Association des Comits Nationaux Olympiques dAfrique

Association of National Olympic Committees of Africa

ACNOA

ANOCA

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ANOCA ANd AASC reviSit COOperAtiON iN MAputO

NOCA President, Intendant General Lassana Palenfo, on 01 September 2011 held an important meeting with Presidents of national Sports Confederations of Africa, on the sidelines of the 14th ordinary session of the Association of National Olympic Committees of Africa in Maputo, Mozambique, on 03 and 04 September 2011. The meeting took place at the VIP Hotel, Maputo, and afforded participants the opportunity to size up the management of the African Olympic Movement and review the cooperation between ANOCA and the Association of African Sports Confederations (AASC) in the build up to next years London Olympic Games. The meeting centred on three cardinal issues.

First and foremost, participants discussed how to help organise qualifiers for London 2012 in sports disciplines that were not on schedule at the all Africa Games in Maputo, namely rowing, weightlifting, fencing, shooting, hockey, archery, wrestling and equestrian. In this regard, the President of ANOCA underscored the need for African athletes to be fully prepared for this planetary event, and promised the African sporting movements support to help the concerned confederations to organise these qualifiers as soon as possible. Discussions moved thereafter to preparations for the 2nd edition of the African Youth games billed for Botswana, while the organisation of the maiden ANOCA Games constituted the 3rd item on the agenda. Here, Intendant General Lassana Palenfo observed that it would be better to choose the host of this event well in advance so that the host country can have sufficient time to prepare. Satisfied with this initiative taken by the ANOCA president to create a forum for dialogue, the presidents of African Sports Confederations expressed their willingness to work with the supreme governing body of the African Olympic Movement to foster sport on the continent. According to most presidents, the meeting was an ideal forum for the development of the African sporting and Olympic Movement and afforded them the opportunity to adopt a common vision for the utter fulfilment of Africas youth. According to Intendant General Lassana Palenfo, this meeting opens up prospects for broad-based dialogue, a forum for direct consultation, exchange and contact with administrators of continental sports confederations without any middlemen between ANOCA and the AASC. The African Sporting and Olympic Movement believes in the principle that unity is strength, and such strength will enable us work with a cool head to promote sport and Olympism on the Continent. The meeting was followed on 12 September 2011 by the AASC General Assembly during which Egypts Ahmed Fouli, President of the Confederation of African Taekwondo, was elected to the helm of the association.

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