# Sport Relief confirmed for 10 July 2004

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2003/08/27/sport-relief-confirmed-10-july-2004/
- Published: 2003-08-27T23:00:00+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

Comic Relief and BBC Sport have confirmed that Sport Relief 2004 will take place
on the weekend of 10-11 July 2004. 
The theme for Sport Relief 2004 has been inspired
by the 50th anniversary of Roger Bannister’s sub 4-minute mile: it will be

organising a series of mile-themed events across the UK suitable for everyone to
take part.

Kevin Cahill, Chief Executive, Comic Relief, said: “Following the success of

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the inaugural Sport Relief we just had to hold this event again. The response from
the UK public was astonishing. Sports enthusiasts at all levels from professional,
local, regional and national sporting events took part. Every conceivable sport 
was played from bog snorkelling to football in

an attempt to raise funds for children and young people leading unimaginably tough
lives, here in the UK and across the world.”

The first Sport Relief in 2002 raised over £14 million.

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