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levels and achievements, in addition to high-level athletes in various sports, in
cooperation between the authority and its strategic partners from government
agencies and sports sector institutions. We have plans to develop all athletes who

show that they have distinctive talent and high potential in any sport, and we will
provide all support to them, thus contributing to enhancing their hopes and the

hopes of the UAE to achieve global achievements. The main objective is to create a
developed identity for Emirati sports globally, and this will reflect on the sustainable

growth and prosperity of the sports sector in the country.”

Priority sports were identified based on a classification that included all sports, and

based on a well-studied set of criteria that included: Olympic potential in each sport,
the possibility of Olympic success, opportunities to achieve Olympic medals,
achievements and international championships, and determining the level of

competition globally, and the talents that the UAE currently possesses in That sport,
taking into account the facts and statistics related to each sport, such as the number

of practitioners, the number of clubs, the reality of training centers, infrastructure,
tools and equipment available, as well as other criteria related to ease of
implementation, cost, readiness of federations, financing plans, and others.

The classification showed that there are high opportunities for achieving
achievements in many individual sports, due to the expansion of the competition in

them, the distribution of Olympic medals to a large number of countries, and the
absence of countries that dominate the top positions in them. Ranking scores were

determined and the sports ranked according to the factors studied, with the priority
sports receiving the highest scores. The figures show that there are approximately

2,300 athletes registered in the priority sports federations in the UAE, and more than
12% of them have the opportunity to reach the high-level category, which enhances
the chances of Olympic attendance in these sports.

In a related context, the Coordination Council meeting dealt with ways to develop the
role of the Emirates Sports Federation for school and university education

institutions, by supporting priority sports by introducing students, encouraging them

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