Move­ment, mo­ti­va­tion, and joy res­onat­ed through­out the Queen’s Park Sa­van­nah West as the T&T Olympic Com­mit­tee (TTOC) en­thu­si­as­ti­cal­ly cel­e­brat­ed Olympic Day 2025 on Mon­day.

Echo­ing the glob­al theme, "Let’s Move," the event en­cour­aged hun­dreds of young par­tic­i­pants, na­tion­al ath­letes, and com­mu­ni­ty mem­bers to em­brace ac­tive lifestyles and dis­cov­er the joy of sport.

Un­der sun­ny skies and the vi­brant at­mos­phere of T&T’s beloved Sa­van­nah, the fes­tiv­i­ties be­gan with a heart­felt in­vo­ca­tion fol­lowed by a cap­ti­vat­ing steel­pan ren­di­tion of the na­tion­al an­them by the tal­ent­ed Isa­iah El­lis.

Mas­ter of Cer­e­monies, Sher­von B. Cof­fee, skil­ful­ly guid­ed at­ten­dees through an ex­hil­a­rat­ing day that com­bined fun with mean­ing­ful en­gage­ment, ac­cord­ing to a re­lease.

The cel­e­bra­tion al­so high­light­ed the TTOC’s on­go­ing ini­tia­tive for "Safe Sport", em­pha­siz­ing the im­por­tance of safe, in­clu­sive sport­ing en­vi­ron­ments.

TTOC vice pres­i­dent Son­ja John­son of­fi­cial­ly opened the cel­e­bra­tion, em­pha­siz­ing the event’s mis­sion to fos­ter uni­ty, en­cour­age phys­i­cal ac­tiv­i­ty, and cham­pi­on Olympic val­ues: "Ex­cel­lence, Friend­ship, and Re­spect".

Cen­tral to the day’s ex­cite­ment was the hands-on ex­pe­ri­ence across a spec­trum of sports booths, fea­tur­ing dis­ci­plines such as weightlift­ing, taek­won­do, cy­cling, ca­noe­ing, box­ing, rug­by, vol­ley­ball, and more. Young­sters from schools in­clud­ing Bel­mont Gov­ern­ment, Seereer­am Vedic, Bish­op’s Cen­te­nary, As­cen­sion An­gli­can, Cou­va An­gli­can Pri­ma­ry, St Mary’s, and Rain­bow Res­cue en­thu­si­as­ti­cal­ly in­ter­act­ed with na­tion­al sport­ing he­roes, cre­at­ing un­for­get­table mo­ments of men­tor­ship and in­spi­ra­tion.

Cel­e­brat­ed T&T ath­letes, in­clud­ing Olympic cy­clists Kwe­si Browne and Nicholas Paul, swim­mer Zachary An­tho­ny, and box­ers Tiana Guy and Olympian Nigel Paul, brought sto­ries of re­silience, and the joy of move­ment di­rect­ly to the as­pir­ing young ath­letes.

Olympic Day 2025 al­so marked a sig­nif­i­cant glob­al mo­ment, co­in­cid­ing with the sym­bol­ic han­dover of lead­er­ship from In­ter­na­tion­al Olympic Com­mit­tee (IOC) pres­i­dent Thomas Bach to the new 10th IOC pres­i­dent Kirsty Coven­try in Lau­sanne, Switzer­land. Lo­cal­ly, the TTOC reaf­firmed its com­mit­ment to key cam­paigns, in­clud­ing "Safe Sport", sus­tain­abil­i­ty ini­tia­tives, gen­der eq­ui­ty, and on­go­ing ath­lete sup­port pro­grammes.

Ex­pand­ing the mes­sage fur­ther, the TTOC an­nounced plans to in­clude To­ba­go promi­nent­ly in the "Let’s Move" cam­paign. This out­reach will en­sure the spir­it of move­ment, learn­ing, and dis­cov­ery, cen­tral to the Olympic Day 2025 theme, reach­es and in­spires schools across To­ba­go.

To­ba­go, Let's Move!

The re­lease added: "The TTOC ex­tends deep ap­pre­ci­a­tion to event spon­sors Guilt­less Yo­gurt, Ray-Hass Au­to, Mario’s Piz­za, Top­pers, and Blue Wa­ters, whose sup­port was in­stru­men­tal in bring­ing the com­mu­ni­ty to­geth­er.

"Olympic Day 2025 was tru­ly a dy­nam­ic re­minder of how sport unites com­mu­ni­ties, fos­ters friend­ships, and in­spires every­one to move with pur­pose and joy.

"Let’s keep mov­ing to­geth­er for a stronger, health­i­er T&T!"