How many sports have you played in the past week? One, two, three, 10?

This Saturday (23), anyone who goes to the Miécimo da Silva sporting centre at the Campo Grande Olympic Village will have the chance to try out more than 20 sports, among them well-known ones like football, volleyball and basketball, novelties like badminton and archery, and even unfamiliar Paralympic ones like goalball. The second edition of the sporting festival Transforma will take place between 8h and 13h, with entry free for the public of all ages.

With instruction from professional athletes, the event will also feature the Olympic mascots, Vinicius and Tom as well as demonstrations of aquatic sports, such as synchronised swimming, diving, rowing and sailing, as well as raffle giveaways.

In November 2014, the first edition of the Transforma sporting festival brought together 500 people to the Oscar Schmidt Olympic Village in Santa Cruz, also in the West Zone of Rio de Janeiro. A beach volleyball player, Emanuel Rego, who won gold in Athens 2004, silver in London 2012 and bronze in Beijing 2008, attended the event.

The festival is part of Transforma, an educational programme which brings the Rio 2016 Games inside the class room. The programme works in tandem with public schools and particularly junior and secondary schools creating the opportunities for students to experience Olympic and Paralympic values.