KUCHING: The corporate sector plays a vital role in helping the state’s sports development, especially on producing more talented athletes.
Such involvement could go beyond sponsorships and financial support, said Assistant Minister of Youth Development (Urban) Datuk Abdul Karim Rahman Hamzah.
“Corporate sector’s involvement in sports development could help produce more good sportsmen and sportswomen in fields such as cycling and swimming.
“We assure you that the government would still be providing assistance, as we encourage more sponsor from the corporate sector to come forward,” he told the media after performing the ‘Corbusier-Samudra Hotel-Polygon Team Presentation’ at Samudra Hotel here yesterday.
Hotel’s executive director Rizal Wahab, Team Corbusier principal Safri Mohammed, Polygon/Rodalink Sarawak representative Alex Kho, state cycling coach Leon Schepers, and Team Corbusier logistics manager Mohammad Royzaid Musa were also present.
Abdul Karim said having partnerships with the corporate sector could reap in lots of benefits such as funding for development works, as well as accomplishing shared goals. He expressed his appreciation and gratitude to Samudra Hotel and Polygon for sponsoring Team Corbusier — a local cycling group that will be taking part in this year’s road-racing season.
The team has already established its presence in the state’s cycling fraternity, strengthened by its standing as the only local club to have worn the coveted Yellow Jersey at Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI)-run Tour of Borneo 2013.
