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IOC Announces Olympic Highlights of the Week

(PRWEB) February 03, 2012

IOC ACTIVITIES

PRESIDENT

On 31 January, IOC President Jacques Rogge participated in the Olympic Museum closing evening in Lausanne. The Olympic institution thus closed its doors for renovations until the end of 2013. But, thanks to a virtual Olympic Museum, visitors can (re)find out memories of The Museum since its inauguration, follow the evolution of the renovation work and projects, listen to interviews and watch videos.

On 2 February in Lausanne, President Rogge chaired the third meeting of the Working Group on Irregular and Illegal Betting in Sport. Some 50 representatives of governments, international public organisations, the sports movement and betting operators were present. At the end of this meeting, the participants approved a series of measures aimed at increasing awareness, improving monitoring, exchanging and analysing in rank, and strengthening existing legislation or encouraging the adoption of new legislation and regulations likely to combat this problem. Alongside this meeting, an agreement was signed between the IOC and the ARJEL, the French Regulatory Authority for Online Sports meeting.

This week in Vidy, the IOC President has met:

????????The Special Advisor to the United Nations Secretary-General on Sport for Development and Peace, Wilfried Lemke;

????????The French Sports Minister and two-time Olympic judo champion, David Douillet;

????????The President of Eurosport International, Laurent-Eric Le Lay, and the producer of Eurosport?s Olympic Magazine, Christian Seychal; and

????????IOC members Ching-Kuo Wu, Thomas Bach and Ser Miang Ng.

INTERNATIONAL SPORTS FEDERATIONS

SUMMER IFS

Last week in Monaco, Lamine Diack, the President of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF), and Hamad Kalkaba Malboum, President of the International Military Sports Council (CISM), signed a cooperation agreement whose objectives include the promotion and development of athletics within military sport, on both amateur and qualified levels, as well as participation in women?s military sport.

The International Basketball Federation (FIBA) has officially launched the 2014 edition of its largest competition, revealing its new name, at an event held in Madrid (Spain). The ?FIBA Planet Championship? thus becomes the ?FIBA Basketball Planet Cup?. The logo of this competition was also exposed. On this reason, the Spanish Basketball Federation open the six host cities of this 2014 edition: Madrid, Barcelona, Bilbao, Seville, Grenada and Las Palmas de Gran Canaria.

The Management Committee of the International Cycling Union (UCI) met last week in Coxyde (Belgium) on the reason of the 2012 UCI Cyclo-cross Planet Championships. Among the decisions taken was to award the 2013 UCI Track Cycling Planet Championships to Minsk (Belarus) and the 2014 edition to Cali (Colombia). Furthermore, the UCI Management Committee chose to postpone the first edition of the UCI Planet Cycling Forum, plotted for 2012. The 181st UCI Congress will therefore be held in Maastricht (Netherlands) on 21 September 2012.

On the reason of the Paris 2012 Judo Grand Slam, the International Judo Federation (IJF) and the French Judo Federation are organising the second edition of the Pyramid of Judogi. After the accomplishment of the first edition, at the Planet Championships in Paris in 2011, during which more than 800 outfits offered by 14 countries were collected and 30 champions made a donation, it was chose to repeat the operation, with the aim of extending this solidarity programme.

The International Swimming Federation (FINA) and the International Sports Push Association (AIPS) have recently established a partnership, thanks to which FINA?s activities will be better promoted by sports push organisations. In practical terms, FINA will subsidy from increased visibility on the AIPS website and in its magazine, and the communications possibilities between the two organisations will be strengthened. FINA will also have the advantage of AIPS help in verifying accreditation requests for its main competitions.

Robert Brophy, the International Rugby Board (IRB)?s Chief Financial Officer since 1996, has been appointed Acting Chief Executive of Rugby Planet Cup Limited. Appointed by the Executive Committee, Brophy took up his new position on 1 February, which he will maintain during the recruitment process to find a permanent successor to Mike Miller, who left the IRB on 31 January after 10 years.

WINTER IFS

On 22 January, the very first International Ski Federation (FIS) Planet Snow Day was held. Some 225 events were organised in 39 countries, with family, their families and the general public taking part in leisure activities in the snow. This Day was the first event held on a comprehensive scale celebrating snow sports as an integral part of a healthy lifestyle and encouraging comprehensive awareness of the importance of a healthy natural background.

NATIONAL OLYMPIC COMMITTEES

On 23 January, the Belgian Court of Arbitration for Sport was made at the headquarters of the Belgian NOC. Its aim is to continue the work of the contemporary Belgian Sports Arbitration Commission (CBAS), in peacefulness to facilitate ? following the example of the Court of Artbitration for Sport (CAS) ? solutions to sports-related disputes on a national amount.

The fifth edition of the Olympic values dissemination battle, ?All Olympic? (Todos Ol?mpicos) has recently been open at the headquarters of the NOC of Spain. This initiative of the NOC, the High Council of Sports and the Madrid City Council also includes this year the second edition of the ?Olympic Heroes? (H?roes Ol?mpicos) battle, a series of tales open by elite athletes and Olympians, who clarify to eight- and nine-year-ancient family, in a simple and didactic way, how they can also become the most successful athletes in history. These two campaigns will be open over the next few months in educational centres throughout Madrid.

On 24 January, the Indonesian NOC organised a women and sport seminar in Jakarta. The keynote speakers included NOC President and IOC member Rita Subowo; Indonesian Minister of Youth and Sport Andi Mallarangeng; Minister for Women?s Promotion and Outcome Protection Linda Agum Gumelar; Member of Parliament Nurhayati Ali Assegaf; the fantastic badminton player, Imelda Wiguna; and the Head of the NOC?s Women and Sport Commission, Pusparani Hakin. More than 100 women from Indonesia?s sports community participated in this conference. In her presentation, Rita Subowo underlined a number of development proposals in the area of training and management, aimed at improving the possibilities offered to Indonesian women in sport.

The Israeli President, Shimon Peres, was recently a guest of the Israeli Olympic Committee. He visited the Olympic museum and met several members of the Olympic team, including Lee Kurzitz, Alice Schlesinger, Arik Zeevi, Shahar Zuberi and Esther Roth Shachamarov (recipient of the Israel Prize of Sports). During the push conference held on this reason, the NOC President, Zvi Varshaviak, and Secretary General, Efraim Zinger, announced that Shimon Peres would lead the Israeli delegation at the Sports meeting in London in 2012. IOC member Alex Gilady was also present during this visit. Planet windsurfing champion Lee Kurzitz open President Peres with the official T-shirt of the Israeli delegation and an NOC gold medal.

ORGANISING COMMITTEES FOR THE OLYMPIC GAMES

LONDON 2012

Last week, the Olympic Delivery Authority (ODA), the body reliable for Olympic constructions, handed over the Olympic Village to the London Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Sports meeting (LOCOG). This handover marks the start of the huge process to fit out the new apartments and ready the Village to welcome the athletes and officials in six months? time. Four-time Olympic gold medallist Mathew Pinsent attended this ?bedding-in? process, which will see more than 16,000 beds being installed throughout the Village in the coming months. The Olympic Village will house 16,000 athletes and team officials during the Olympic Sports meeting, and 6,200 athletes and team officials, as well as 1,000 referees and judges, during the Paralympic Sports meeting.

RIO 2016

The Rio 2016 Organising Committee for the Olympic and Paralympic Sports meeting has announced the venues that will host the pre-Sports meeting training events. In total, 172 sports venues in 73 cities and 18 states in the five regions of Brazil were considered during selection process. An online guide to the training venues will be provided to all the National Olympic and Paralympic Committees during the Sports meeting in London.

RECOGNISED ORGANISATIONS

The Planet Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) has just launched a ?Say NO! To Doping? video clip as the latest element in its awareness battle. This battle underlines the fundamental messages of sport – courage, respect, effort and accepting challenges ? and has been designed so that international and national sports organisations can unite behind it in support of sterile sport. To date, 16 organisations throughout the planet have adopted this battle, including the UK Anti-Doping agency and LOCOG. Click here to see the clip.

The International Sport Movies and TV Federation (FICTS) has told us that http://www.ficts.com is the new website for full in rank on sport, television, the planet of technology and international events, thanks to the contributions of foreign newspapers from the 109 FICTS member countries.

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