Sport in the name of good – Pyatigorskaya Pravda
The start and finish were located this time near the lake. Incendiary music, peppy people in tracksuits, growth dolls and animators – all this created a unique atmosphere of a sports holiday.
Before the event, the traditional greeting from the project director of Mikhail Shorov, as well as the deputy of the Duma of the Stavropol Territory, director of the Vita+group of companies, which is a permanent sponsor of rays, Zhanik Goncharov, deputy of the Duma of Pyatigorsk Konstantin Sukharev Jean of Pyatigorsk and Circassian diocese Vladimir. Then – a peppy warm -up and a long -awaited start.
The number: almost 500 people from 15 regions of Russia took part in the race for 2 kilometers.
“This is a race for people with a big heart,” said Mikhail Shorov. “Today, lovers of Scandinavian walking will also overcome the distance and those who wanted to participate in the relay race will run. We took such a step to expand our family lovers of sports events. Geography, as always, is extensive. People from different cities come to us. Mostly from the southern. Of course, this is a large number of local residents who have made it a rule to help those who need support, and open the running season with a good, good deed.
Mikhail Shorov said that the organizers and participants of the race help Milena Fedotenkova. At the age of 10, she is already a winner and winner of many regional and regional table tennis competitions, even part of the top 10 best athletes in Russia in his year of birth. In 2019, after a terrible car accident, the doctors issued a verdict: the girl will not be able to walk. Milena underwent several operations, long rehabilitation, but did not leave the sport. At the invitation of the Paralympic Committee of the Russian Federation, having visited the House of Paralympic Sports, she set herself a goal to win a Paralympic medal! The goal of a charity race is to acquire an expensive professional sports stroller for Milena. Its cost is 350 thousand rubles. But she will allow the girl to participate in all -Russian and international competitions, gradually approaching the dream. The stroller is created according to the individual indicators of the girl for her personally.
Not a single event is missed by the Vita+team. The company not only support charity events, but also care about the health of their team. The national team participants said that joint sports, especially in the framework of such vivid events, brings together colleagues, makes the atmosphere at workplaces more friendly and warm.
Unusual teams took part in the race.For example, Eya Vasilyeva from Rostov-on-Don came to Pyatigorsk for one day with five of her six children specifically just to become part of this sports festival. Her younger twins are only seven months old. It is noteworthy that in April last year, Eya participated in the KAVKAZ.RUN charity run, being pregnant with babies. So, in a sense, the girls are already activists of the project. She said that they like to come to Pyatigorsk with the whole family for these atmospheric and kind competitions. Trying not to miss a single one.
Each resident and guest of the resort town, who took part in the charity race for the fulfillment of desires, helped Milena get closer to her dream of becoming a champion, glorifying her native land and instilling hope in the guys like her.