Qatar Olympic Committee participates in OCA Media Committee meeting
QATAR Olympic Committee (QOC) took part in the first meeting for the Media Committee of the Olympic Council of Asia (OCA) in its current session, which was held remotely due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Head of Media and Communication at QOC and member of the QCA Media Committee Hamad Al Obaidly represented Qatar Olympic Committee at the meeting.
The members of the Committee discussed crucial matters related press and broadcasting preparations for the upcoming events, IT developments, the revamped OCA website, social media activity, the Sporting Asia magazine and OCA website news content.
President of the Sports and Olympic Committee of Macau Charles Lo, who chaired the meeting, explained the duties and responsibilities of the OCA Media Committee according to the OCA Constitution.
“We have a busy two years ahead of us and will be welcoming thousands of media from around Asia and the world to our OCA events,” Lo said.
“In 2021 we will have the sixth Asian Beach Games in Sanya, China in April, the sixth Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games in Bangkok and Chonburi province in May and the third Asian Youth Games in Shantou, China in November.”
“These three events will lay the groundwork for our media services and operations at the 19th Asian Games in Hangzhou, China in September 2022,” he added.
The OCA was represented by Haider Farman, Director of the Asian Games department, on behalf of the OCA Director General, Husain Al Musallam. Farman said the importance of the media to connect the world had been in evidence particularly during the pandemic and that the OCA had been working hard to inform all sports stakeholders in Asia with news of developments and information in the past few months.