Two Olympic medallists in Fashionable Pentathlon, Kate French of Nice Britain and Yane Marques of Brazil, had been among the many UIPM Fee representatives participating in latest engagements in Lausanne (SUI).
Kirsty Coventry, the brand new President of the Worldwide Olympic Committee (IOC), staged every week of discussions across the IOC’s new ‘Match For The Future’ blueprint, together with the Worldwide Federation (IF) Discussion board attended by UIPM President Rob Stull and Secretary Normal Shiny Fang.
London 2012 bronze medallist Marques (BRA) was among the many guests to Olympic Home throughout this era, appearing primarily in her capability as Vice President of the Brazilian Olympic Committee (COB) but additionally selling the gender equality agenda as a Member of the UIPM Ladies’s Fee.
Her fellow UIPM Ladies’s Fee Member, Tokyo 2020 champion French (GBR), was one other customer signing the Olympic Wall at IOC headquarters in Switzerland. The lately retired pentathlete took half in a three-day Ladies’s Management Workshop organized by the Affiliation of Summer season Olympic Worldwide Federations (ASOIF).
Yane Marques mentioned: “It was with nice pleasure and a way of mission achieved that we visited the Worldwide Olympic Committee’s headquarters in Lausanne, Switzerland, after I had the honour of assembly the IOC President Kirsty Coventry and signing the Olympians Wall.
“From the start of my journey as an athlete, Olympic Fashionable Pentathlon medallist and now sport chief, I’ve at all times believed that feminine empowerment is straight linked to the pursuit of information and expertise improvement. This has at all times been my method for turning challenges into accomplishments.
“These days, in my capability as Vice President of the Brazil Olympic Committee, I acknowledge greater than ever that these values should prolong past particular person efficiency. They have to be embedded in governance, coaching methodologies, care, staff management and the sporting tradition itself.
“I want to thank the UIPM for the boldness in my job developed on the Ladies’s Fee that has extremely contributed to what I’ve been doing in advantage of sports activities, particularly within the combat for gender fairness.”
Kate French commented: “I’m actually grateful to have had the chance to take part within the ASOIF Ladies’s Management Workshop in Lausanne. It was an extremely invaluable and thought-provoking expertise. Connecting and sharing insights with girls from such a variety of sports activities and backgrounds around the globe was genuinely inspiring.
“The go to to the Olympic Home made me mirror on the Olympic values and my very own journey as an athlete. Then including my identify to the Olympic Wall alongside so many unbelievable Olympians was an actual spotlight.”
Different UIPM Fee representatives concerned in Match For The Future consultations included Alexandra de Navacelle de Coubertin and Dr Klaus Schormann, each long-serving members of the IOC Fee for Tradition & Olympic Heritage (in Dr Schormann’s case, he has been serving on culture-related IOC Commissions since 1994).
Alexandra de Navacelle de Coubertin, a descendant of Fashionable Pentathlon founder Baron Pierre de Coubertin, chairs the UIPM Pierre de Coubertin Fee, of which Dr Schormann is a Member. Dr Schormann, UIPM’s longest-serving President (1993-2004), additionally chairs the UIPM Fee for Tradition and Schooling.
As a part of a 26-strong IOC Fee they participated in a day-long workshop and afterwards had the possibility to satisfy and take images with President Coventry.
