The Liberia National Olympic Committee (LNOC) has announced the celebration of Olympic Day for the year 2025. The day will be observed under the theme: “Let’s Move.” The day will also be commemorated through the sponsorship of Olympic Solidarity. According to the LNOC, events marking the official celebrations will be held on Saturday, June 21, 2025 at the Unification Sports Park in PHP Community on Lynch Street in Monrovia. As far as events planned for the day are concerned, a lecturer will focus on the founding of the Olympic Movement, while sporting exhibitions will be held, comprising taekwondo, wushu and handball as well as basketball and volleyball (three on three).
Olympic Day is an annual tradition that dates back to 1948, as the day allows Olympians and those involved in the Olympic Movement to reflect on the values of the Olympic Games. At the 41st Session of the International Olympic Committee in 1947, Doctor Gruss, an IOC member in Czechoslovakia, proposed the idea of an annual global celebration to promote the Olympic movement and its ideas. It took another 30 years for the event to officially catch on, with Olympic Day added to the Olympic Charter in 1978 and National Olympic Committees asked to organize events in celebration. It is a day which allows athletes of the past and present to share their memories of competing at an Olympic Games, as countries around the globe hold activities to promote the values of how sport can make the world a better place.