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Laureus Academy Members Edwin Moses And Nawal El Moutawakel Honoured With Fair Play Awards |
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Laureus Academy Chairman Moses receives Jean Borotra Trophy from IOC President Jacques Rogge. Academy Member Nawal El Moutawakel presented with inaugural AIPS Power of Sport Award. ’I am delighted to receive this award. I have always passionately believed in the importance of fair play’ - said Edwin Moses.Edwin Moses, Chaiirman of the Laureus World Sports Academy, and fellow Laureus Academy Member Nawal El Moutawakel have been presented with World Fair Play Awards in Lausanne. Dr Moses received the prestigious Jean Borotra World Fair Play Trophy award from International Olympic Committee President Jacques Rogge on behalf of the International Committee for Fair Play (ICFP), in the category of ‘sports career and life in the spirit of fair play’. Nawal El Moutawakel was named winner of the inaugural AIPS Power of Sport Award, along with May Faysal El-Khalil, the founder of the Beirut Marathon. The presentation was organised jointly by ICFP and the International Sports Press Association (AIPS). Dr Jenõ Kamuti, President of ICFP, told Edwin Moses at the presentation of the award: “I am truly honoured to recognise your exemplary achievement in the world of sport and the Olympic movement and on the field of promoting fair play.” Edwin Moses said: “I am delighted to receive this award. I have always passionately believed in the importance of fair play. The aim of the International Committee for Fair Play is to promote respect for the spirit of fair play and the values it represents, not only in elite sport, but for all sport and indeed in daily life. This is something that matters very much to me, which is why receiving this award is so special. “Laureus stands for similar values. We believe that sport can be used in many ways to aid society and improve the lives of young people around the world. It’s important that we make youngsters understand the importance of sporting values and what those values can mean to them in their lives.” The International Fair Play Committee was founded in 1963 and its mission has been to draw the attention of the world to outstanding examples of fair play and good sportsmanship ever since. The award is named after Jean Borotra, one of the legendary four French tennis players in the 1920s nicknamed ‘The Four Musketeers’, who was the first president of the committee. Edwin Moses is one of the few athletes to become a true global ambassador of sport. He was the first athlete to pioneer the acceptance of controlled professionalism in athletics, and, as a sports administrator, he is best known for his work in the development of policies against the use of performance-enhancing drugs. He was responsible for the development of drug control policies and procedures as Chairman of the Substance Abuse, Research and Education organisation. A qualified physicist, Moses has been a member of the International Olympic Committee Ethics Commission for ten years. In 2000, he was elected by his fellow members to become the inaugural Chairman of the Laureus World Sports Academy. Last October Moses was appointed to the Board of the United States Anti-Doping Agency, the national anti-doping organisation for the Olympic and Paralympic movement in the US. Since its inception in 2000, USADA has worked to preserve the integrity of competition, inspire true sport and protect the rights of athletes. Nawal El Moutawakel was the first Moroccan, African and Muslim woman to win an Olympic gold medal, in the 400 metres hurdles in Los Angeles in 1984. She is a former Vice-Chair of Laureus and Minister of Sport and Youth in Morocco. She has already overseen the Evaluation Commission for the 2016 Olympics, a role she also fulfilled for the 2012 Olympics that were ultimately awarded to London, and is now Chair of the IOC Co-ordination Commission for the Rio de Janeiro Olympics in 2016. Her Olympic gold medal proved a major breakthrough for sporting women in Morocco and other Muslim countries and she has made the cause of health and fitness and participation of women in sport the centre piece of her philosophy. As organiser of the Courir pour le Plaisir, an annual 10 km fun run which attracts up to 30,000 women in Casablanca, she has put her beliefs into practice. She has also been instrumental in supporting two Laureus Sport for Good Foundation projects in Morocco aimed at encouraging women � first the Women in Sport project in Aït Iktel, oone of the most isolated and disadvantaged areas of the country, and more recently the Courir pour La Vie project near Casablanca
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