Times Of Swaziland: SWIMMER HOY TRIES TEQBALL IN OLYMPIC DAY

SWIMMER HOY TRIES TEQBALL IN OLYMPIC DAY
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Machawe Fakudze on 16/07/2022 09:13:00


MBABANE – The Olympic Day which was held at the Prince of Wales Sports Ground
yesterday was a huge success. The Olympic Day is the celebration of sports,
health, and being together and celebrated annually on June 23, but Eswatini
celebrated it yesterday. The Olympic Day was graced by eight associations under
the Eswatini Sports and Recreational Council (ESRC) and eight Mbabane-based
primary schools. The mainstay of it all was the participation of some of the
Commonwealth Games 2022 Birmingham-bound Team Eswatini members like swimmers
Hayley Hoy and Simanga Dlamini among others. The athletes of the various
associations tried different sporting codes yesterday and it was Hoy who enjoyed
herself in teqball.
Enjoying
For once, she was not swimming but playing some football in the form of teqball.
This was the case even for the other athletes and they all appeared to be
enjoying the experience, with the Olympic spirit burning across them throughout
the event. The associations that were present and introducing their sporting
activities to the pupils were Eswatini Boxing Association (EBA), Eswatini
Cycling Association (ECA), Eswatini National Volleyball Association (ENVA),
Eswatini Rugby Union (ERU), Athletics Eswatini (AE), Eswatini Teqball Federation
(ETF) and Eswatini Swimming Association (ESA).
Eswatini Olympic and Commonwealth Games Association (EOCGA) Communications
Officer Mthulisi Dlamini said they were impressed with the number of
associations and schools which attended the celebration. “We are happy about
the attendance here today and it was the same at KaLanga last week where we also
had a successful event which started with a road show,” Dlamini said. He also
said what made the first one more interesting was that it coincided with Shukuma
Eswatini, which has the pulling power to bring more people.