Mayor Proclaims Olympic Day and Citywide Celebration
June 23 2009 - 3:38PM
PR Newswire (US)
HOUSTON, June 23 /PRNewswire/ -- Mayor White announced today that
June 23 will be celebrated citywide as Olympic Day with a special
event featuring former Olympian Leigh Barczewski at the NFL Youth
Education Town #2 at James Driver Park Boys and Girls Club
facility. Leigh will present on one of the 4 Olympic values,
Respect, as well as share with the children his experience as an
Olympic cyclist in the 1976 games. Atos Origin will be sponsoring
the event along with the Houston Sports Authority. At the urging of
Chicago Mayor Richard Daley during the U.S. Conference of Mayors in
January in Washington, D.C., Mayor White joined with fellow mayors
across the country in a collective pledge of support for hosting
the Olympic Games in Chicago in 2016. Today's mayoral proclamation
and the community's cooperative celebration with other cities will
send a clear message to the International Olympic Committee that
our city and the United States of America support the Chicago 2016
bid for the Olympic Games. An announcement of the site for the 2016
Olympic Games is forthcoming in October 2009. Olympic Day is a
worldwide commemoration of Baron Pierre de Coubertin's June 23,
1894, convening of the first International Olympic Committee (IOC)
meeting at the Sorbonne in Paris, and the founding of the Modern
Olympic Games. National Olympic Committees (NOCs) throughout the
world will also participate in the international celebration, with
each Olympic Committee sending Olympic Day greetings to
participating nations. WHAT: Olympic Day event WHEN: June 23, 2009
at 11:00a.m. WHERE: NFL Youth Education Town #2 at James Driver
Park 10918 1/2 Bentley Houston, TX 77093 About HCHSA The Harris
County-Houston Sports Authority, the "Sports Authority", is a
political subdivision of the City, the County and the State of
Texas, created for the purposes set forth in the Concurrent Order
and the Act, including planning, acquiring, establishing,
developing, constructing or renovating of one or more sports and
community venue projects and related infrastructure. About Atos
Origin Atos Origin is one of the world's leading international
information technology services companies. Its business is turning
client vision into results through the application of consulting,
systems integration and managed operations. The company's annual
revenues total more than $8.3 billion and it employs over 50,000
people in 40 countries. Atos Origin is the Worldwide Information
Technology Partner for the Olympic Games and has a client base of
international blue-chip companies across all sectors. Atos Origin
is listed on the Paris Eurolist Market and trades as Atos Origin,
Atos Worldline and Atos Consulting. In North America, Atos Origin
has offices located in Houston and Dallas Texas, Columbus and
Cincinnati Ohio, and in Toronto Canada and hosts several clients
nationwide. http://www.na.atosorigin.com/ DATASOURCE: Atos Origin
CONTACT: Rachel Macik of Atos Origin, +1-281-451-0389, ; or Emily
Yates, +1-713-308-5900, , for Atos Origin Web Site:
http://www.na.atosorigin.com/
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