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Official Newsletter of the Olympic Council of Asia
Edition 27 - December 2014
Gam Sa Ham Mee Da!
(Asia says ‘thank you’ to Incheon 2014)
Asian Games Special Edition
OCA Youth Reporter Project
OCA General Assembly
Contents
Inside your 32-page Sporting Asia
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06
OCA President’s Message
Academic award for OCA President
4 – 5
33rd OCA General Assembly
6
Inside the OCA
7 – 26
17th Asian Games Incheon 2014
12
8 – 9
Overview, Facts and Figures
10-11
Gold Galore
12 World Records
13
14-15
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27-31
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14 – 15
Sporting Asia is the official
newsletter of the Olympic
Council of Asia, published
quarterly.
Executive Editor / Director General
Husain Al Musallam
husain@ocasia.org
Art Director / IT Director
Amer Elalami
amer@ocasia.org
Director, Int’l & NOC Relations
Vinod Tiwari
vinod@ocasia.org
Director, Asian Games Department
Haider A. Farman
haider@ocasia.org
Editor
Jeremy Walker
jeremy@ocasia.org
Vision 2014
DPRK-Pop in ROK
16 – 17 Out and about with the OCA President
18 Samsung MVP
19 Asian Kids’ Art Competition
Executive Secretary
Nayaf Sraj
nayaf@ocasia.org
Olympic Council of Asia
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20 – 21 Highlights from opening
and closing ceremony
22 – 25
OCA Youth Reporter Project
26
Asian Games Scrapbook
27 – 31 News and Sport from 45 NOCs
32 OCA Sports Diary, Sponsors’ Club
Front cover:
The OCA President delights the crowd
at the closing ceremony
President’s Message
Incheon 2014 continues Asian Games success story
T
here are many reasons to celebrate the success of the 17th Asian Games in Incheon,
Korea.
The fact that all 45 National Olympic Committees took part, with over 9,000 athletes, is an
achievement in itself.
We were particularly pleased to welcome DPR Korea, whose entry was confirmed quite late
in the day but whose participation attracted massive media interest and added value to the
Asian Games.
From the moment their athletes began arriving at Incheon International Airport on a direct flight
from Pyongyang on September 11 to the presence of two high-ranking government officials at
the closing ceremony on October 4, the participation of the DPRK proved once again the power
of sport to unite people and overcome differences in religion, politics and culture.
I would like to take this opportunity to thank everyone involved in making this happen. It was a great team effort and a message to
the world that peace, harmony and understanding can conquer conflict, suspicion and mistrust.
This is the social legacy of the Asian Games. On a technical level we witnessed a host of Asian Games records, Asian records and
World records in a variety of sports, highlighting the ever-improving standards of our athletes.
At this point - in the mid-term of the Olympic cycle - I urge all NOCs to make the most of the funding and programmes available
through Olympic Solidarity so that Asia’s elite athletes will be ready to step up to the next level at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio
de Janeiro.
Thank you Incheon, Korea and Asia for a successful and positive 17th Asian Games, Incheon 2014!
Sheikh Ahmad Al Fahad Al Sabah
President, Olympic Council of Asia
President, Association of National Olympic Committees
Chairman, IOC Olympic Solidarity Commission
OCA President receives top award from Sports University
T
he President of the OCA, HE Sheikh Ahmad Al Fahad
Al Sabah, received an honorary doctorate in Physical
Education from Korea National Sport University in Seoul on
Monday, September 22.
The award of the highest academic degree was to honour Sheikh
Ahmad’s contribution to the sports movement and the youth in
Asia and for his assistance in the development of sport in Korea.
“Sport is one of the main parts of our life, and I will always
prepare the best conditions for our youth and for our athletes,”
he said in his acceptance speech.
“I will always be supportive of hosting international events to keep
the solidarity and the unity, and friendship and brotherhood, of
the sports movement and the youth.”
Sheikh Ahmad praised the Korea National Sport University for
building an environment in education to produce top-class
athletes, and thanked the academics, staff and students for the
award.
Sheikh Ahmad receives his award.
The ceremony took place at the Convention Centre of the
Sheraton Walkerhill.
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33rd OCA General Assembly
The host city contract signing ceremony for Jakarta 2018.
Jakarta to host 18th Asian Games
T
he Asian Games will be returning to Indonesia in 2018 – a
break of 56 years since the capital Jakarta last hosted the
OCA’s showpiece event in 1962.
Jakarta was confirmed as the host city for the 18thAsiad at the 33rd
OCA General Assembly in Incheon, Korea, on Saturday, September
20, when the official contract-signing ceremony took place.
“We are very proud to be hosting the next Asian Games in our
capital city Jakarta,” said IOC member Rita Subowo, President
of the Indonesian Olympic Committee and OCA Executive
Board member.
With 36 sports on the provisional programme,
Indonesia plans to use around 20 competitions
venues, including a landmark stadium under
construction in the north of Jakarta.
Most of the venues already exist and will
be refurbished or upgraded for the Asian
Games, while Indonesia also plans to hold
sports inside exhibition and convention
centres, similar to the ExCeL Arena at the London 2012
Olympics.
“We hosted the 4th Asian Games in 1962 and a lot has changed
since then, but we are sure we will have enough time to prepare
all the technical requirements of the OCA. There is a lot of hard
work ahead, starting yesterday.”
The 18th Asian Games were due to take place in Hanoi in 2019,
but the Vietnamese capital withdrew this April due to economic
factors. Indonesia, whose second largest city, Surabaya, had
missed out to Hanoi in the 2012 General Assembly vote, came
back with another bid, but this time for the capital Jakarta.
Jakarta will be assisted by Palembang, capital of South Sumatra
and host city of the 2011 South East Asian (SEA) Games, and by
Bandung, capital of West Java and Indonesia’s third largest city.
Despite interest from other NOCs, the OCA felt that Indonesia
deserved the chance to host the next Asiad – but in 2018, due
to the country’s presidential elections in 2019.
The colours and culture of Indonesia.
Dazzling Indonesia.
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33rd OCA General Assembly
IOC President welcomes Asia’s Olympic Decade
T
he 33rd OCA General Assembly at Songdo Convensia,
Incheon, Korea, on Saturday, September 20 included a
keynote speech by the IOC President, Thomas Bach.
The German sports leader praised the “great leadership” of
the OCA President, and said that the Olympic Movement was
entering an Asian Decade.
“We have had an excellent Youth Olympic Games in Nanjing,
China, last month,” he said.
“In 2018 we will be back in Korea for the Olympic Winter
Games in PyeongChang, and two years later we go to Tokyo
for the Summer Olympics in 2020. Asia also has two strong
candidates for the 2022 Winter Olympics – Beijing, China, and
Almaty, Kazakhstan.
“We have entered the ‘Decade of Asia’, and all this shows the
growth and dynamism of sport in Asia, initiated and governed
by the OCA.
“This is the result of very hard work over many years. You have
worked with great determination and consistency to reach new
heights for sport in Asia, and the IOC is very grateful for this
great success. The cooperation between the OCA and IOC has
never been closer or better than now.”
The Sheikh Fahad Hiroshima-Asia Sports Fund Science Award was
presented to the Qatar Sport Medicine Committee and Dr Lotfali
Pourkazemi, President of the Sports Medicine Federation of Iran.
The General Assembly heard presentations and reports from
the Court of Arbitration
for Sport, ANOC, Olympic Solidarity and the
organisers of the next
two Olympic Games – Rio
2016 and PyeongChang
2018.
IOC President Thomas Bach.
In the afternoon session, the delegates were updated
on the next cycle of OCA events: the 4th Asian Beach Games,
Phuket 2014; the 5th Asian Beach Games, NhaTrang-Vietnam
2016; and the 8th Asian Winter Games (Sapporo, Japan), 5th
Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games (Ashgabat, Turkmenistan)
and 3rd Asian Youth Games (Colombo and Hambantota, Sri
Lanka), all in 2017.
The reports from the five OCA zones and standing
committees included news of the second Asian Athletes’ Forum
- to be held in Kuwait in January 2015 - organised by the OCA
Athletes’ Committee headed by Japan’s Yuko Arakida.
The 34th OCA General Assembly will be hosted by
Turkmenistan NOC in the capital Ashgabat in September 2015.
The Qatar Olympic Committee and OCA signed a contract for the
Olympic Academy in Doha.
The six recipients of the
OCA Merit Award were:
Kim Young Soo, President, IAGOC; Khaled Al
Hamad, Kuwait; Yousef
Shaheen Alghanim, Kuwait; Park Yong Sung,
OCA Vice President; Khin
Maung Lwin, Joint Secretary General, Myanmar
Olympic Committee; Mirabror Usmanov, President, Uzbekistan NOC.
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Inside the OCA
OCA Executive Board
T
he 65th OCA Executive Board meeting was held at the
Oakwood Premier Incheon on Friday, September 19 the day of the opening ceremony of the 17th Asian Games.
Looking ahead to the opening ceremony, the OCA President
said he was sure it would celebrate the “harmony, unity and
solidarity” of the continent.
“Enjoy your stay in Incheon and work hard for the success of
the Games,” he added. “Let us prepare a good environment
for the athletes. We are your partner. We are one team. We
will work hard together and we will help each other for the
success of the Games.”
OCA Finance Committee
T
he OCA Finance Committee met at the Oakwood
Premier Incheon on Thursday, September 18, under
the chairmanship of Kevin Kuo-I Chen of Chinese Taipei
and observed a minute’s silence for the late Dr Feng-Shu
Chang, the previous chairman who passed away on June
1 in Taipei.
The committee approved the audited financial statements
for OCA, Olympic Solidarity and the OCA-Incheon Vision
2014 programme for the year ended December 31, 2013,
and passed them to the Executive Board and General
Assembly for final ratification.
OCA Athletes’ Committee
OCA Education Committee
T
T
he OCA Athletes’ Committee met at the Oakwood
Premier Incheon on Thursday, September 18, chaired
by Yuko Arakida of Japan.
The previous chairman, Dr Rashid Al Heraiwel of Saudi
Arabia, passed away earlier this year.
The meeting welcomed two special guests – Claudia
Bokel of Germany, a member of the International Olympic
Committee Executive Board and Chair of the IOC Athletes’
Commission, and Barbara Kendall of New Zealand, IOC
member and Chair of the Athletes’ Commission of the
Association of National Olympic Committees (ANOC).
he OCA Education Committee met at the Oakwood
Premier Incheon on Thursday, September 18, for
the first time under its new chairman, Mr Mohammed H.
Almishal, Secretary General of the Saudi Arabian Olympic
Committee.
The main focus of the meeting was to formulate a mission
statement with a clear plan and timetable.
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Asian IOC members Yang Yang of China and Mikee
Cojuangco-Jaworski of the Philippines were also in
attendance as OCA Athletes’ Committee members.
Sporting Asia’s 20-page special on the 17th Asian Games Incheon 2014 starts here!
17th Asian Games Incheon 2014
Incheon Asian Games – the window on the wond
By Le Minh Trang, OCA Youth Reporter, Vietnam
W
ith the tagline “Imagine your Korea”, visitors to this
magnificent Asian country simply know no boundaries:
they are free to discover and perceive various aspects of South
Korea in their own way.
Whenever I glance at Korean people, they always flash a bright
smile right back to me. Their serene way of life, their carefree
manners and the cordial atmosphere constantly present around
them never failed to comfort me.
I chose to experience
Korea as an OCA Youth
Reporter
during
the
Incheon Asian Games
and, simultaneously, as a
traveller who always has
a compulsion to set foot
on every corner of the
world.
South Korea is, undeniably, a harmonious combination of
antiquity and modernity. In the heart of Seoul - the capital city
- lies the ancient palace Gyeongbokgung, rich in history and
elaborate in architecture. Not far from the past royal residence
is the new N Seoul Tower, which offers a panoramic and breathtaking view of the city. The past blends in perfectly with the
present.
My trip lasted for eight
days. Although it was
a short period of time,
it still left me ample
unforgettable memories.
When I first arrived in Korea, what instantly took me by
surprise was how amiable and hospitable the Koreans were.
Throughout the week I came across lots of Koreans who were
always more than willing to help me: a married couple offered
to take me to famous tourist attractions; a middle-aged man
on the subway train gave up his seat to me; the mother of a
Korean OCA Youth Reporter instructed me how to use the
subway and drove me to the best local shopping malls.
Workmen decorate the Oakwood Premier Incheon at
Songdo - OCA HQ for the Incheon Asian Games.
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On the other hand, Incheon is a dynamic, ever-changing new
city. Incheon is highly advanced, with the commuting system
for the disabled running
uninterruptedly, and the hectic
yet
well-organised
main
international airport.
My most memorable experience was unquestionably the
Youth Reporter Project. Not
only did the project grant me
opportunities to watch the
games live from the best angle
in the stadium, it also taught
me about the latent aspects
of journalism I never under-
The Team Welcome Ceremony for Japan at Flag Plaza.
17th Asian Games Incheon 2014
derful world of Korea
stood before. I got to familiarise myself with the
Mixed Zone, where media
interview athletes immediately after competition, the
Press Conference with an
English interpreter, where
all international reporters
can raise questions, and
myriad other journalistic
procedures.
From my experience, I
gathered that it takes a
lot of conscientiousness to
be a good journalist. Paying attention to details and doing
research in advance is one thing, but putting passion into
every article is another thing, as sometimes fatigue takes
over enthusiasm. Learning how to tactfully word the smartest
questions as well as how to politely approach interviewees
benefited me abundant improvement in social skills and
critical thinking. By virtue of the brilliant project, I was also
able to make new friends who will remain friends for ever.
South Korea in general and the OCA Youth Reporter Project in
particular was a unique experience that I felt endlessly fortunate
to be a part of. The trip left me with lasting impressions, which
will always be gleeful and remarkable when I look back on
my eight marvellous days at the Incheon Asian Games 2014.
Victory Ceremony attendants at the 17th Asian Games.
Incheon 2014
Facts and Figures
Opening Ceremony:
Closing Ceremony:
Opened by:
Closed by:
Slogan:
Sports:
Events:
NOCS:
Athletes:
Male:
Female:
Media:
Broadcasting:
Press/Photographers:
Ticket Sales:
Ticket Revenue:
Accumulative TV viewership:
Transport:
September 19
October 4
Park Geun-Hye, President,
Republic of Korea
Sheikh Ahmad Al Fahad Al
Sabah, President, OCA
Diversity Shines Here
36
439
45
9,501
5,823
3,678
9,700
6,500
3,200
1.25 million
US$27 million
1.3 billion
2,048 vehicles, comprised
of 902 limousines, 363
mini-buses and 783 buses
*Figures provided by Incheon Asian Games Organising Committee
The eye-catching Main Press Centre - home to over 3,000 reporters
and photographers
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17th Asian Games Incheon 2014
Final Medals Table – Incheon 2014
Men
Women Mixed
Total
Rank NOC
Total
Total
Total
Total
Rank by Total
1
CHN
67
44
39
150
83
62
41
186
1
2
3
6
151
108
83
342
1
2
KOR
38
40
52
130
35
28
29
92
6
3
3
12
79
71
84
234
2
3
JPN
33
40
41
114
13
33
31
77
1
3
5
9
47
76
77
200
3
4
KAZ
19
12
16
47
9
11
17
37
0
0
0
0
28
23
33
84
4
5
IRI
19
11
11
41
2
7
7
16
0
0
0
0
21
18
18
57
5
6
THA
4
3
11
18
8
3
17
28
0
1
0
1
12
7
28
47
8
7
PRK
4
7
2
13
6
4
12
22
1
0
0
1
11
11
14
36
11
8
IND
6
6
17
29
4
4
19
27
1
0
0
1
11
10
36
57
5
9
TPE
2
8
11
21
8
9
11
28
0
1
1
2
10
18
23
51
7
10
QAT
9
0
3
12
0
0
1
1
1
0
0
1
10
0
4
14
19
11
UZB
6
11
17
34
3
3
4
10
0
0
0
0
9
14
21
44
9
12
BRN
3
4
3
10
6
2
1
9
0
0
0
0
9
6
4
19
17
13
HKG
3
7
10
20
3
4
12
19
0
1
2
3
6
12
24
42
10
14
MAS
2
7
9
18
3
7
5
15
0
0
0
0
5
14
14
33
13
15
SIN
1
2
8
11
3
4
5
12
1
0
0
1
5
6
13
24
14
16
MGL
3
3
5
11
2
1
7
10
0
0
0
0
5
4
12
21
15
17
INA
1
2
4
7
3
2
4
9
0
1
3
4
4
5
11
20
16
18
KUW
3
5
3
11
0
0
1
1
0
0
0
0
3
5
4
12
20
19
KSA
2
2
1
5
0
0
0
0
1
1
0
2
3
3
1
7
21
20
MYA
1
0
1
2
1
1
0
2
0
0
0
0
2
1
1
4
27
21
VIE
0
3
12
15
1
7
13
21
0
0
0
0
1
10
25
36
11
22
PHI
1
3
7
11
0
0
4
4
0
0
0
0
1
3
11
15
18
23
PAK
0
1
3
4
1
0
0
1
0
0
0
0
1
1
3
5
25
23
TJK
1
1
2
4
0
0
1
1
0
0
0
0
1
1
3
5
25
25
IRQ
1
0
3
4
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
1
0
3
4
27
25
UAE
0
0
3
3
1
0
0
1
0
0
0
0
1
0
3
4
27
27
SRI
1
0
0
1
0
0
1
1
0
0
0
0
1
0
1
2
33
28
CAM
0
0
0
0
1
0
0
1
0
0
0
0
1
0
0
1
36
29
MAC
0
2
0
2
0
1
4
5
0
0
0
0
0
3
4
7
21
30
KGZ
0
2
3
5
0
0
1
1
0
0
0
0
0
2
4
6
23
31
JOR
0
2
2
4
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
2
2
4
27
32
TKM
0
0
4
4
0
1
1
2
0
0
0
0
0
1
5
6
23
33
BAN
0
0
1
1
0
1
1
2
0
0
0
0
0
1
2
3
31
33
LAO
0
0
2
2
0
1
0
1
0
0
0
0
0
1
2
3
31
35
AFG
0
1
1
2
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
1
1
2
33
35
LIB
0
1
1
2
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
1
1
2
33
37
NEP
0
0
0
0
0
0
1
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
1
1
36
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