It gives me great pleasure to announce the launch of our first environmental program, the “IAAF Green Project.” Starting at the 11th IAAF World Championships in Athletics Osaka 2007, we will continue to make a strong commitment to protecting the global environment in Berlin, 2009 and the future Championships that will follow.
Basically, athletics is the simplest style of sports to compete one’s potential without using any specific instruments. If we let the global-scale environmental disruption go on, there would be no place for the human beings to do the very basic actions of “running,” “jumping” and “throwing.” It is our belief that the IAAF World Championships in Athletics is the true competitions to determine world champions, not of “a limited number of people who live in a favorable environment” but of “all human beings living on the earth” and we will do our best to keep it that way.
I am proud of the fact that athletics is a truly global sport, and the fact that we have 212 Member Federations around the world is testimony to that. Beginning in Osaka this year, we hope the IAAF Green Project will become a truly global program of the environmental protection, expanding its covering territories to other Asian countries and all over the world and we will devote ourselves to the global promotion of environmental awareness along with the worldwide development of athletics.
For all concerned parties in the Championships and in any other athletic events, the launch of the IAAF Green Project at the Osaka 2007 represents an important step in taking environmental initiatives at the sport, which will be passed to future event organizers
Basically, athletics is the simplest style of sports to compete one’s potential without using any specific instruments. If we let the global-scale environmental disruption go on, there would be no place for the human beings to do the very basic actions of “running,” “jumping” and “throwing.” It is our belief that the IAAF World Championships in Athletics is the true competitions to determine world champions, not of “a limited number of people who live in a favorable environment” but of “all human beings living on the earth” and we will do our best to keep it that way.
I am proud of the fact that athletics is a truly global sport, and the fact that we have 212 Member Federations around the world is testimony to that. Beginning in Osaka this year, we hope the IAAF Green Project will become a truly global program of the environmental protection, expanding its covering territories to other Asian countries and all over the world and we will devote ourselves to the global promotion of environmental awareness along with the worldwide development of athletics.
For all concerned parties in the Championships and in any other athletic events, the launch of the IAAF Green Project at the Osaka 2007 represents an important step in taking environmental initiatives at the sport, which will be passed to future event organizers
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