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“Building Bridges, Breaking Barriers” is the theme for this edition of the Oceania Athletes’ Forum. Held biennially since 2015, the Forum missed its 2021 edition due to the evolving restrictions under the global COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic. The concept of sharing the vision of ‘building bridges’ and ‘breaking barriers’ are two-pronged: one is to build bridges between and among athletes themselves, then their own organising to move outward toward the ecosystem and structures of sport to facilitate positive sporting careers and experience.
“Building Bridges, Breaking Barriers” is the theme for this edition of the Oceania Athletes’ Forum. Held biennially since 2015, the Forum missed its 2021 edition due to the evolving restrictions under the global COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic. The concept of sharing the vision of ‘building bridges’ and ‘breaking barriers’ are two-pronged: one is to build bridges between and among athletes themselves, then their own organising to move outward toward the ecosystem and structures of sport to facilitate positive sporting careers and experience.
The second is to break barriers, some of these long-standing, to enable a transition to stronger, and better performance through self-defined challenges and priorities. Probably the most significant challenge is that some barriers seem ‘permanent’ and are repeated in various editions of the Forum over the years – hence the key feature of this theme is to signpost athletes to these and facilitate their deliberations, so athletes take ownership and leadership of their own journeys.
Transitioning from the Forum theme of ‘Building Bridges, Breaking Barriers’, event logo for the 5th edition of the Oceania Athletes’ Forum provides a more direct approach to the business of sport. Drawing lessons from how Oceania athletes, particularly those from ‘small’ Pacific Islands challenges and tougher pathways to sporting excellence, the logo depicts seventeen arrowheads (NOC Athletes’ Commissions) pointing upwards or ‘higher’ and framed to mirror the sail of the ancient sailing-vessel in the ONOC logo.
In this iteration, the arrowheads signal athletes to take their passion for sport and transition this to the business of sport which is the new direction offered by ONOC in its evolving BRISBANE 2032 10-Year Roadmap – the first-ever long-term athlete and entourage development pathway to build a generation of high-performing athletes improve Pacific islands performance at the Olympic Games by up to 500%. Athletes are built to set and work toward goals – every race is structured with the end in mind.
The logo points to the skies – traditionally the place of constellations of stars, which the ancestors of all Pacific Island peoples read to make to cross the largest ocean of the world and make it their home. The logo casts the eye in the same well-trodden pathway challenging athletes to read their future into well-structured plans.
