IWUF PRESIDENT´S MESSAGE The fruitful year 2013 marks an importante milestone for IWUF, which has seen a lot of significant progress and accomplishments. Wushu officialy participated in the Olympic bidding process for the first time. And our presentations were well received b the IOC. Even though we were unsuccessful in achieving our desired goal, IWUF gained invaluable experience and knowledge from this bidding process and the sport of Wushu gained significant global exposure and an enhanced image ad status from our efforts. The successful 12 th world Wushu Championships was held from Octobre 28 to November 6, 2013 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, in addition, Wushu Competitions of the World Games in Colombia, the SportAccord Combat Games in Russia and the Islamic Solidarity Games in Indonesia were all very successful, and preparations for “Nanjing 2014 Youth Wushu Tournament” are well underway. We have ma