Women basketball hope rise

Mongolian National Olympic Committee’s “Women & Sport” Commission in kind cooperation with Mongolian Basketball Federation is organizing women’s basketball tournament with two age groups ( under & up to 34 ) with participation of 20 teams.Mr.D.Zagdsuren , NOC President , Mr.Ch.Naranbaatar , Chairman of State Authority for Physical Education and Sport , Mr.B.Dashdorj , Secretary-General of Mongolian Basketball Federation , Mrs.D.Arvin , Member of  Parliament and Chairowman of NOC  Woman & Sport Commission , well-known veterans are attended the opening ceremony at Central Sports Gymnasium yesterday.The main goal of this tournamnet is to  support women basketball , involve more  girls to this sport , upgrade their perfomance and finally aimed at sending of  a mongolian women basketball team to “Tianjin-2013″ East Asian Games  to break the unpleasant fact  of  full-absence of female representatives in basketball in  any regional and continental Games before ,while male colleagues did it quite well since 1993 so far.The tournament , which attracted 250 female players , will last till April 3rd and finals will be held in new Sports Complex.Mongolian women athletes proved their strength internationally  in judo , wrestling , shooting   and even in boxing , capturing  gold , silver , bronze medals at World Championships  and Asian Games , held last year.

Annual seminar on Olympic education was held

“The methodology for spread the Olympic education to teenagers” annually seminar was held on the 28^th of March, 2011 in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. It was jointly organized by  Mongolian NOC and Mongolian National Olympic Academy. Sh.Magvan, Honorary Member of IOC, Dr. D.Zagdsuren, President of Mongolian NOC, opened this seminar. There are about a hundred of people, Executives of branch councils of NOC, Methodists in physical education, and teachers from secondary schools are attended. All the attendees received “Olympic education” book, which contains history of Olympic history, Olympic Truce, IOC and Mongolian NOC.

During the seminar lecturers gave speech about major aims of Olympic education, Olympism for all, their methodology and how to get a Olympic education via internet.

OLYMPIC HISTORY in MEDAL LANGUAGE

Mongolia NOC in kind cooperation with ” Development Center for Sports Communication ” ( DCSC ) and Mongolian Olympians Association has opened an first-ever exhibition  titled “Our Sporting proud in language of medals ” at Central Art Gallery in Ulaanbaatar. Main purpose of the extraordinary exhibition of this kind  is to show to visitors all  medals in original gained by Mongolian top athletes at Olympic  and Asian Games , as well as World and Continental Championships for past years. Dr.D.Zagdsuren , NOC President , Mr.Ch.Naranbaatar , Chairman of  State Authority for Physical Education & Sport , Mr.Ts.Gankhuu-Abdul  , President of  DCSC and some olympic medal winners are attended the opening ceremony and they witnessed the  150 proud-worth original medals , which glorified Mongolia at   international stage.Mongolia NOC has a participation at the 12 editions of  Olympic Games , since  Tokyo-64 , and captured 2 gold, 7 silver and 10 bronze in wrestling ,  judo , shooting and boxing respectively.