OCA Coordination Committee meeting for Bali Beach Games

Following the assessment in Bali and Hanoi, OCA members arrived in the Oman capital city of Muscat to meet with the Oman Olympic Committee at the 1st 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.

Representing OCA President Sheihk Ahmad Al-Fahad Al-Sabah, OCA Coordination Committee Chairman and Media Committee Chairman Manuel Silvério 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.
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 said that “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.”

During his visit to Oman, Manuel Silvério and the delegation from MAIGOC also visited the Ambassador Extraordinary & Plenipotentiary of the People’s Republic of China to the Sultanate of Oman Pan Weifang. Manuel Silvério introduced the hosting of the 2nd Asian Indoor Games in Macao last year, and also the preparatory work between the Oman Olympic Committee and the OCA for the 2nd Asian Beach Games.
He also said that with the support from the Central Government and the Chinese Olympic Committee, Macao will be the last overseas city for the Beijing Olympic Torch Relay. Pan Weifang explained that Beijing has selected Oman as a representation of the Middle East for the Torch Relay due to the fact that China and Oman has very good political and historic relations, which dates back thousand of years. In addition, it is a traditional country which embraces other cultures. He believes that the Muscat 2010, 2nd Asian Beach Games will further motivate development for local tourism and the tertiary industry in accordance to the country’s policy.