The second specialized meeting for the coordination and review of the delegation to the Asian Games in Nagoya, Japan was held with the presence of officials of the National Olympic Committee, the Ministry of Sports and Youth, the National Teams Monitoring Center and the National Olympic Academy.
Iran NOC; Tehran: At the
beginning of this meeting, Mahmoud Khosravi Vafa, the President of the National
Olympic Committee, while referring to the resolutions of the previous meeting,
said: "We will try to organize the next meetings focusing on the Islamic
and Asian Youth Games in a specialized and separate manner, and important
issues will be discussed in it, it will be possible to choose the Chefs de
Mission of the delegation in the coming weeks”. He added: “With the good
results achieved in the Paris Olympic Games, the expectations of our country's delegation
in the upcoming Asian Games have increased, so that we will try to send a
favorable team to these games with a qualitative view, which will increase the
number of medalists and changing the color of the medals from silver to gold
and from bronze to silver should be on the agenda of the meetings”.
In the following, Dr. Seyed Manaf
Hashemi, Secretary General of the National Olympic Committee, held: “Weaknesses
and strengths of the delegation sent to the Paris and Asian Olympic Games in
Hangzhou should be examined so that the outcome is based on the pathology of
the delegation sent to the Asian Games to Nagoya in Japan which must be investigated
and implemented, the most important of which is the increase in gold medals and
medal-winning disciplines, as well as attention to women in winning medals”.