FGG at 13th World Sport for All Congress, post 4

Here's a third report from Darl Schaaff, who is representing the FGG at the 13th World Sport for All Congress (more info on the congress HERE.):

The second day of presentations [16 June] began with one on the World Masters Games. While the FGG had good relations with the hosts of the last Games in Sydney, contact with the International Masters Games Association has not been as productive, and based on the reactions I've observed at this congress, that doesn't seem likely to change soon...

A more positive encounter was with Willem van Mechelen, professor of Occupational and Sports Medicine at the VU University Medical Center in Amsterdam, who is active with the European branch of the WHO and the European Olympic Committee. He was keen to discuss cooperation between FGG and his organizations.

I also spoke at length to the woman who will head up the International Working Group on Women and Sport, who will be hosting the next conference in 2014. We discussed the issues of lesbians in sport, and she said she had just been present at the 2010 Women and Sport conference in Sydney, where she met a "feisty woman" [Kate Rowe] determined to have conversations about this. She recalled that this led to very lively discussions.

I'm looking forward to tomorrow, when Havard will present the work of the Norwegian Olympic Committee, bringing LGBT issues off of my FGG shirt, and onto the table of this Sport for All Congress.