Irving to celebrate Tokyo Olympics with opening ceremony, skateboarding, boxing and fun run

The Tokyo Olympics are just some weeks away, however the celebration will start this week in Irving.

Irving will host its first-ever Olympic Day, with cricket and water polo demonstrations, archery, desk tennis tournaments, boxing and extra.

Festivities start Thursday with a gap ceremony and symbolic torch lighting after which lengthen into the weekend.

Right here’s a listing of occasions:

Thursday

• Opening Ceremony and symbolic torch lighting, 10:30 a.m. Thursday at Levy Occasion Plaza, 501 E. Las Colinas Blvd. Ray Cerda, an Olympic torch bearer for the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics, will mild the symbolic torch. Cerda was a proficient highschool soccer participant when a automobile accident left him a quadriplegic. He went on the compete as a para-athlete in observe at The College of Texas at Arlington after which served for greater than twenty years because the director of parks and recreation in Irving.
• Boxing match, 7 p.m. at Irving Police Athletic League, 1550 Rock Island Highway

Friday

• Skateboarding exhibition, 6-8 p.m., Vigorous Skate Park, 909 N. O’Connor Highway
• Water polo exhibition, 6-8 p.m., North Lake School Natatorium, 5001 N MacArthur Blvd.

Saturday

• Cricket demonstrations, 11th of September a.m. at Riverside Multifields, 8954 Riverside Drive
• Levy Discipline Day, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. at Levy Occasion Plaza, 501 E. Las Colinas Blvd. Occasions and demonstrations will embrace archery, bocce ball and a soccer clinic.
• Desk tennis match for ages 13 to 17, 9 a.m.-5 p.m., Senter Park Recreation Heart, 901 Heart Highway. Registration is $10.
• Olympic Enjoyable Run, 5K and 10K races, 6:40 a.m., round Las Colinas and Lake Carolyn. Registration is $15 to $40.

Olympic Day is a worldwide annual occasion created in 1948 by the Worldwide Olympic Committee to provide individuals all over the place alternatives to take part in sports activities.

In Irving, the U.S.-Mexico Cultural and Schooling Basis is internet hosting Olympic Day with a number of companions, together with the town, Go to Irving, Irving Marathon and the Japan-America Society of Dallas Fort Value.