{"id":584,"date":"2007-11-12T14:52:00","date_gmt":"2007-11-12T14:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/acolop.net\/?p=584"},"modified":"2022-09-19T15:16:18","modified_gmt":"2022-09-19T15:16:18","slug":"acolop-aprova-programa-dos-ii-jogos-da-lusofonia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acolop.net\/en\/2007\/11\/12\/acolop-aprova-programa-dos-ii-jogos-da-lusofonia\/","title":{"rendered":"ACOLOP approves programme for the 2nd Lusophone Games"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The XI General Assembly of the Association of Portuguese-speaking Olympic Committees (ACOLOP ), held in Lisbon last Monday (12 November), was attended by the presidents and general secretaries of the integrated Olympic Committees (Angola, Brazil, Cape Verde, Mozambique, S\u00e3o Tom\u00e9 and Pr\u00edncipe, Macau, Portugal and Sri Lanka). This session saw the approval of the sports programme, dates, official logo and mascot for the 2nd Lusophone Games Lisbon 2009, as well as the creation of the \"House of Lusophony\" during the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games. The Secretary of State for Youth and Sport, Laurentino Dias, and the Portuguese Sports Institute, namely president Lu\u00eds Sardinha, and vice-presidents Rui Xavier Mourinha and Jo\u00e3o Guerra, respectively, presided over the opening ceremony. In his speech, Laurentino Dias reiterated the government's guarantee of support for the ACOLOP and Lusophony project. \"I'd like to make the Portuguese government's position clear. We have embraced the idea of ACOLOP and the excellent concept promoted by this institution, which not only brings together Portuguese-speaking countries and regions, but also unites a common feeling. It's an excellent idea that our government will never stop supporting\u00e2'\u00ac\u00c2. The same official also praised the success of the 1st Lusophone Games, held in Macau, describing the inaugural session held in 2006 as a \u00e2\u00e2'\u00ac\u00c5\"high moment in the renewal and strengthening of friendship and the companionship typical of Lusophony\u00e2\u00e2'\u00ac. This experience will be put to good use by the Organising Committee, especially given the quality with which the first edition was organised and the good organisational example that we should look to for commitment and dedication for the future of ACOLOP and the organisation of the Games,\u00e2\u00e2'\u00ac he added. The Secretary of State also argued that the Lusophone Games should not just be a sporting event, but should involve other areas of the Lusophone community. \"Let it be a great moment to organise and involve all the associations and groups that work in Portugal and have to do with these communities. Involve the arts, entertainment, culture and social action,\" said Laurentino Dias. Manuel Silv\u00e9rio, president of the Executive Committee and the General Assembly, also said a few words in which he emphasised that since the Association is less than a year away from the Beijing Olympics and less than two years away from the second edition of the Lusophone Games Lisbon 2009, we need to get to grips with the projects and launch ACOLOP towards an ideal of growth and positioning in the international sports movement. With regard to the Olympic Games in Beijing in 2008 and the involvement of ACOLOP, which will be present with the establishment of the \"House of Lusophony\" in Beijing, at a location already chosen, Manuel Silv\u00e9rio, with regard to the ideal underlying this initiative, stressed that \"the realisation of this project could be a step forward in affirming, albeit indirectly, of the growing need to use the Portuguese language in the Olympic world and this step will be taken by ACOLOP, in a cultural and promotional involvement of its members and their projects and initiatives as well as a favoured place for Portugal to promote the 2009 Lusophone Games.\u00e0'\u00c2 The president of the Portuguese Olympic Committee (C.O.P.), Jos\u00e9 Vicente Moura, then gave a presentation on the organisational model and the venues planned for the competition, which were visited during the afternoon. The ACOLOP members also visited for the first time the facilities of the Sports Complex in Alta de Lisboa, provided by the Lisbon City Council, where the COJOL Lisboa 2009 headquarters will be based. Lisbon will host the second edition of the Games from 11 to 19 July 2009, keeping the eight sports that were already part of the programme for the 1st Lusophone Games Macau 2006 (Athletics, Basketball, Football, Futsal, Taekwondo, Table Tennis, Volleyball and Beach Volleyball) and adding Judo. They will take place at the sports facilities of the University Stadium, Restelo Stadium, Luz Pavilion, Casal Vistoso Pavilion, Cidade Almada Municipal Sports Complex and Santo Amaro de Oeiras beach, with the Opening and Closing Ceremonies planned for the Atlantic Pavilion. Another item on the agenda was the Association's proposal to support the Brazilian Olympic Committee's bid to organise the 2016 Olympic Games, with Bernard Rajzman pointing out that \"it is with great honour that we will commit our total dedication to making this project a reality and we are very proud to represent the first Portuguese-speaking Olympic Committee that has the possibility of holding a celebration of this magnitude. Logo and mascot\u00e0'\u00c2 The logo and mascot for the 2nd Lusophone Games Lisbon 2009 were created by DNA \u00e2\u00e2'\u00ac- Design New Approach, part of the Young & Rubican Brands group. The logo uses the image of an athlete celebrating victory, holding a multicoloured ribbon, in keeping with the motto \"Unity is more important than victory\". The mascot developed to interact with all the sports involved is a small flame, symbolising the spirit of friendship, joy and youth of the Olympic fire. The final name of the mascot will be chosen in a competition of ideas to be launched among the Portuguese school population and the other ACOLOP member countries and regions.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":585,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","neve_meta_reading_time":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-noticias"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t