The Tokyo Olympics are taking place without spectators, but the athletes around the world are cheering in front of the screens. Not only this event, many other things had to be postponed to this year last year. The tenth Vojvodina Peasant Olympiad will also be held this year and the previous winners will be invited to compete against each other at the Topolya market square.
During the epidemic situation, the Gasdakör of Topolya was also forced to reduce its usual activities. The regular meetings and various specialist lectures were also canceled or took place online. The organization of mass events could not be solved either, there was no peasant Olympics last year and the traditional pig ring was also missed . Recently, they have been active again, holding monthly meetings and organizing the traditional bread consecration and the peasant Olympics.
Tomik Nimród , the vice-president of the Topolyai Farmers' Circle, said that they are holding meetings again, and the Vojvodina Peasant Olympics are already being organized. In the last three months, they have been able to organize their traditional gatherings in the home on the market square. In such cases, farmers exchange experiences, specialists also give lectures, but buyers, distributors of seeds and other reproduction materials are also regularly invited.
Tomik reminded him that last year they could not organize the Vojvodina Peasant Olympics due to the epidemic, so the jubilee tenth will be held this year. This year, it would be held in the traditional form on August 22, but this year - as they are also celebrating an anniversary - the "league of champions" would be organized, to which the previous winners, the champions of the peasant Olympics, would be invited. Of course, on this day, the bread consecration will take place in the morning hours in the Sarlós Bolgodasszony Catholic Church, and the Peasant Olympiad will take place with the usual accompanying events, such as the cooking competition and music programs, afternoon and evening concerts.
(Text and title image: Vojvodina today)
