Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the SNOC Annual General Meeting 2009.
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FY2008/09 has passed very quickly. Since the last AGM, we have experienced two very successful Major Games – the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games and the inaugural Asian Youth Games Singapore 2009. |
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The 2008 Beijing Olympic Games has a special significance for all of us as we won our second Olympic medal in history, after a long 48-year wait. |
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That we did well for the recently concluded inaugural Asian Youth Games 2009 is also significant. Not just in terms of medals from our young athletes, more importantly it demonstrates Singapore’s togetherness in organizing a Major multi-sport Game to present-day standards, and doing it to well. The AYG 2009 has exceeded the expectations of the Olympic Council of Asia and the participating NOCs. |
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Let me now deliver my report for the work year 2008/09. |
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2008/09 will go down in history as a special year. Just as we remember 1960 for Tan Howe Liang’s silver medal in weightlifting at the London Olympic Games, 2008 will forever be remembered for our table tennis women’s team silver medal at the Beijing Olympic Games.
We will also remember 2008 for the one year we had to put together the AYG 2009. |
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Beijing Olympic Games |
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At the 29th Olympiad held in Beijing, China from the 8 to 24 August 2008, Singapore was represented by a 49-member contingent comprising 25 athletes and 24 officials in 6 out of the 28 sport disciplines, namely athletics, badminton, sailing, shooting, swimming and table tennis. It is significant to note that 24 of the 25 athletes qualified for the Games on their own merit. |
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Singapore won a silver medal in the table tennis women’s team event. The team’s success can be attributed a great deal to Project 0812, where additional funding and resources were devoted to the athletes and teams to challenge for Olympic medals. |
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Feng Tianwei, Li Jiawei and Wang Yuegu of the table tennis women’s silver medal winnng team won for themselves $750,000 from the MAP awards. |
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Affiliation of NSAs with SNOC |
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Four new NSAs were affiliated to SNOC as provisional members. They are the Singapore Amateur Boxing Association, the Singapore Modern Pentathlon Association, the Handball Federation of Singapore and the Wrestling Federation of Singapore. The affiliation of these NSAs is essential since the sports they represent are in the Youth Olympic Games 2010. |
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These NSAs have been given provisional membership, as they have not fulfilled all the requirements to be Ordinary or Associate Members. I would urge these NSAs to work towards fulfilling full affilliation at the earliest opportunity after the YOG. |
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NSA representation in SNOC Executive Committee |
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At this juncture I would like to thank Mrs Jessie Phua (Singapore Bowling Federation), Mr Oon Jin Gee (Singapore Swimming Association) and Dr Teo-Koh Sock Miang (Singapore Hockey Federation) for serving as your NSA representatives in the SNOC Executive Committee for the past year. |
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Later on we will have our election for your NSA representatives to sit in SNOC for this workyear. This scheme of having NSA representatives in SNOC has worked well. Firstly, it helps bring SNOC and the NSAs closer together thereby improving our understanding of each other. Secondly it provides sports leaders from the NSAs to assist in the roles and duties of the SNOC. |
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Mr Tan Soo Nan, the Chief Executive of Singapore Totalisator Board, Mr Oon Jin Teik CEO, SSC and Dr Ben Tan the Chairman of the Athletes’ Commission (AC) will continue as co-opted members in our Executive Committee. |
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The Chairman of the Athletes’ Commission is elected by his fellow AC members, and the AC members themselves are elected by our athletes at the SEA Games once every four years. The next AC election is due this coming SEA Games 2009. |
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Anti-Doping |
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The SNOC Anti-Doping in Sports Commission (SADSC), as the de-facto National Anti-Doping Organisation (NADO) for Singapore conducted 67 dope tests in 2008/09. This comprised 45 in-competition tests, and 22 out-of-competition tests. |
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The SADSC with the assistance of the Japan Anti-Doping Agency (JADA) conducted a formal course in February 2009 to train 47 new Doping Control Officers in preparation for the Asian Youth Games Singapore 2009 and the 2010 Youth Olympic Games. |
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This new pool of 47 DCOs will help boost our existing pool of 13 certified DCOs who have been active in conducting doping control tests all these years. |
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The SADSC will be dissolved when an independent NADO take shape in three to four months time. The new NADO under the purview of the Ministry of Community Development, Youth and Sports will be staffed with a full-time General Manager and two Doping Control Officers. They will set up viable programmes on drug testing, education and information, and to collaborate with their counterparts throughout the world to achieve harmonization and improvement of standards and practices in anti-doping. |
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In the near future SNOC intends to set up a Medical Commission in place of the Anti-Doping in Sport Commission, to address the protection and promotion of the athletes’ health in training and competition. This is an area that the IOC has identified that the NOCs may have neglected, given our emphasis on anti-doping all these while. |
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SNOC Athletes’ Commission (AC) |
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Members of the Athletes’ Commission (AC) continue to represent and serve the athletes in the areas of mediation (a lot less now with the setting up of the mediation body, the Alternative Dispute Resolution), advisory, representation and the Athletes’ Career Programme. The athletes’ perspective continue to be highlighted in policy-making, through the AC members’ involvement in SNOC’s various standing committees. The AC is also represented in the Board of the Singapore Youth Olympic Games Organizing Committee. |
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