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The Elite Coaches Seminar, funded by the Hongkong Bank Foundation, is an annual seminar jointly organised by the Hong Kong Coaching Committee (HKCC) and All-China Sports Federation since 1993. Held on 25 February 2012 at the Regal Riverside Hotel, this year's seminar carried the theme of "Preparation for Olympics". Over 250 Hong Kong elite coaches attended the event.
Professor Frank Fu, Chairman of the HKCC, and Jiang Zhi-xue, General Director of Science and Education Department of General Administration of Sport of China officiated at the opening ceremony. In the opening remarks, Professor Fu thanked the All-China Sports Federation who worked closely with the HKCC in providing opportunities for Hong Kong coaches to gain international exposure, and the continuous support from the Hongkong Bank Foundation (HBF). Jiang added that the Elite Coaches Seminar had provided an excellent platform for elite coaches and sports professionals to understand the contemporary coaching issues and helped maintain the quality of coaches.
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Also being one of the speakers, Jiang Zhi-xue talked about scientific support to the China National Team. Jiang is responsible for the development of sports science, education and anti-doping control in China. In his presentation, he addressed methodologies and strategies for enhancing the high level competitive sports performance of the China Olympic team. He addressed that the achievements in the Olympic Games not only relied on the training by coaches, but also on the scientific and technological support of the researchers.
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Peter Keen is the Director of Performance at UK Sport. In his presentation, entitled 'Preparing the Athlete, the Team and the Nation for the Olympics: are the challenges the same?', he shared his experience in preparing elite athletes and teams for medal-winning performances, and explored the wider challenges of strategic approaches to developing the UK high-performance systems.
He outlined UK’s recent Olympic medals history, and explained his role and his involvement in coaching individual athletes, creating and managing a team, and developing a successful national elite system. He mentioned that the challenges were essentially the same for seeking excellence for an athlete, a national sports team, and a sports system, but the difference was in the time consumed for the development.
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Takahiro Waku, Senior Director for Information and International Relations at Japan Sports Agency, spoke on the topic "The Challenges of Japanese Elite Sport for the London 2012 Summer Olympic Games". He shared with the coaches on the major challenges that Japanese Sports were facing, including how to maintain the high performance of traditional sports and new developing potential sports on medal winning potential. Also, Waku mentioned about the one stop shop for sports science support for the Japan Team outside the athlete's village in the 2012 Olympics.
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Shen Jin-Kang has been the Head Coach of the Hong Kong Cycling Team since 1994. He has nurtured many outstanding Hong Kong cyclists, including Wong Kam-po and Kwok Ho-ting, and has trained many young cyclists, enabling them to achieve multiple successes in major events, while marking Hong Kong as one of Asia's leading cycling teams. Coach Shen’s presentation, entitled "The Road to World Champion and Olympic Success", covered ways of nurturing local athletes to achieve world class levels of performance, as well as preparation for the London Olympics with the support from the Hong Kong Sports Institute (HKSI).
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Yao Zheng-jie, Head Coach of the China National Swimming Team, talked about the China swimming team's preparation for the 2012 Olympics. He also discussed the major improvement on China’s swimming team from 2007 with the support from overseas coaches and the benefits from altitude training in recent years.
Participating coaches gained lots of insights and knowledge from the presenters’ fruitful sharing, and they actively participated in the questions and answers sessions after each presentation in order to explore more about the subjects.
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