Bayi to attend Museum of World Athletics launch

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AfricaPress-Tanzania: TANZANIA Olympic Committee (TOC)’s secretary general, Filbert Bayi, has been invited by World Athletics to attend the first virtual preview of the Museum of World Athletics (MOWA), to be held in Monaco, France next week.

World Athletics, through its president Sebastian Coe, said MOWA will be launched soon.

“On behalf of World Athletics, I am delighted to invite you to the exclusive virtual preview of the soon to be launched Museum Of World Athletics (MOWA) that will take place on 11 March 11,” said Coe’s invitation sent to Bayi.

Coe said the event will honour the extraordinary history of athletics and he said he is looking forward to speaking to Bayi.

Bayi stated it would have been imperative if Tanzania had its museum to honour athletes who brought honour and glory to the country.

He disclosed that TOC plans to have its museum at the committee’s offices, noting that plans are in the pipeline.

Bayi stated: “This is an invitation and information from World Athletics’s president, Lord Sebastian Coe, it would have been better if Tanzania has its own museum to honour its athletes who did a lot for the nation.”

”The TOC has plans to have the committee’s museum at its offices, we are planning to build it,” he said.

The World Athletics invitation further said: ” Given the times we are all living in at the moment it is challenging for people around the world to access museums, culture and sporting events, so, we are proud that MOWA will be the first 3D virtual sports museum of any kind globally, bringing a new level of innovation and creative technologies to the sporting arena.”

The World Athletics’ presiednt, Coe, described MOWA as an accessible and sustainable museum platform, saying it was created to excite, entertain, and educate the world about athletics’ history.

He said: ” We would be delighted if you would join us and some champions of our sport on this interactive journey.”

” We hope you will discover more about the legends of our sport and be able to explore the highlights of past World Athletics Championships,” he said.

The MOWA is under World Athletics’ heritage department. According to World Athletics, the heritage department’s goal is to better employ athletics’ history, its heroes and heroines, their artefacts and the documents, video and photographs that portray them, to engage with the stars and fans of the present and future.

”The core concept is based around the creation of a historic collection of athletics memorabilia associated with iconic athletes, their performances and major competitions and events in the history of athletics which will augment the document and video archive already held by the IAAF.”

”This combined collection will form the basis of a travelling exhibition which will visit IAAF competitions, with the medium to long term aim of establishing a permanent museum for the sport in Monaco near the IAAF headquarters.”

”Working with established IAAF projects such as Athlete Ambassadors and the annual Athletics Awards Night, IAAF Heritage will endeavour to put the feats of athletics’ glorious history into context, making the connection between a sport born nearly three thousand years ago with the millennials of today,” the World Athletics said at the unveiling of the heritage department

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