The Sports Bureau’s (ID) event for participants to walk across the soon-to-open Macau Bridge this coming Sunday, September 29, will have 7,000 additional places available for individual participants to sign up in response to the event’s registration having been met with much enthusiasm.
The activity was initially to provide 10,000 places, comprising 5,000 places for those participating individually and 5,000 places for those joining the event in groups.
The online registration ran between 10 a.m. on Thursday last week and 9 p.m. on Saturday last week for those joining the event in groups. All 5,000 places were swiftly snapped up.
The registration for up to 5,000 individual walkers, which started at 10 a.m. on Sunday, was initially slated to run until 9 p.m. today, but the 5,000 places were taken before the deadline.
A statement by the bureau on Saturday said that since the registration started on Thursday last week, it had been met with a great deal of enthusiasm, because of which the bureau decided to provide 7,000 more places for individual participants to sign up.
The registration period for the additional 7,000 places will start at 10 a.m. today and is scheduled to end at 12 noon tomorrow.
Due to the new measure, the event will have up to 17,000 participants.
Only Macau residents are eligible to sign up for the six-kilometre walk, which is free of charge.
On the day of the walk on September 29, the organisers will start at 7 a.m. calling for groups’ participants to arrive at the walk’s starting location before their walk is scheduled to start at 8 a.m.
The organisers will start at 8:30 a.m. calling for the first 5,000 individual participants to arrive at the walk’s starting location before their walk is scheduled to start at 9 a.m.
Following the increase in walkers, the organisers will start at 9:30 a.m. calling for the additional 7,000 individual participants to arrive at the walk’s starting point before their walk is scheduled to start at 10 a.m.
This poster in Chinese released by the Sports Bureau (ID) on Saturday last week shows the location of the walk’s entrance outside the Taipa Ferry Terminal.
