Wheelchair Basketball tournament organizing committee formed
Updated：2008-01-15
The first plenary meeting
(BEIJING, January 15) -- The 2008 Wheelchair Basketball International Invitational Tournament, a Good Luck Beijing sport event, will be held in the newly built National Indoor Stadium from January 20 to 25.
The news came from the first plenary meeting of the event's organizing committee on Monday.
Eight teams from six countries will participate in the competitions. China, Canada, Germany and Japan will each send a women's team, while the men's teams come from China, Canada, the Netherlands, and Australia.
Presently, the tournament's operation program, daily competition schedule and the venue's work plan have been made available.
The 24 international officials will come from the International Wheelchair Basketball Federation (IWBF). Another 30 domestic technical officers will be assigned by the Chinese organizations. As required by the tournament, a total of 842 volunteers will be assigned to their posts on January 18.
Tang Xiaoquan makes a speech
Tang Xiaoquan, executive vice-president of the Beijing Organizing Committee for the Games of the XXIX Olympiad (BOCOG) and president of the Executive Board of the China Disabled Persons' Federation, attended the meeting and made a speech.
Noting that the tournament is the second sport event of the Good Luck Beijing series for the Beijing Paralympic Games after last September's goal ball international tournament, Tang said it is also the last pre-Paralympic event before the Beijing Paralympics scheduled for September 6 to 17, 2008. She urged the organizers to ensure the success of the event to lay a solid foundation for the Paralympics, which will be as splendid as the Olympics.
Meeting attendants
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