Muscat: Sayyid Khalid Al Busaidi has taken over as the new chairman of Oman Olympic Committee (OOC) after he won the election held on Thursday.
Sayyid Khalid who is also the former chairman of Oman Football Association (OFA) won 10 out of 14 votes against acting OOC Chairman Sheikh Saif Al Hosni. Sayyid Khalid has been associated with sports since 1986. He became the first-ever elected OFA chairman in 2007 and during his tenure, Oman won its maiden Gulf Cup title in Muscat in 2009.
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