Official Newsletter of the Olympic Council of Asia Edition 20 - March 2013 YOUTH OPPORTUNITIES OCA builds for a bright future OCA Youth Camp 2013 - Taekwondo OCA Youth Reporter Project 2nd Asian Youth Games update Contents Inside your 32-page Sporting Asia 8 3 OCA President’s Message OCA President’s No. 2 ranking Sporting Asia is the official newsletter of the Olympic 4 - 9 News Digest Council of Asia, published quarterly. 4 Lausanne Latest 5 IOC Trophy 2012 Executive Editor / Director General Husain Al-Musallam 6 Tokyo 2020 delivers Olympic bid file
[email protected] 7 NOCs’ Exchange and Cooperation Art Director / IT Manager Amer Elalami 15 8 Sports Federations round-up
[email protected] 9 IOC President visits Asia Director, Int’l & NOC Relations Vinod Tiwari 10 - 11 Inside the OCA
[email protected] 10 OCA International Relations Committee, Asia in Director, Asian Games Department WADA, OS/OCA Forums Haider A. Farman
[email protected] 11 OCA Youth Camp, OCA Fun Run + Learn, Honour for OCA EB member Charles Lo Editor Jeremy Walker 16 12 - 13 NOC Elections around Asia
[email protected] 14 - 19 Chefs de Mission Seminar for 2md Executive Secretary Asian Youth Games, Nanjing 2013 Nayaf Sraj
[email protected] 14 Importance of AYG to OCA Media Manager 15 Wei Jizhong – Asia’s Master Chef (de Mission) Jian Zhou
[email protected] 16 - 17 Postcards from Nanjing - Photo Special Graphic Designer 18 Nanjing Notice Board Abdul Muneem Khan 22
[email protected] 19 OCA + AYG = CEP Olympic Council of Asia 20 - 22 Chefs de Mission Seminar for 4th PO Box 6706, Hawalli AIMAG, Incheon 2013 Zip Code 32042 Kuwait 20 New era for OCA Telephone: +965 25717196 Fax: +965 25734973 Home from home for athletes Email:
[email protected] 21 Website: www.ocasia.org 22 Delegates visit Incheon sports and leisure fair 23 Games Update: 17th Asian Games, 26 Incheon 2014 24 Women and Sport: Awards, Seminars Front cover: 25 - 30 Six pages of News and Sport from 45 NOCs Taekwondo will be the focus 31 Obituary of the OCA’s Asian Youth Camp in 2013.