Rugby on the Olympic program 2016 and 2020

The global Rugby family are celebrating the announcement that Rugby Sevens will be included at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. An overwhelming vote in favour of inclusion by the International Olympic Committee members at the 121st Session in Copenhagen means that the world’s top men’s...

October 9th, 2009 | Events, International, rugby | Read More

Candidate cities bring in the Big Guns to impress

COPENHAGEN, September 29, 2009 – Friday October 2 is D Day for the four cities vying to host the 2016 Summer Olympic Games. And in not wanting to be outdone in the heads of state stakes, an impressive list of world leaders has been announced in the run-up to Friday’s vote with the latest addition...

September 29th, 2009 | Events, International | Read More

Caribbean Games hopefully in 2011

After the inaugural Caribbean Games were cancelled this summer, the Caribbean Association of National Olympic Committees aims to have them in May 2011. CANOC’S executive committee gathered in Tortola, British Virgin Islands for the first time since the games were cancelled. CANOC President Steve...

September 28th, 2009 | Caribbean Games, Events, International | Read More

South American Games welcomes women’s boxing

Following the historic decision by the International Olympic Committee to include women’s boxing at the 2012 Olympic Games, the South American Sports Organization ODESUR has now approved the inclusion of women’s boxing at the IX South American Games, to be held in Medellin, Colombia from...

September 25th, 2009 | Boxing, Events | Read More

International athletics and female soccer courses

Through the Pan American Sports Organization (PASO) in Mexico, NAOC gets the opportunity to select coaches together with our member sport federations, to participate in international courses. These sport technical courses are of a high international level, and consist out of about 56 hours of education....

September 16th, 2009 | Athletics, Events, International, soccer, Sports | Read More

Zimmerman puts Netherlands Antilles on the map

Gilton Benjey Zimmerman made the transition to boxing from kick-boxing just four weeks before the 2009 AIBA World Championships in Milan, but this didn’t stop him from putting on a spectacular show last night at the Mediolanum Forum. The 23-year-old super-heavyweight (+91kg) lives and trains in...

September 8th, 2009 | Boxing, Events, International | Read More

NAOC starts Young Promising Athletes program

On Saturday 5th of September our Olympic Committee announced the support towards 13 Young athletes. These athletes represent 6 different sport disciplines. The goal of this program is to qualify directly for the first Youth Olympic Games (YOG) which will be organized next year in Singapore (14-26 August...

September 7th, 2009 | Events | Read More

NAOC signs World Anti-doping Code

With the installation of the NAOC anti-doping commission in 2007, NAOC started already to take the anti-doping issues very seriously. Although the government up to now didn’t send a representative for the commission, there were different steps taken. On request of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA),...

August 30th, 2009 | Events | Read More