The 4th Busan TAFISA World Sport For All Games

  Busan (KOR) – 19 November 2007   2008 Busan World TreX-Games is a World Cultural Sport Games organized by TAFISA and it is officially patronized by IOC, WHO and UNESCO. This event is scheduled to be held from 26 September to 2 October 2008 in Busan, Korea, where Traditional Archery will be one of the major events.   The official title of the event is “The 4th Busan TAFISA World Sport For All Games” which is also called “TreX-Games” in common parlance, since ‘Tr’ symbolizes ‘Traditional’, ‘e’ stands for e-games and ‘X’ represents ‘Extreme Games’.   TAFISA organizes World Festival of Traditional Sports and Games every 4 years. This festival is designed to collect traditional sporting activities from all around the world at one place, which are succeeded and developed as a cultural heritage in each nation of the world to present them through demonstration and competition. The 4th festival, to be held in Busan next year, is different in operation from the three previous festivals and aims to offer a new paradigm for the culture of sport. Busan’s TreX-Games in 2008 will not only cover traditional sports, the core part of the TAFISA’s quadrennial event, but also adopt newly-developed leisure sports for younger generation (e.g. X-Games and e-Sports) in terms of competition. The transformation of the event as a New Mega Event is expected to contribute to the realization of the new sport paradigm - the harmonization of traditional and futuristic sport cultures.   The 4th Busan TAFISA World Sport for All Games (TreX-Games Busan 2008) is scheduled from September 26th to October 2nd in 2008. There will be approximately 10,000 athletes and executives from 100 nations in the world. The whole event will be categorized under 3 sections and each section will have 19 games respectively, which will be divided into competition and non-competition games. Along with this cultural sporting festival, extracurricular programs will be prepared and they will include IOC Forum (1,000 participants from 80 nations), Sport Industry Fair, and other cultural programs such as World Photography Contest, etc.   2008 Busan TAFISA World Sport for All Games gained the first official patronage from the IOC since the beginning of the TAFISA Games in 1992 and it underlines the significance of the Games as a part of Olympic Movement. The Games are also sponsored by other international organizations such as the UNESCO and the WHO.   Ø      Introductory Document Ø      Programme     For more information: Prof. Anita Ghosh, Ph.D. Advisor - International Affairs The 4th Busan TAFISA World Sport For All 2008, Korea Phone: +82-51-500-2882 Fax: +82-51-500-2809 anita_ghosh_di@yahoo.com