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Olympic Run on July 25

CHENNAI, JULY 15. About 5,000 students, sportspersons, former Olympians, Arjuna awardees and international stars are expected to take part in the Olympic Run, to be held at Marina on July 25. This is being organised by the Kerala Sports Persons Association (KESPA), a Chennai-based sports promoting club, with the support of Hindustan College of Engineering.

Briefing newspersons, W.I. Dawaram, President, Tamil Nadu Athletics Association, and a patron of KESPA, said that the main objective of organising such a run was to promote the Olympic movement and peace.

It would also provide a platform for all the eminent sportspersons and sports lovers of Chennai to wish success to the Indian contingent to Athens Olympics.

Olympians such as Krishnamurthy, V. Baskaran, Md. Riaz, V.J. Philip, Munir Sait, Tirumalvalavan (all from hockey), V. Devarajan (boxing), Jayalakshmi, Thirugnanadurai (athletics), Gnanasekaran and Adisekar (weighlifting) and Arjuna awardees and celebrities such as Ramanathan Krishnan, Ramesh Krishnan, V. Chandrasekar, S. Raman, Jaganath, S. Venkataraghavan, Vijay Amritraj, Anand Amritraj, Vellaisamy, V. Anusuya Bai, A. Ramana Rao, G.E. Sridharan, M. Tamilselvam, E. Karunakaran, R. Gnanasekaran, Charles Borromeo, D. Rajaram, Viswanathan Anand, Sasikiran, Anju George, Roopa Unnikrishnan, K. Saramma, Wilson Cherian, Thandavamuthu, V. Kutraleeswaran, Mariya Irudhayam, P. Ganesan, S. Rajarathinam, G. Devan are likely to take part in the run and the subsequent function that has been arranged to honour these outstanding sportspersons near the War Memorial.

However, the oldest Olympian (1948) from Chennai E.C.P. Prabhakar is unlikely to take part because of ill health.

The Olympic Run is from Gandhi Statue to War Memorial. School and college students who want to run can register their names at 5.45 a.m. on July 25 at a counter near the Gandhi Statue.

The first 1,000 entries will receive KESPA Olympic Run kit. Mr. K. Natarajan, IPS, Commissioner of Police, will inaugurate the event at 6.45 a.m.

The KESPA President, Shiny Wilson, and Secretary, C. Jayashankar Menon, along with Ashok Varghese, Joint Director, Hindustan College, spoke about the arrangements.

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