and other municipalities.
The competitor who took first place in the women's category briefly stated that she was very happy for the success she achieved on the Olympic Day organized by the Kosovo Olympic Committee.
"I am very happy that the independence competition is being held today and I have won the first place".
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This was the seventh edition that the Kosovo Olympic Committee marked this day, after those organized in 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016 and 2017.
The innovation this year from previous years was the organization in the other six centers of Kosovo, such as in Gjilan, Pejë, Gjakovë, Prizren, Mitrovica and Ferizaj.