Hundreds Of Kids Join Olympic and Paralympic Sport Clinics In Pacific Palisades

PACIFIC PALISADES, CA — More than 500 youths participated in eight Olympic and Paralympic sport clinics with more than 30 U.S. Olympic and Paralympic athletes Friday at Will Rogers State Beach to mark Olympic Day.

Clinics were held in fencing, gymnastics, Paralympic sitting volleyball, rugby, table tennis, team handball, track and field and volleyball.

"We were proud to provide young Angelenos the chance to learn, take part in, and be inspired by Olympic Day and the values it supports," said LA84 Foundation President and CEO Renata Simril.

The foundation helped organize the event in conjunction with LA 2024, the committee seeking to bring the 2024 Olympics to Los Angeles.

The LA84 Foundation manages Southern California's share of the surplus from the 1984 Summer Olympics and supports a wide array of youth sports programming.

Olympic Day is held annually on June 23 to commemorate the birth of the modern Olympic Games in 1894.

There were 2,400 Olympic Day events scheduled in 1,503 communities around the nation with more than 600,000 participants, according to the U.S. Olympic Committee.

City News Service