Unusual Interest in CACSO Videoconference

(ATR) More than 2,000 people from some 50 countries registered for the First Seminar on Sports Administration sponsored by the Central American and Caribbean Sports Organization (CACSO), say the organizers.

The event was the most recent of CACSO's digital initiatives in the face of the social distancing imposed by the global pandemic that also for example forced the International Olympic Committee to hold its last Session by videoconference for the first time.

The Sports Administration Seminar, which was held between the conferences of its Olympic Cycle Events and New Venues program, ends this Friday. One day later CACSO will hold its virtual General Assembly to discuss the future of the Central American and Caribbean Games in 2022 after the unexpected withdrawal of Panama as host.

"I am pleasantly surprised with the acceptance that the Seminar has had," CACSO president and IOC member from the Dominican Republic Luis Mejía Oviedo told Around the Rings.

On the first day, Keith Joseph (Saint Vincent and the Grenadines) spoke about the structure of the Olympic Movement, Lorena Ochoa (Colombia) spoke about Management and Environment of the Olympic Sports Organizations, and her compatriot Fabio Ramírez about the basic principles of the Organization of Sports Events.

Eleven lecturers were invited to speak on various topics, presentations that were produced for the first time amid the possibility that many of the traditional concepts in various spheres could change due to the health and financial crisis.

The pandemic has put this phrase on everyone's lips: the world will never be as before.

And neither will sport.

Reported by Miguel Hernandez

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