Kuwait City, Kuwait, June 12, 2024: The Manager of the Olympic Council of Asia’s Athletes’ Department, Mr. Jamyang Namgyal, described the OCA webinar on the Prevention of Manipulation of Competition as a big step forward for the integrity of sport in Asia.
The webinar - held on Wednesday, June 12 - was run in cooperation with the IOC Olympic Movement Unit for the Prevention of Manipulation of Competition (PMC) and attracted over 60 participants from Asian National Olympic Committees and other interested parties.
The webinar provided updates on PMC activities within Asian NOCs as well as looking forward to Paris 2024 and the events available for athletes and officials to attend, both digitally and face to face in the Olympic Village.
Summing up the webinar, Mr. Jamyang said: “I believe this has been a vital webinar in the very important topic of PMC and I would like to express my gratitude to all of the participants. It shows your commitment to maintain fairness and for athletes to compete with integrity.
“We must be free of manipulation of competition in sports and your insights have contributed to a very successful webinar.”
Topics included the importance of each NOC to appoint a Single Point of Contact to coordinate the efforts to fight match-fixing, betting and other aspects of PMC, the reporting mechanism and the sanctions available.
Representatives of the Jordan, Kazakhstan and Pakistan NOCs gave presentations on their own projects and initiatives, while Mr. Jamyang outlined the OCA’s efforts to raise awareness of PMC.
The OCA adopted the IOC’s PMC rules on May 7, 2021 and held a webinar which attracted 140 participants from 44 NOCs to prepare the teams for the Hangzhou Asian Games. The OCA had a hotline in Hangzhou for anyone to report suspicious behaviour during and around sports competition.
Mr. Evangelos Alexandrakis, of the OM Unit PMC, said team sports and racket sports were most at risk, but every sport was vulnerable. He added that all sports and disciplines had been assessed for risk management going into the Paris Olympics.
The webinar also heard from Maria Barakat, Manager of the Jordan Olympic Academy who has been named as Asia’s Believe in Sports Ambassador for Paris 2024.
