In the early blush of Tuesday morning, Dhaka awakened to the rhythm of celebration, as the Bangladesh Olympic Association led the nation in commemorating Olympic Day 2025. With the dawn casting a soft golden hue across the capital, athletes, students, officials, and sports lovers gathered shoulder to shoulder—united under one banner, one spirit: “Let’s Move.”
This annual tribute to the International Olympic Committee’s founding wasn’t confined to the capital alone. Seven divisions across the country echoed with similar fervour, with flags fluttering and footsteps marching in honour of the Olympic spirit. The BOA orchestrated a grand rally, a living symbol of movement and unity, that surged from the Bangladesh Shishu Academy at 6:30 am and swept past landmarks like the Education Bhaban, the Secretariat, and Zero Point before culminating at the gates of the National Stadium.
At its heart stood General Waker-Uz-Zaman, Chief of Army Staff and President of the BOA, who inaugurated the rally by releasing a vibrant cluster of balloons into the morning sky. It marked not just the start of a procession, but a gesture of hope, motion, and dreams reaching beyond boundaries.
Draped in the colours of the Olympic rings, the rally saw participants from military and civil institutions, elite athletes, seasoned coaches, national sports organisers, and spirited students. The atmosphere pulsed with pride, as every step honoured the legacy of the Games and its global message of unity through sport.
The rally crescendoed into a dignified closing ceremony at the stadium, where the air grew still for a moment of tradition. The national flag rose with grace, hoisted by General Waker-Uz-Zaman. Alongside him, BOA Secretary General Syed Shahed Reza unfurled the IOC flag, and Ashikur Rahman Miku raised the BOA standard high. The tricolour tableau stood tall against the Dhaka skyline.
In a final flourish, certificates were presented to Olympians—Bangladesh’s finest, who had once stood beneath five rings on the world stage. Each name called was a name woven into the nation’s sporting fabric, each certificate a tribute to resilience, to ambition, to legacy.
On this Olympic Day, Bangladesh didn’t just march. It moved—with purpose, with pride, with the promise that its Olympic journey is far from over.