The Bahrain Olympic Committee (BOC) will be presented today with the Drassa Award for Sports Science for the best initiative professional organisation.
Supreme Council for Youth and Sports Assistant General Secretary and BOC General Secretary Abdulrahman Askar will collect the award at the awards ceremony in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. The awards ceremony will be held under the patronage of General Authority for Sport Chairman Mohammed bin Abdulmalik bin Abdullah Al Shaikh.
The award was announced after the third session of Arab Sports Initiatives International 2016 – 2017.
BOC won the award due to its initiative – Nasser Bin Hamad Al Khalifa Award for Scientific Research in the field of sports.