Corporate decision-makers have everything to gain from creating partnerships and synergies with Sports Excellence Invisible Units, the SEIUs which, fortunately, have emerged globally in recent years.

We didn't expect so much mastery and so much competition from the UN tennis players. But the truth is, tennis is taken very seriously at the largest organization in the world.

180 women and men arrive in Lisbon with the sole objective of winning the football competition for which they registered. There is no more exciting scenario than this, especially when footballers are UN officials - that is, they spend all year trying to solve some of the world's most serious problems and rarely have a moment of fun.

The UN swimming athletes, meeting in Lisbon for the Inter-Agency Games, their annual sporting competition, were ready, trained and motivated. In the warm-up areas and on the pool slopes there was that silent nervousness that precedes great moments.

The perfect golf course is one that combines a great technical difficulty design with the natural beauty that surrounds it.

In theory, the UN is the ideal multinational organisation to have good basketball players.