2024 RIF of NOVA FunD- and Fun-Raiser: BooK Olympics
With the Paris 2024 Summer Olympic games in mind, RIF of NOVA is getting into the act, too! The theme of our 2024 fund- and fun-raiser is: Book Olympics! Letters will be sent to our supporters to help us raise the funds we need to supply new books to 20,000+ deserving children in Northern Virginia. Details are in development, but here are some of the activities to share the fun!
Book Olympics book distributions are being held in some of the schools we serve. Several schools have held them already -- complete with flags, games, medals, an Olympics photo booth, and, of course, books galore! Find pics by clicking here! A Book Olympics book "contest." Share your story about sports! It can be a personal story focusing on your own or a family member's athletic experience or a tribute to a real-life athlete you admire. Maybe you read a book about an athlete who inspired you. Anything relevant to sports can be included. In late fall, ten winners will be chosen by the RIF of NOVA board to receive a thematically relevant coffee table book. An Olympics and Sports books resource page. It's available now and can be found by clicking here. Read through the page to find sports books sure to please any child in your family! The official Olympic dates are July 26 through August 11. The Paris 2024 Paralympic Games will take place between 28 August 28 and September 8 and will bring together as many as 4,400 athletes from around the world. RIF of NOVA's Book Olympics celebration will take place through the rest of the calendar year! Join us for the fund- and fun-raising! |
Interested in getting into the Olympic spirit? Learn some of the facts! Did you know, for example, that "the last time the Summer Olympics were held in Paris in 1924, women made up 5% of the athletes. One hundred years later, women will make up 50% of athletes for the first time ever! The 2024 Paris Olympic Games will be the first Games to reach full gender parity. Out of the 10,500 athletes participating in the Games, 5,250 will be men and 5,250 women." -- via The female athlete project.
Not only that, for the first time, the Olympic Village will feature a nursery where athlete parents can leave their babies. France is also making accommodations for breastfeeding mothers. For the first time in the history of the Olympic Summer Games, the Opening Ceremony will not take place in a stadium. Paris 2024 is breaking new ground by bringing sports into the city and the same will be true of the Opening Ceremony, set to be held in the heart of the city along its main artery: the Seine. The Olympics will be "breaking in" a new sport -- breakdancing! Breaking (or breakdancing) originated in the United States in the 1970s. After its resounding success as an exhibition sport at the Youth Olympic Games in Buenos Aires in 2018, the Olympic Committee has officially inaugurated it as a medal event for the Paris Games. Olympic surfing will be held 12 time zones away from Paris! Introduced as an Olympic sport in the Tokyo 2020 Games, surfing returns, but far away from the host city. For the first time in Olympics history, the host city is staging an event in one of its overseas territories…12 time zones away! Teahupo’o Beach in Tahiti will be the venue for this year’s surfing competition – one of the most impressive wave destinations in the world. Interested in some Olympic history? Here's a blog with some interesting factoids. Did you know that the first Olympic Games took place in the 8th century BC/BCE in Olympia, Greece. They were held every four years for 12 centuries. Then, in the 4th century AD/CE, all pagan festivals were banned by Emperor Theodosius I, and the Olympics were no more until 1500 years later. |
Book Olympics book distributions in some of our schools
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A mom relates her son's diving experiences
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Children's books about the Olympics abound! Check out our Resource page!
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