This was within the framework of a conference organised in partnership with Fenasu recently.

On the sidelines of the 18th edition of the university games, the National Olympic and Sports Committee in partnership with the federation for university sports, Fenasu, organised a conference to edify and encourage students to adopt Olympic values in all their endeavours especially in sports competitions.

The conference which was on the theme “challenges and stakes of the emergence of an Olympic generation for growth and national integrity,” was animated by eminent members of the National Olympic Academy and university dons like Professor Jean Tabi Manga, Jean Emmanuel Pondi, Amvam Zolo, Asheri Kilo and Diffo Justine.

Speaker after speaker hammered on the need for youths to adopt the Olympic values of peace, tolerance, mutual respect and need for fair play during sports competitions. Values which if adopted could be translated to real life as Cameroon strives towards emergence, saying emergence also has to be spiritual.

They called on the youths to shun materialism, adopt an attitude of detachment and shy away from fraud or discrimination against HIV positive athletes during the university games competitions.

Sports, Diffo said, unites people and “united we can attain our objectives,” she said. Professor Jean Tabi Manga disclosed that the National Olympic Committee in the days ahead will sign a convention with FENASU and the Ministry of Higher Education towards inculcating Olympic values in the students.

This he said is the contribution of the national Olympic academy towards Cameroon’s emergence which should not only be economic but also spiritual.