The Asian Games 2018 ended on a high note on September 2nd after 16 days of competitions. Especially, South and North Korea made a deep impression on the audience by marching together into the stadium during the opening ceremony under a common flag featuring a map of the Korean peninsula. This shows what the slogan “Energy of Asia” means. Sport can bring peaceful energy and be a powerful tool to promote unity.
During the Asian Games, DTM graduates brought such a positive energy and led the Asian Games to success. 5th batch student Nominzul Khuyag (Mongolia) was invited to the Asian Games as an international volleyball referee. During the game, she officiated at a men’s match between Korea and Nepal and women’s match between Chinese Taipei versus India as a first referee. She was the youngest volleyball referee who was selected this time.
Two Indonesian alumni, Lie Wiena Octaria (1st batch) and Tara Talitha (3rd batch) graduates, have worked at the Indonesia Asian Games 2018 Organizing Committee (INASGOC). Lie Wiena oversaw the course of medical services and doping control services and produced a master plan on duties and obligation of the medical services as a Member of Medical & Doping Control Department. Tara, a Coordinator of the Human Resources & Volunteer Department, was responsible for all aspects of volunteer recruitment process including selection, training, and management and handled administrative works related with human resources. Also, she educated the volunteers about the sports values and Asian Games Legacy based on the knowledge what she learned from the Dream Together Master.
Dream Together Master 4th batch graduates were actively engaged in various fields. Zohreh Abdollahkhani (Iran) has been nominated by the Asian Climbing Council (ACC) to officiate as a technical official for sport climbing. Eunjoon Bang (Korea) also participated in the Asian Game as a team official of the Korea Sailing Team. Rani Handayani (Indonesia) worked in Indonesia Asian Games Organizing Committee (INASGOC) for Canoe Slalom and Canoe Sprint Sport as National Technical Official in Race Administration Department.
Aldo Tong (Philippines) served as an NOC Assistant for the Kumite Olympiade Indonesia (KOI), the Indonesian National Olympic Committee. A few of his tasks included providing support to the needs of the KOI office and assisting the teams and athletes in their needs at the Athletes Village and the games venues.
At the world’s largest multisport event after the Olympics, more than 11,000 athletes from 45 countries competed in 40 sports. We are expecting the success of DTM graduates’ future careers and another possible sport mega event appearance in future to lead global sport community.
