REPRESENTATIVES of Fiji’s 32 sporting organisations gathered in Lami yesterday for the National Sporting Organisations Conference, the largest meeting of sporting bodies in Fiji.
The meeting was held at the Novotel Suva Lami Bay outside Lami, where the focus of this year’s conference was on high performance and what it meant for the nation’s sporting bodies.
Speaking on the event, the executive chairman of the Fiji National Sports Chairman, Peter Mazey said the event opened up the opportunity to learn what it meant for Fiji and the sporting organisations.
“We’re learning more about what high performance means to Fiji and to us,” Mazey shared.
“We’ve got a lot of athletes that are very powerful and have reached gold medals in the Olympics and at world games but we can do a lot better and if we can put in place a structure to train our athletes and like they requested, we have to fund them.”
He emphasised how funding them meant they would become dedicated to their work in elevating various aspects of training and preparation to its full potential.
“We have to pay them so they can be totally dedicated to be the top of their field so it’s the support network, as well as the training but it’s bringing in those things like nutrition and psychology, sports psychology and we need that.”
He added this would tie in to how the Pacific region was aiming to win a lot of gold medals at the 2032 Olympic Games in Brisbane, Australia.
“So by starting now, we can do it.”
