1st OCA Coordination Committee Meeting, Muscat 2010 22-01-2008

Following the assessment in Bali and Hanoi, OCA members have arrived in the Oman capital city of Muscat earlier to meet with the Oman Olympic Committee at the1st OCA Coordination Committee Meeting for the 2nd Asian Beach Games.  Participants include OCA Executive Board members and staff, and representatives from MAIGOC, Oman Olympic Committee and the related government departments.

Vice Chairman of the Oman Olympic Committee, Chairman of the Preparatory Committee for the 2nd Asian Beach Games – Muscat 2010 Engineer Habib Macki introduced the work progress and research of the related areas of OCA in the past months.  Aside from members of the Oman Olympic Committee, the Ministry of Information, Ministry of Sports Affairs, Ministry of Tourism and Culture, Police Force and Customs of the Oman government have also participated in the Coordination meeting.

Representing OCA President Sheikh Ahmad Al-Fahad Al-Sabah, OCA Acting Coordination Committee Chairman and Media Committee Chairman Manuel Silvério has emphasized that the Organising Committee should continuously promote and educate within the country this new and exciting multisport event.  “OCA will continue to support and guide the Organising Committee in its work, and together we shall build the brand and image of the OCA,” remarked Manuel Silvério.

At the meeting OCA experts including Manuel Silvério, OCA Sports Committee Chairman Wei Jizhong, Medical Committee Chairman Dr. Jegathesan, Sports for All Committee Chairman Gen. Souhail Khoury, Finance Committee member Seyed Sajjadi, Women’s Committee member Isabel da Silva, and OCA Asian Games Manager Haider Farman assessed the work of the Olympic Committee when presented its Sports Programme, Competition Venues, Accommodation, Transportation, Medical and Anti-doping controls, TV Broadcasting and Media Services, Games IT Solution, Cultural Programme, Volunteers Programme, and Airport and Customs Handling.  During the meeting, Manuel Silverio has also presented the Official Report and DVD of the Macau 2007, 2nd Asian Indoor Games to the Vice Chairman of the Oman Olympic Committee Eng. Habib Macki.

To prepare for the 2nd Asian Beach Games to be held in the end of 2010 in Muscat, Oman’s government will build a brand new sports village in the city of Musanaa.  The village will be host to six competing sports, athletes’ village, Main Press Centre and the International Broadcasting Centre.  The present plan of 11 sports in the sport programme including Beach Handball, Beach Football, Beach Volleyball, Body Building, Jetski, Marathon Swimming, Sailing, Triathlon, Woodball, Beach Sepaktakraw and Beach Kabaddi will be held in six different venues.

OCA Sports Committee Chairman Wei Jizhong commented, “The present sport programme is acceptable, but considering there will be more sports in the first edition in Bali, the Organising Committee should keep the door open for additional events suggested by the OCA or its 45 member NOCs.”

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1) Participants of the 1st OCA Coordination Committee Meeting for the 2nd Asian Beach Games

2) Manuel Silverio presented the Macau 2007, 2nd Asian Indoor Games Official Report and DVD to the Vice Chairman of the Oman Olympic Committee Eng. Habib Macki.