KUWAIT: Since its established order six many years in the past, the Kuwait Olympic Committee (KOC) has performed a key function in growing native sports activities and has introduced its services and products to the Olympic motion within the nation, based on the rules of the Olympic constitution. KOC, which is celebrating its sixty fifth anniversary, was once established on Sept 28, 1958 through 4 native unions. Since then, it has at all times remained prepared to beef up Kuwaiti athletes and their ambition to participate in Olympic competitions. The group has additionally adopted up on the newest global sports activities tendencies and has helped to arrange pioneer techniques and projects.
The KOC was once established after suggestions had been made through native sports activities our bodies, particularly the soccer, volleyball and handball unions, as they discovered a necessity for an umbrella sports activities establishment that monitored their affairs and actions particularly right through Olympic tournaments. Its first board of administrators was once headed through Jassem Al-Qittami, and the staff was once thinking about boosting and embellishing family members with global sports activities establishments and entities.
The nationwide committee, which joined the Global Olympic Committee (IOC) in 1966 and the Arab Federation for Sports activities in 1974, are founding participants of the Olympic Council of Asia (OCA), which was once established upon Kuwait’s advice in 1982 through its president on the time, the past due Sheikh Fahad Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah.
In the meantime, the KOC Chairman, Sheikh Fahad Nasser Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah, praised the jobs of the KOC heads and participants in growing the native sports activities situation. He credited their efforts to Kuwait’s participation in global sports activities occasions and championships in a foreign country. KOC is operating to unfold the values followed within the Olympic video games like aggressive spirit, recognize, resolution, bravery, team spirit, cohesion, equality, sustainability, in addition to neglecting all kinds of discrimination, he mentioned.
It additionally requires peace and ladies’s participation in sports activities and sheds mild on environmental problems, he added. KOC, which cooperates with governmental and non-governmental establishments, is all in favour of keeping up excellent ties with such establishments to highest serve Kuwaiti athletes, he added.
Al-Sabah additionally mentioned that KOC works to conquer stumbling blocks for Kuwaiti athletes of their competitions and inspire the Olympic spirit, whilst it does now not participate in any task contradicting with the Olympic constitution, which, he added, is thought of as as the root of the Olympic video games. He expressed his private thank you and gratitude to the rustic’s sensible political leaders for his or her consistent worry and deal with the younger era, which was once mirrored within the many victories that the rustic received through the years.
He additionally hailed the jobs of complete and specialised native sports activities unions and golf equipment for coaching children of quite a lot of ages and providing beef up for them all the time. The primary participation of the KOC within the global Olympic match was once in Tokyo, Japan, in 1964 with simplest administrative participants. Exact participation of Kuwaiti athletes in an Olympic championship got here later within the video games held in Mexico Town, 4 years later. – KUNA