LNOC
Delays Opening Olympic Clubs
By Julu M. Johnson, Jr.
The Liberia National Olympic Committee (LNOC) has delayed the National
Campaign of opening Olympic clubs around the country.
The process began last Friday, October 21, 2005 with Olympic clubs
being opened at the JJ Roberts High School on 12th Street, Sinkor, the
Haywood Mission on Old Road and the Susan Berry High School in Congo
Town.
It was promised that the program would continue on Wednesday, October
26, 2005. But the Olympic Committee, through its Vice Chairman for
Administration, Attorney-at-Law Sylvester D. Rennie committed that the
program would rather resume on Friday, October 28, 2005 and that the
process will thereafter be extended to other parts of the country.
The LNOC indicated that this is intended to further educate students
on the inner workings of the International Olympic Committee (IOC),
the Olympic Movement and to keep the spirit of the Olympics alive.
The LNOC added that the purpose of the program is to educate,
enlighten, broaden and inform the students on the aims, objectives,
activities, programs and an overview of the Olympic Movement that
would include the IOC, the Olympic Solidarity and other components of
the Olympic Movement.
The LNOC mentioned that the driving ideal is to have the students,
most of whom are athletes, be encouraged in their various sporting
events and to know the brains behind the various sporting activities,
and the rewards to be derived, as well as the functionaries of the
Olympic Movement.
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