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7/25/24, 2:10 PM UAE sets out journey to Paris 2024 Olympic Games, competing in swimming and judo games - Aletihad News Center
judo, two days after the official opening ceremony.

The Paris 2024 Olympics is considered an important stage in the UAE’s future sports journey at the Olympic level,
which began in Los Angeles 1984.

It is a departure for a new station towards a brighter sporting future, in light of the National Sports Strategy 2031, which
represents an umbrella for all initiatives, programs and projects of the sports sector in the UAE, and whose main goal

is to increase the number of qualified Emirati athletes to over 30 by the 2023 Olympic Games.

Speaking about the national sporting ambitions and the future of UAE sports in the Olympic Games, the Director-
General of the General Authority of Sports, Ghanim Mubarak Al Hajeri, said, “Since the flag of this dear nation was
raised for the first time at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, we have been dreaming of a bright sporting

future that carries with it achievements and excellence. There is no doubt that our participation in the Olympics is not
just a sporting competition, but rather an embodiment of the visions and directions of our wise leadership and the
dreams and aspirations of our people and our rising generations.”

"The 1984 Los Angeles Olympics was the beginning, and since then we have been striving to build a generation of
athletes who represent the UAE in the best way. The challenges we faced and the difficulties we surmounted were

nothing but additional motivations to achieve more achievements," he added.

“As we prepare today for the Paris 2024 Olympics in a few days, we have in mind a goal that goes beyond Paris,
which is to achieve the largest possible participation and create a new dream for the UAE’s leadership and people, in
line with objectives of the National Sports Strategy 2031, which include developing the capabilities of sports talents

and achieving success in elite professional sports to consolidate the presence of the UAE on the global sports
landscape," he said.

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