Sunday, June 19, 2011

OCM Weekly Highlights - 19th June 2011

23rd OCM Executive Board Meeting –
 The 23rd OCM Executive Board meeting was held on 14th June 2011 at OCM Boardroom, Mezzanine Floor, Wisma OCM, Kuala Lumpur. The following matters were noted or decided:-
  • The OCM Selection Committee will hold its meetings on 26th and 27th July 2011, to select the athletes and officials of the Glasgow 4th Commonwealth Youth Games and the Indonesia 26th SEA Games 2011.
  • The 6th OCM-Pharmaton Ex-International Golf Challenge 2011would be held at the Kelab Golf Seri Selangor on 27th July 2011 from 6.45 am.  The entry fee is RM100/= and the closing date was 20th July 2011.
  • Mr. Brian Minikin has completed the first phase of the evaluation of the capacity and functioning of NSAs and left Malaysia on 13th June 2011. 
  • Prof. Leigh Robinson, the lead researcher of the team, would be in Kuala Lumpur from 18th to 22nd July for meetings and discussions with OCM, NSAs and other organizations involved in sports development in Malaysia.


1st Annual General Meeting of the OCM Trust Management Committee
The 1st Annual General Meeting of the OCM Trust Management Committee Meeting was held at  on 14th June 2011 at OCM Boardroom.  The Trust Management Committee agreed in principle to disburse a maximum of RM50,000/= for the first half of 2011 and a maximum of RM200,000/= for the second half of 2011.  As only 5 NSAs had applied for grants from the OCM Trust Fund for the first half of 2011, each NSA would be granted a maximum of RM10,000/=.  The final grant to be approved would be based on the details provided by each of the 5 NSAs.

On the investments of the Trust Fund, the current value of the Trust Fund as at 10th June 2011 was RM13,641,432.99, which was an increase of RM529,548.36 or 4.07% from the last date of valuation, which was end of 2010.  The Committee decided that the current asset allocation of the fund was a little risky as around 54% of the fund was on equity.  The target was to reduce the equity portion to around 20%. 



30th OCM Annual General Assembly 2011
The 30th OCM Annual General Assembly was successfully concluded on 18th June 2011. 80 delegates from 32 out of 35 Ordinary Members and 8 delegates from 8 out of 20 Associate Members of OCM attended the above AGA.  The following are the results of the elections of office bearers for the session 2011/2013:

President - YAM Tunku Tan Sri Imran ibni AlmarhumTuanku Ja’afar (returned unopposed)
Deputy President - Y.Bhg. Dato’ A. Sani Karim (returned unopposed)                                                 
Vice Presidents –
Cik Low Beng Choo (returned unopposed)                                                                                      
Y.Bhg. Tan Sri Mohd Noor Abdul Rahim                                  
Y.Bhg. Prof. Dato' Dr. Zakaria Ahmad                                                                                           
Y.Bhg. Dato' Roy Rajasingham
Y.Bhg. Laksda (B) Dato' Danyal Balagopal Abdullah   
                                 
Hon. Secretary - Dato' Sieh Kok Chi (returned unopposed)                                              
Hon Asst Secretary (woman) - Cik Moira Tan Siew See (returned unopposed)              
Hon. Asst. Secretary (man) - Encik Kumar Thangaraju
Hon. Treasurer - Encik Yong Chu Kong (returned unopposed)                                                   
Hon. Asst Treasurer - Encik Rozmanizam  Abdullah (returned unopposed)

YAM Tunku Tan Sri Imran ibni Almarhum Tuanku Ja’afar thanked the retiring Office Bearers for their generous and valuable contributions to OCM over the years. He stated that with the three newly elected Office Bearers, OCM will continue to support and assist its members to improve themselves, especially in the area of governance. OCM will also emphasize on its main role of selection, preparation and management of teams and athletes participating in multi-sports Games.


4th Advanced Sport Management Course 2011 in progress
The second session of the above course held from the 19th to the 22nd May 2011, had ended.  The remaining eleven (11) participants are looking forward to the third session which would be from 4th to 7th August 2011, with the final session, from 6th to 9th October 2011.

Come October 2011, only the resilient and persevering participants who remain, will qualify and receive the International Olympic Committee certificate for the Diploma in Management of Olympic Sport Organisations.  There will be a combined graduation ceremony of the 2010 batch of eleven successful participants with the present eleven-participant batch of 2011 if they are successful.  Let’s hope all these present eleven sports officials will be able to make it till October 2011.



Announcing the results of the 3rd Advanced Sport Management Course 2010
Out of the thirteen final participants who did well, two of them have not submitted their assignments on time.  As a result, only eleven (11) would be issued the Diploma in Management of Olympic Sport Organisations certificate.

The eleven (11) successful all male participants of the 3rd Advanced Sport Management Course 2010 are as follows: Alfred Ong Soon Chuan, Franco Liu Foo Yeon, Moey Wooi San, Liew Kok Wah, 
Edwin Dutton, Hardeep Singh, Md. Saadon bin A. Shukor, Mohd Zarrawi Ravi Abdullah, Vincent Ho Swee Peng, Peter Chee Nyuk Min, and Raymond Tan @ Arman Annuar Tan.

  

2011 IOC Trophy: “Sport and Social Responsibility”
Since 1985, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) has made available to all NOCs an annual IOC Trophy, each year with a different theme.  The NOCs are responsible for identifying and selecting a recipient of the Trophy in their countries.

For the year 2011, the title of the IOC Trophy is “Sport and Social Responsibility”. The Trophy will be presented to any athlete, official, organisation and other people, who are involved in sport, who are role models and an inspiration to young people.

OCM has the pleasure to invite NSAs, Media and the public to nominate candidates for consideration to be the recipient of the 2011 Trophy, which will be presented at the XIX OCM Annual Dinner in December 2011. The closing date for nomination is 31st July 2011.
(The aboe two articles were contributed by Ms. Moira Tan Siew See, Hon. Assistant Secretary of OCM)




Olympic Council of Malaysia

Sunday, June 12, 2011

OCM Weekly Highlights - 12th June 2011


SPB Yang DiPertuan Agong’s Birthday Awards

The OCM wishes to congratulate Encik San Seong Kok, on being conferred the Ahli Mangku Negara (AMN) award in recognition for his services to sports in Malaysia by His Majesty the Yang di-Pertuan Agong XIII, Al-Wathiqu Billah Tuanku Mizan Zainal Abidin Ibni Al-Marhum Sultan Mahmud Al-Muktafi Billah Shah, on the occasion of His Majesty’s Birthday on 4th June 2011.

30th OCM Annual General Assembly 2011

The members of the Independent Panel, appointed by OCM to conduct the biennial elections of Office Bearers of OCM are Hajah Norminshah Sabirin (Returning Officer), Encik C. Sivanandan and Encik Ong Leng Kok.

Ordinary members of OCM were invited by the Returning Officer on 26th May 2011 to submit their nomination forms to elect Office Bearers of OCM for the session 2011/2013. Their nomination forms were opened by the Independent Panel at 5.00 p.m. on 7th June 2011.  The nominations received were checked and confirmed by the Independent Panel, after which a media release were sent to the media as well as to the affiliates of OCM and the nominated candidates.

The nominations received are as follows:

Positions
Nominees
President
YAM Tunku Tan Sri Imran ibni AlmarhumTunku Ja’afar*
Deputy President
Y.Bhg. Dato’ A. Sani Karim*
Vice President
Y.Bhg. Prof. Dato’ Ar. W. Y. Chin

Cik Low Beng Choo (nominee for women Vice President)*

Y.Bhg. Prof. Dato’ Dr. Zakaria Ahmad

Y.Bhg. Dato’ Roy Rajasingham

Y.Bhg. Laksda (B) Dato’ Danyal Balagopal Abdullah

Y.Bhg. Tan Sri Abdul Halil Abdul Mutalif

Y.Bhg. Senator Dato’ Maijol Mahap

Y.Bhg. Tan Sri Mohd Noor Abdul Rahim
Hon. Secretary
Y.Bhg. Dato’ Sieh Kok Chi*
Hon. Asst. Secretary (M)
Encik Ramlay Ibrahim

Encik Kumar Thangaraju
Hon. Asst. Secretary (F)
Cik Moira Tan Siew See*
Hon. Treasurer
Encik Yong Choo Kong*
Hon. Asst. Treasurer
Encik Rosmanizam Abdullah*

The positions marked * have only one (1) nomination each. The Returning Officer has declared the sole nominees for these positions to have been returned unopposed.

All affiliates of OCM are reminded of the 30th OCM Annual General Assembly which will be held on Saturday, 18th June 2011 at 9.30 a.m. at OCM Indoor Sports Arena, Level 3, OCM Indoor Sports Complex, Wisma OCM, Kuala Lumpur. In accordance with the Articles and Bylaws of the Constitution of OCM, Notice, Agenda, the Financial Report for Year ending 31st December 2010 and the 29th Annual Report, have been sent to the affiliates of OCM on 25th May 2011 and are also available in OCM Website, www.olympic.org.my.

The Returning Office, Hajah Norminshah Sabirin has requested the Registration of Delegates forms, duly filled and signed by either the President or the Honorary Secretary (Secretary General) of the Ordinary Member of OCM to be returned to OCM on or before 10.00 am on Monday, 13th May 2011.

In accordance with the Articles and By-Laws of the Constitution of OCM, Ordinary Members of OCM must submit their Registration of Delegates forms, duly filled up with the names of 3 delegates and 2 alternates, to OCM by 10.00 a.m. on 13th June 2011.  Non-registered delegates would not be permitted to attend and vote at the 30th OCM Annual General Assembly on 18th June 2011.  Associate Members of OCM must also submit their Registration forms with the name of one observer, who can attend the 30th OCM Annual General Assembly but has no voting rights.



Survey of National Sports Associations (NSAs) in Malaysia

Mr. Brian Minikin has completed the first phase of the evaluation of the capacity and functioning of NSAs and will be leaving Malaysia in the morning of 13th June 2011.  Due to SUKMA, except for about a dozen NSAs, the remaining NSAs are still filing up the Survey forms distributed by Mr. Brian Minikin.  In any case, while waiting for more information from the survey forms submitted by the NSAs, Mr. Brian Minikin has managed to analyse the returns from the Rating Exercise on NSAs carried out by OCM in 2007 and 2009.

NSAs that have not filled up and return their Survey forms to OCM are requested to do so as soon as possible.  The completed Survey forms submitted after Mr. Brian Minikin has left Malaysia will be emailed to him to analyse.  Mr. Brian Minikin will return to Malaysia during the first week of July 2011, when he will meet representatives of NSAs to discuss in depth the capacity and functioning of NSAs.

Prof. Leigh Robinson, the lead researcher of the team, will be in Kuala Lumpur from 18th to 22nd July for meetings and discussions with OCM, NSAs and other organizations involved in sports development in Malaysia.

OCM’s Relationship with BFM 89.9FM

BFM 89.9FM, has been broadcasting news from OCM/NSAs in their weekly programme –
"Sports Un-illustrated" - hosted by Ross Yusoff on Sundays from 10.00am to 12 Noon.  The
National Associations of Ice Skating, Water Skiing, Hockey and Lawn Bowls and have been
providing news and information to Encik Chris Syer, a member of the OCM Media Committee and
in turn BFM 89.9FM has provided the above sports some coverage.

NSAs, that wish to have their up-coming events and personalities featured on the BFM 89.9FM
“Sports Un-illustrated” programme, are requested to make contact with Encik Chris Syer, a member
of the OCM Media Committee by e-mail < scianda@yahoo.com > or mobile 012 3895950.  The
publicity from having their news aired on BFM89.9FM would certainly benefit NSAs concerned,
their sports and their athletes.

 2011 IOC Trophy: “Sport and Social Responsibility”

Since 1985, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) has made available to all NOCs an annual IOC Trophy, each year with a different theme.  The NOCs are responsible for identifying and selecting a recipient of the Trophy in their countries.

For the year 2011, the title of the IOC Trophy is “Sport and Social Responsibility”. The Trophy will be presented to any athlete, official, organisation and other people, who are involved in sport, who are role models and an inspiration to young people.

OCM has the pleasure to invite NSAs, Media and the public to nominate candidates for consideration to be the recipient of the 2011 Trophy, which will be presented at the XIX OCM Annual Dinner in December 2011. The closing date for nomination is 31st July 2011.

Coming Events

23rd OCM Executive Board Meeting – 14th June 2011 at 4.30 p.m. at OCM Boardroom, Mezzanine Floor, Wisma OCM, Kuala Lumpur.
48th Asia Pacific Bridge Federation (APBF) Championships 2011 – 15th to 24th June 2011 at Level 2C, OCM Indoor Sports Complex, Wisma OCM, Kuala Lumpur.
30th Annual General Assembly of the Olympic Council of Malaysia (OCM) – 18th June 2011 at 10.00 a.m. at OCM Indoor Sports Arena, Level 3, Wisma OCM.
2011 MALGA’s Annual General Meeting – 21st June 2011 at Kota Permai Golf & Country Club.
Olympic Day Fun Run 2011 – 17th July 2011 at Dataran Merdeka Kuala Lumpur from 7.00 a.m.
Malaysian Ladies Amateur Open 2011 – 19th to 21st July 2011 at The Mines Resort and Golf Club.
World Sepaktakraw Championships 2011 – 20th to 24th July 2011 at Titiwangsa Sepaktakraw Stadium, Kuala Lumpur.
6th OCM-Pharmathon Ex-Internationals Golf Challenge 2011 – 27th July 2011 at Kelab Golf Seri Selangor (KGSS), from 6.45 a.m.
Sarawak Wakeboard World Cup – 16th to 18th September 2011, at Kuching, Sarawak.
2011 IWWF Asian Waterski & Wakeboard Championship – 5th to 9th October 2011 at Water Sports Complex Presint 6, Putrajaya.
1st Asian Shotgun Shooting Championships – 5th to 15th December 2011 at National Shooting Range, Subang, Selangor Darul Ehsan, Malaysia.

MAJOR SPORTS EVENTS 2011/2012
9th World Conference on Sport and the Environment – 30 April to 2 May 2011, Qatar.
51st International Session for Young Participants – 25th June to 9th July 2011, Olympia, Greece.
30th General Assembly of the Olympic Council of Asia (OCA) – 14th July 2011 at Tokyo, Japan.
4th Commonwealth Youth Games 2011 – 7th to 13th September 2011, Isle of Man.  
14th World Sport for All Congress 2011 – 20th to 23rd September 2011 at Beijing, China.
26th SEA Games 2011 – 11th to 25th November 2011 at Palembang and Jakarta, Indonesia.
Games of the XXX Olympiad – 27th July to 12th August 2012, London.