Monaco is establishing a high performance, multi-sport International Olympic Training Center which
extends the Principality’s vast support of professional and amateur sports, and the Olympic Games. Monaco currently has world class, state-of-the-art sporting facilities throughout the Principality which have the capacity to accommodate the training requirements for more than 30 Olympic sports. Monaco is also home to the new, high tech Monaco Institute of Sports Medicine and Surgery.
The Monaco Olympic Training Center will provide the following services for elite level international athletes: Accomodations for Visiting Athletes, Dining Hall, Coordination of Sport Facility Use, Scheduling of sports Medicine & Rehabilitation Services, Academic Training, Official Monaco Olympic Training Center Merchandise Store, & Tours of Monaco Olympic Training Center and Olympic Museum.
Usage of the Monaco Olympic Training Center will include: Elite Level Training Camps, International Competition Preparation, Athletes competing in Monaco’s International Sporting Events, Athletes in rehabilitation, Sports Clinics, & Weekend, Summer or Day Camps for youth.
Monaco has become a major global sporting center, hosting some of the world’s most prestigious sporting events in a wide array of disciplines. Many Olympians and professional athletes have made Monaco their home or have set up their business in the Principality. Monaco has a powerful support system in the area of sports on the National and International level.
In additon to its specacular facilities and location, Monaco also has its own facinating Olympic legacy. In 1920, the most famous U.S. rower of all time, Jack Kelly, grandfather to HSH Prince Albert II, won gold medals in the men’s single and double sculls. In 1924, Kelly repeated his victory in the men’s double sculls, taking home his third Olympic gold medal. John Kelly Jr., Prince Albert’s uncle, competed in four Olympic Games. Shortly before competing in the Melbourne Olympics, he promised to bring back a medal as a wedding gift for his sister who was about to marry Prince Rainier. He never said which color the medal would be and true to his word, he delivered to Princess Grace an Olympic bronze medal which had tremendous sentimental value. Prince Albert II has kept the family’s Olympic Legacy alive, competing in five Olympic Games in the Bobsleigh. Monaco’s Sovereign Prince is President of the Monegasque Olympic Committee and has been an IOC member since 1985. The final phase of the project is in development and it is projected that Monaco’s Olympic Training Center will open in time for the London 2012 Olympic Games.
Executive Board
HSH Prince Albert II of Monaco Honorary President
Pernilla Wiberg President, IOC Athletes, Solidarity Commissions
Tracy Mattes Vice President, Training Center Creator/Founder
Joel Bouzou Secretary Gen., Advisor to HSH the Prince
Barend Van der Vorm Secretary, President Monaco Venture Capitalist
Alain Leclercq Treasurer, VP Assoc. Sports Monegasque
Sergey Bubka IOC Executive Board, Athletes Commission
Mario Pescante IOC Executive Board, International Relations
Frankie Fredericks IOC Athletes Commission Chairman
Mike Powers President Monte Carlo Entertainment
Osmund Kilkenny President Special Olympics, Irish SportsCouncil
Dho Young-Shim Ambassador Sport & Tourism Rep. of Korea
Reggie Williams VP Disney Sports Attractions
Christine Dominguez GAISF Director General
Laura Walden President Sports Features
Dr. Michael McNamara Founder Monaco Life Check Center
Dr. Maxime Crener President International University of Monaco
Kory Tarpenning President Sirius Sports Marketing
Judy Churchill Sec. General Outward Bound Monaco
