{"id":37751,"date":"2018-06-22T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-06-22T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/schools-in-huye-district-grace-olympic-week\/"},"modified":"2018-06-22T15:55:45","modified_gmt":"2018-06-22T15:55:45","slug":"schools-in-huye-district-grace-olympic-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/schools-in-huye-district-grace-olympic-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Schools in Huye district grace Olympic Week celebrations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every year the day is celebrated by Olympians across the world on 23 June, to rejoice the founding of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and the modern Olympic Movement by Pierre de Coubertin in 1894.<\/p>\n<p>RNOSC First Vice President, Madam Felicite Rwemalika who was present said that to mark the day, the Olympic week celebrations kicked off Wednesday with mini football competitions like this one taking place at Kamena Huye stadium.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Olympic week celebration is aimed at ensuring that the positive values of the Olympic Movement, excellence, respect and friendship, are promoted among the children, \u201cShe revealed.<\/p>\n<p>In his message, Thomas Bach, the IOC President has reminded the National Olympic Committees that the Olympic day is an excellent way to encourage all people to lead healthy and active lives, while promoting the role of sport in society.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-25873 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/dsc_0045-14-622d2.jpg\" alt=\"Schools in Huye district grace Olympic Week celebrations\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A total of nine schools on Wednesday graced the Olympic Week celebrations 2018 that started at Kamena Stadium in Huye district. The Olympic week celebrations organized by the Rwanda National Olympic and Sports Committee is meant to mark the 70th International Olympic Day in Huye district.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-37751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37751\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37751"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=37751"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=37751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}