Nuzman earns the Eagle Award, the highest award of the United States Sports Academy
Before BOC president, Pelé was the only Brazilian to receive this award
The president of the Brazilian Olympic Committee Carlos Arthur Nuzman was named the winner of the Eagle Award, the highest international award of the United States Sports Academy. On Thursday, November 19, Nuzman received a plaque and the trophy from Peter Tichansky, the President and Chief Executive Officer of the Business Council for International Understanding, representing the president of the United States Sports Academy. Mr. Thomas Rosandich. Mr. Tichansky stated that Nuzman had earned the award in recognition of BOC presidents successful efforts to bring to 2016 Olympic and Paralympic Games to Rio and to in South America for the first time. The award also recognizes the successful delivery of Rio Pan American Games, in 2007, and all the years Nuzman has dedicated to the development of Sport in Brazil. Before Nuzman, a single Brazilian had been honored with this award: Pelé, in 1995.
I am deeply honored to have been nominated to receive this award by the United States Sports Academy, one of the most prestigious sport education institutions in the world, Carlos Arthur Nuzman said. This award recognizes many years of hard work dedicated to the advancement of the Olympic Movement. The right to host the first of the Olympic Games to be held in South America resulted from much dedication and effort, Nuzman added.
Every year the Eagle Award is presented to a world leader in sport to recognize that individuals contribution in promoting international harmony, peace and goodwill through the effective use of sport. Besides Nuzman and Pelé, past winners include Juan Antonio Samaranch (1999), Honorary President of the International Olympic Committee; Mario Vazquez-Raña (1987), President of the Pan American Sports Organization; H.S.H Prince Albert of Monaco (1997) who is an IOC member and a former Olympic athlete and governor of California Arnold Schwarzenegger (2002), among other outstanding personalities. The award was created in 1986.
The United States Sports Academy is an independent non-profit organization, whose mission is to serve the nation and the world as a sport education resource, upgrading sport through programs of instruction, research and service.
I am deeply honored to have been nominated to receive this award by the United States Sports Academy, one of the most prestigious sport education institutions in the world, Carlos Arthur Nuzman said. This award recognizes many years of hard work dedicated to the advancement of the Olympic Movement. The right to host the first of the Olympic Games to be held in South America resulted from much dedication and effort, Nuzman added.
Every year the Eagle Award is presented to a world leader in sport to recognize that individuals contribution in promoting international harmony, peace and goodwill through the effective use of sport. Besides Nuzman and Pelé, past winners include Juan Antonio Samaranch (1999), Honorary President of the International Olympic Committee; Mario Vazquez-Raña (1987), President of the Pan American Sports Organization; H.S.H Prince Albert of Monaco (1997) who is an IOC member and a former Olympic athlete and governor of California Arnold Schwarzenegger (2002), among other outstanding personalities. The award was created in 1986.
The United States Sports Academy is an independent non-profit organization, whose mission is to serve the nation and the world as a sport education resource, upgrading sport through programs of instruction, research and service.
