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SEOUL --- Dr. Jacques Rogge, president of the International Olympic Committee,
visited the headquarters of the World Taekwondo Federation to exchange opinions
with WTF leaders on bilateral cooperation in Seoul on April 7, 2006.
On
the final day of the SportAccord 2006, which was held on April 3-7, 2006,IOC
President Rogge met with Dr. Chungwon Choue, president of WTF and chairman of
the Seoul Organizing Committee for the 2006 SportAccord convention, and other
WTF leaders.
It marked the first visit by Dr. Rogge to the WTF
Headquarters since he became the president of the IOC in 2001.
Among the
participants in the one-hour-long meeting were Mr. Ivan Dibos, a member of the
WTF Executive Council and IOC member of Peru; Mr. Phillip Coles, an ex-officio
member of the WTF Executive Council and IOC member of Australia; Mr. Dai-soon
Lee, a vice president of WTF and president of the Asian Taekwondo Union; and Mr.
Cha-sok Park, a vice president of WTF and president of the Pan American
Taekwondo Union. Mr. Coles also serves as president of the newly created Oceania
Taekwondo Union.
Prior to the talks, WTF President Choue granted an
honorary 10th Dan certificate to Dr. Rogge, along with a black belt and Dobok.
Dr. Rogge was the second to be honored with the WTF's honorary 10th Dan, after
Juan Antonio Samaranch, the honorary president of the IOC.
On April 2,
Dr. Rogge received an honorary doctorate degree in physical education from Kyung
Hee University in Seoul.
“IOC President Rogge expressed his deep interest
in WTF’s ongoing reform activities, especially the planned introduction of a new
electronic protector system for fairer judgment and refereeing,” WTF President
Choue said shortly after the meeting.
Dr. Rogge was also quoted by Dr.
Choue as saying, “If WTF continues its ongoing reform without fail, the future
of WTF will be very bright and would have no problem being included as an
Olympic sport in the program of the 2016 Olympic Games and beyond.”
On
March 10, 2005, WTF held its Executive Council meeting in the IOC Headquarters
in Lausanne, Switzerland; the first of its kind as an international sports
federation. The meeting was made possible with the full support of Dr. Rogge.
In line with the IOC’s ongoing reform policy, WTF has implemented a
package of reform programs since February 2005, when the WTF Reform Committee
produced a 188-page reform report. The report was approved at the WTF General
Assembly in April in Madrid, Spain.
Dr. Rogge arrived in Seoul on March
31 to attend both the SportAccord 2006 and the 15th ANOC General Assembly held
at the Grand and COEX InterContinental hotels in southern Seoul.
WTF
served as the secretariat of SportAccord 2006, with WTF President Choue working
as chairman of the Seoul Organizing Committee for the 2006 SportAccord. WTF took
the initiative to win the bid to host the 2006 SportAccord international sports
convention at SportAccord 2005 held in Berlin, Germany.
The next
SportAccord will be held in Beijing, China in late April 2007, with the exact
date to be announced next week.
“Dr. Rogge and so many other IOC members
spoke well of the taekwondo performance during the opening ceremony of
SportAccord 2006 on April 3,” Dr. Choue said.
Dr. Choue added, “By
successfully holding a big international event like SportAccord, we can show the
global sports community our ability to host and organize it.” |
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