?Supreme Council for Youth and Sports chairman and Bahrain Olympic Committee President Shaikh Nasser bin Hamad Al Khalifa, will patronize a gala celebration titled ‘Loyalty Night’ to honor the winners of the Shaikh Isa bin Rashid Al Khalifa Award for Voluntary Work, on the first week of January next year.
A number of administrators who have worked for no less than 25 years in the sports federations, in addition to sports media personnel who served more than 20 years in various media organisations, will also be honoured at this event.
The Bahrain Olympic Committee has already addressed the sports federations to send the names of those eligible to be honoured.
The first edition of the ‘Royalty Night’ was in 2011, which saw the honoring of a group of administrators and media representatives in the field of sports.
The committee began its preparation for the ceremony, as acting general secretary Abdulrahman Askar chaired the initial meeting of the organizing committee, and directed all committee members to setup necessary arrangements.
During the meeting, all parties discussed a number of ideas and proposals aimed at highlighting the ceremony in appreciation with the great contributions of the awardees during their career.
On this occasion, Askar said this celebration is in compliance with the directives of Shaikh Nasser bin Hamad Al Khalifa, stressing the keenness of Bahrain Olympic Committee to honor the administrators and journalists who worked for many years serving the sports movement in the Kingdom and setting up the foundation of this sector, which has seen dramatic expansion in the last decade through the achievements of multi-national teams in various overseas events.
Askar said that this honor is a tribute to the great efforts and services provided by those media representatives who have been keen to develop sport in Bahrain, which indeed has resulted in the flourishing of local sports and its reaching highest levels, stressing that the pioneers of the sports movement in the Kingdom deserve a special honor in order to constitute a motive booster for the coming generations.
