Sports

Confinement is no excuse to stop leading an active lifestyle. You can still continue your sports routines, by adjusting and adapting your lockdown schedules with the help of the challenge by the programme #Treinaemcasa. This 20-minute class will help boost your stamina while it delivers guidelines to avoid personal injuries.

The first phase of the programme “Desporto para Todos” (“Sports for All”, free translation) opens on 5th February. Thus far, the National Sports Programme has supported 1.341 projects.

Don’t thrown in the towel, confinement is no excuse to becoming a couch potato, as the online programme “Domingo Saudável” [“Healthy Sunday”, free translation], on 24th January, at 10 am, will help you boost your stamina. The sessions, organised by Runporto, take to the online platform and are free of charge.

The Futebol Clube do Porto is implementing the ColorADD code system to enable those whose ability to see colour or differences in colour is decreased to have a better experience when in the stadium, visiting or watching a football game. This is the first stadium in the world to implement this code system. It is estimated that 350 million people around the world are Colorblind.

The closing performance of the municipal project “Desporto no Bairro” first edition filled the Super Bock Arena- Pavilhão Rosa Mota with light and movement. The 35 finalists, aged between 5 and 19 years, from the eight neighbourhoods included in the project, shared the stage with some of the best b-boys of the world and got the opportunity to show what they have learned these past three months.

The REMUPI, the Municipal Network of pools managed by Ágora, maintains its happy hour during the afternoon, for the 2020/2021 season, this time with discounts of circa 50%.

This year, the São Silvestre race of Porto, scheduled for 26 and 27 December, was raced online, on a virtual environment, for the first time ever. Participants could choose between the 10km race or the 5km walk, always in compliance with the safety measures issued by the health authorities, in each part of the Globe, namely physical distancing.

2021 is just around the corner and the U.Porto race group, the UP Running is back on the road on 4th January. Participation is free to all UP members. If you think you cannot accept this challenge, if you think you cannot run half a kilometres and feel exhausted, think again, because UPRunning will prove that all obstacles can be surpassed.

The Christmas Holiday Camp is back between 21 and 23 December with lots of physical activity for the younger ones. The Sports Centre of the University of Porto (CDUP-UP) will organize another edition of the Christmas Holiday Camps, targeted at children aged between 6 and 14 years.

The municipal programme “Desporto no Bairro, organised by Ágora – Cultura e Desporto do Porto, and implemented on the ground by Max Oliveira and his crew, the Momentum, the first professional street dance crew in Portugal, feature the closing concert of the project’s first edition, on 9th December, at 8.30pm, at Super Bock Arena- Pavilhão Rosa Mota. After three months, it’s time to take Breaking to the stage, which they will share with the international dance crew Ill Abilities.