Government to unveil sports strategy in coming weeks - PM

The government will be unveiling a new sports strategy in the coming weeks as part of efforts to raise standards, Prime Minister Joseph Muscat announced on Sunday.

Addressing Labour Party supporters in Siġġiewi, Dr Muscat, who has just returned from Abu Dhabi after visiting athletes competing in the Special Olympics currently underway there, said that the government was working on ensuring sports standards are raised.

Congratulating the athletes in Abu Dhabi who had already won several medals, Dr Muscat said that the Maltese team served as a “symbol of equality”.

“It is such a beautiful thing to honour these youths who are a symbol of equality. They serve as a symbol that Malta wants to celebrate the success of everyone. They teach us that they are not happy with participating but they want to win, despite their different abilities,” Dr Muscat went on.

He insisted that ensuring sports standards were of the highest in the world would continue to improve the nation’s quality of life, something that the government had already succeeded in doing in recent years.

Dr Muscat said that this also meant that the government would not only make sure that more people with disabilities had a...