National Olympic Committee

So I think if we could actually invest in those people, those personnel to bring that to life, I think that we could develop a better model for revenue distribution and also reinvestment in the game.

World Rugby has confirmed that the Samoa Association of Sports and National Olympic Committee will now oversee the high performance of rugby programme in Samoa.

A current statement issued on Friday says this was agreed by the Government of Samoa, Lakapi Samoa and the Samoa National Olympic Committee during meetings held in Apia on Thursday.

The meetings were attended by World Rugby Chairman Brett Robinson.

The committee and an appointed stewardship group will now be responsible for all matters relating to Samoa's national teams, including preparation and participation in global elite competitions such as the Men's Rugby World Cup in 2027.

I learned a lot from Coach Harris, obviously, but I only coached for the one year and then got back into athletic administration.

I went to the Olympic Committee from there.

My broad dream was to be an athletic director.

You know, I wanted to be the first block AD in SEC.

So, you know, You learn a lot as you go through it.

I learned a lot from Coach Harris, obviously, but I only coached for the one year and then got back into athletic administration, went to the Olympic Committee from there.

My broad dream was to be an athletic director.

I wanted to be the first block AD in SEC.

Now, I didn't think about the team at that time.

Until the next day when I got a call from the newspaper that the Olympic Committee had called Torrance to tell them that I qualified for the Olympic Trials at Randall's Island in New York.

And again, it wasn't important to win.

I made the team.

I can never say that word.

Plurality? Plurality? equality clarity that's the word races and ben's pronunciations don't go too well here so basically participation and registrations for these games is pretty much dictated by the isc so there's actually no qualification criteria for these games it all comes down to the isc going you get this amount of people you get this amount of people this is how it's all going to work so on that page there are six pillars which essentially dictate how athletes are chosen for this so universality the where all NOCs and the refugee Olympic team are ensured to have the opportunity to participate in the Games with at least one male and one female athlete.

So every NOC on the planet has the opportunity to send one male and one female.

And then going back to my point, I think it's only Turkmenistan and North Korea who are the ones who are not doing that.

Continental representation, there cannot be no more than one place per NOC in sport for all continents, countries on continents, basically on that level there.

A big focus on Africa, given this is in Africa.

All 54 African NOCs will be prioritized by the IOC and African countries will then be allowed to have at least two male and two female.

So lots of priorities given there, which I'm on board with.

There is? That's on the high end.

But if you think about it, China has a different list of countries than the U.S., and the Olympic Committee has a different list

than...

I think in terms more of the Olympic countries, which is closer to 200.