Maldives Olympic Committee to increase women’s participation in sports
18 Feb 2014, 5:06 PM
Ahmed Rilwan
The Maldives Olympic Committee (MOC) has decided to step up women’s participation in international sports by introducing guidelines to encourage sports associations to support female athletes and officials.
The MOC has informed all national sports associations that, while funds will be released based on their performance and training, the committee will now give priority to women.
The committee will set a target of 33 percent of games contingents to be women, alongside a requirement that half of sports officials be female.
“We have noticed that when when women officials participate in international games, they are very involved in it afterwards. But there are very few officials currently, we want to encourage them,” said Secretary General of the committee Ahmed Marzooq.
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