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International Paralympic Chief Salutes Dubai For 'amazing' World Para Athletics Championships
Mohammad Ali (@ChaudhryMAli88) Published November 14, 2019 | 03:00 PM
DUBAI, (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News / WAM - 14th Nov, 2019) Andrew Parsons, President of the International Paralympic Committee, has saluted the UAE leadership for their support of the Paralympic movement and hailed the efforts of the Organising Committee in hosting Dubai 2019 World Para Athletics Championships.
The Dubai 2019 Championships, which will come to a close on Friday after nine days of intense competition at the Dubai Club for People of Determination, are the biggest of the nine World Para Athletics Championships held since 1994, in terms of participation, with more than 1,500 athletes from 122 countries taking part.
The Championships have also attracted a big media contingent, numbering in excess of 350, with more than 100 of them coming from Japan, who will be hosting next year’s Summer Paralympic Games from 25th August to 6th September, as well as the next World Para Athletics Championships in 2021.
Speaking to the local media here, Parsons said, "Dubai is a powerhouse when it comes to delivering Paralympic events. It has a long tradition of delivering events at the highest possible level and here is no different. The athletes are happy and the teams are happy. I was in Brazil for the first half of this Championship, watching on tv, and it was amazing.
"We know that the UAE committed to organise this Championship at a very short notice - only two years and to deliver a World Championship like this in two years is amazing. They are making it very difficult for the next ones. Our Japanese colleagues in Kobe [host of 2021 World Para Athletics Championships] will have to work really hard because Dubai has really raised the bar."
Parsons, who took over the reins of the International Paralympic Committee, IPC, from Philip Craven following his election at the 18th assembly of IPC in Abu Dhabi in 2017, travelled to the UAE capital on his arrival here to meet and thank His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander of the UAE Armed Forces, for the UAE Government’s generous support and patronage of Paralympic sports, not just in the UAE and the region, but around the world.
"I went from here to Abu Dhabi just to meet His Highness," Parsons said. "The only thing I told him is, ‘Your Highness, thank you for the support the government is giving to Paralympic sport, not only in UAE because the way you are doing it, you are supporting the growth of the Paralympic movement in Asia and at a global level’. That was my brief message to His Highness.
"There is a lot of support from the UAE government and a lot of goodwill of the people here, the quality of people who have been working with us. At the end of the day, support from the government is fundamental and super important, but if you don’t have good people who can deliver, then it becomes difficult.
"Here you have very good people delivering at the highest level. So it is always good to be back here. And I was elected here in Abu Dhabi, so always a pleasure to be back here," he said.
Talking about the growth of the Paralympic movement, Parsons added, "The Paralympic movement is growing worldwide. We have more funding, we have national Paralympic committees with better programmes in place, we have better and younger athletes now.
"World records are being broken because we have better athletes now and the level of training they have in their own nations is getting better and better. This is a sign of the growth of the Paralympic movement worldwide," he pointed out.
"Dubai has been a reliable partner for us in this growth. The number of events you host here, the quality of the events and having the President of the Asian Paralympic Committee here and connecting the whole of Asia," Parsons noted.
"So I am really satisfied with the World Championship here. Good level of organisation and of the services given to the athletes and teams, the level of accommodation and transport, services here at the venue I couldn’t be happier," he concluded.
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