Our region

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Our region region of Prešov

• Sports events

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Events in Prešov

• Run of Terry Fox
• Quadrille European Dance Festival
• Evening Run
• TESCO Run for life
• ....etc.

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Run of Terry Fox

• Voluntary charity event
• In honor of Canadian Terry Fox
• Profits- for research of cancer
• 16th year in this year
• Not competitive
• Anyone can participate
• Track can be completed in any way...
• Idea- to join to the idea of Terry Fox

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• Who was Terry Fox?
• In 18 years doctors had to amputate his leg- it
  was suffering from cancer
• He decided to help in the fight
• He ran across Canada and he organized financial
  collection
• 12. april 1980 he started his race- Marathon of
  Hope
• 143 days- 5565 kilometres

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• Daily- 42 kilometres
• In Thunder Bay in province of Ontario he was
  forced to end his marathon
• Cancer- to the lungs
• 28. June 1981 he died
• National hero
• Marathon became tradition

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Quadrille Europan Dance Festival

• international Dance Festival
• dancing in different cities
• founded in Slovenia
• starts on the third Friday in May at 12
• entry into the Guinness Book of World Records
• 32 416 young people

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What is Quadrille?

• is an historic dance
• performed by four couples in a square formation
• came to exist in the 17th century in a France
• the music composed Johann Strauss

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Quadrille in Prešov

• involved for the fourth time
• 5 184 partakers
• the second place in a Europe
• danced pupils from elementary and secondary
  schools
• participated 29 schools from Prešov
• Idea ensure the presence of different schools

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• M. Nakatová K. Kalinicová 2.D