Play the Game Opens
The 2009 Play the Game Conference, meant to discuss what organizers call the "homeless questions" in sport, opened today, with the largest schedule yet of speakers.
The annual conference is taking place in Coventry, England until June 12. This year's major theme is "Visions for sport in times of financial crisis," and more than 120 speakers will discuss this topic with 300 delegates.
"The challenges to modern sport won't go away just by ignoring them," Director of Play the Game, Jens Sejer Andersen, warned in his opening speech as he called for the world sports leaders "to come forward and add their facts and viewpoints to the open debate about what is true and what is good in sport."
Some of the challenges plaguing sport Andersen said were doping and corruption.
In his opening speech, Andersen called for a worldwide anti-corruption organization, similar to the World Anti Doping Agency.
"Over the past almost 40 years of sport and media globalization, the money, the national pride, the political prestige and the personal career opportunities have grown to such magnitude that those involved in sport have too much to lose to risk telling the truth," Andersen said.
Media Watch
Ahead of the national boxing championships, USA Today profiles USA Boxing's turnaround from the Beijing Games, where the U.S. earned only one medal, a bronze.
http://www.usatoday.com/sports/boxing/2009-06-08-usa-boxing_N.htm
Wolfgang Baumann Joins IOC Commission
The IOC Sport for All Commission has a new member--Wolfgang Baumann, Secretary General of International Sport for All Association (TAFISA).
Baumann was appointed by IOC PresidentWolfgang Baumann was appointed to the IOC's Sport for All Commission. (ASFA)Jaques Rogge.
In a press release, TAFISA said "this is not only an outstanding personal achievement, but a reflection on the relevant and important work TAFISA is undertaking, and its future potential.
The Commission, along with several other commissions, will meet next week in Lausanne, after the 2016 bid cities present to the IOC Executive Board.
TAFISA believes access to sport is a basic human right, and works to promote access to sport throughout the world.
AIBA Funding Travel to World Championships
The International Boxing Association (AIBA) announced it will provide funding for training and travel to the Boxing World Championships in Milan, later this year.
One hundred boxers from 77 "less-privileged countries" will be selected to train at the Italian National Boxing Training Centre in Assisi, Italy from August 10-26. Monies for the program come from the AIBA Grant Fund.
"One of my missions as AIBA President is to raise the quality of boxing tournaments regardless of the economic or political situation in the respective country," AIBA President C.K. Wu said. "This initiative is a significant step towards realizing this goal and I am very pleased to be contributing towards the betterment of boxing all round.
"It is unfortunate that we cannot cover all the federations within the AIBA family however, I know I can count on the full support and understanding of the countries which are not including in this very exciting project for AIBA
and international boxing."
Written by Ed Hula III.
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