The Worldwide Hockey Federation (FIH) has at the moment confirmed the names of the technical delegates, technical officers, umpire managers, umpires and medical officers who’re appointed to the Olympic Video games Paris 2024.
The choice has been made by the FIH Technical Officers and Umpiring Committees, chaired by Sheila Brown (South Africa) and Roger St. Rose (Trinidad and Tobago) respectively.
Persevering with hockey’s drive in the direction of sustaining gender equality within the sport, there’ll once more be a 50-50 cut up of the officers on the Video games throughout Umpires and Technical Officers. This can be a key goal for the Worldwide Olympic Committee (IOC) who intention to realize this throughout all sports activities on the Olympic Video games Paris 2024.
Talking on the announcement of officers for Olympic Video games Paris 2024, FIH President Tayyab Ikram mentioned: “Officers play a elementary function and provides a really substantial a part of their free time to their ardour for the game! That is outstanding and I’d prefer to thank every hockey official, wherever on the earth. To all those that’ve been chosen for the Olympic Video games in Paris subsequent 12 months: big congratulations! This can be a incredible achievement. On behalf of FIH, I need to guarantee you of our full confidence, help and respect. And I’m notably happy that the cut up of all officers throughout each genders might be a precise 50-50, in keeping with the overarching gender equality precept which prevails in our sport.”
Launched on the Olympic Video games London 1908, hockey at Olympic Video games Paris 2024 will mark its 25th look within the quadrennial sporting occasion.
Each males’s and girls’s occasions on the Olympic Video games will contain 12 of the world’s finest hockey nations. Discover out extra about Hockey on the Olympic Video games on Olympics.hockey.
