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Oslo (Norway), Almaty (Kazakhstan) and Beijing (China) will bid to host the 2022 Winter Olympic Games. The final date to file bids was in November. Krakow (Poland), Stockholm (Sweden) and Lviv (Ukraine) quit the campaign.Inspections to …
President of the Russian Olympic Committee Alexander Zhukov said today that Russia succeeded at the 21st Winter Olympic Games in Sochi, RIA Novosti reports.Russia won 33 medals (13 gold, 11 silver, 9 bronze), topping the medal list. Zhukov added that analysts will study performances at the Games per sports federation.
The Russian authorities have been working on a bill to simplify procedures for conferring nationality on CIS citizens, said Alexander Zhukov, Vice Speaker of the Lower House of the Russian Parliament and a member of the United Russia Party, …
President of the Russian Olympic Committee Alexander Zhukov said that Olympic sportsmen have positively assessed the conditions of the Olympic Games in Sochi. Zhukov said that all sports facilities are 100 % ready to host the Olympic Games.
Alexander Zhukov, Head of the Russian Olympic Committee, said at a presentation of the Russian team for the Sochi Olympics that the team was changed to maximize its potential.The team was expanded to 223 athletes. Two thirds of it were replaced with new athletes who had not taken part in Olympic Games. The average age of athletes dropped from 26 to 22. This will make the Russian team the youngest at the Games.
The presentation of the official uniform of the Olympic and Paralympic teams of Russia have taken place at GUM. The event was attended by Russian Olympic Committee President Alexander Zhukov, Deputy Minister of Sports of Russia Yuri Nagornykh, famous sportsmen and Olympic champions. The official delegation of the Russian Olympic team at the Olympic Games will consists of 750 members. The uniform has colors of the Russian flag - blue , white and red, is trimmed with real fur and decorated with folk ornaments.
Russian Vice Speaker of Parliament Alexander Zhukov expressed confidence that the Olympic Games in Sochi would be the best in history, RIA Novosti reports.He noted that the Games will be the most compact. All stadiums will be close to each other in the Imereti Valley. Some of the most advanced stadiums were built. All facilities were equipped for Paralympic athletes and handicapped spectators, as well as means of transportation and infrastructure.Zhukov added that the Games will be the most innovative, as admitted by the International Olympic Committee.
Thomas Bach, President of the International Olympic Committee, Jean-Claude Killy, head of the Sochi-2014 Coordinating Commission, Vitaly Smitnov, a member of the IOC, Dmitry Kozak, Russian Vice Prime Minister, Dmitry Chernyshenko, President …
Aeroflot (Russia) said that ticket prices for flights to Sochi will not rise in 2014, according to a deal signed by Alexander Zhukov, President of the Russian Olympic Committee, and Vitaly Savelyev, Director General of Aeroflot, RIA Novosti reports.Aeroflot plans to transport over 800 athletes and members of delegations and their luggage.
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President of the Russian Olympic Committee Alexander Zhukov summed up today the results of the 125th IOC Session, which made several crucial decisions, including the election of Tokya as the 2020 Olympic capital, and keeping wrestling in the Olympic program. Among other things, Thomas Bach was elected new president of the IOC, and Zhukov was elected a member of the International Olympic Committee representing Russia.
Background information in advance of Vladimir Putin's visit to Baku
Today Russia celebrates the XXIV All-Russian Olympic Day. All over the country various competitions and other sporting events will be held.
Russia scaled back its ambition to send the Sochi 2014 Olympic flame into space on Monday but promised the next best thing: an unlit torch aboard a rocket bound for the International Space Station, RIA Novosti reports.Russian Olympic Committee chief Alexander Zhukov suggested earlier this year efforts would be made to send the flame into space as part of its 123-day tour of Russia, beginning in October.
FILA President Nenad Lalovic said that wrestling will not be removed from the program of European Games in Baku in 2015.
Sagid Murtazaliev, the Russian Olympic champion from Dagestan who won gold in the 2000 Olympics in freestyle wrestling, is still going to give up the medal to protest against plans by the IOC to ban wrestling from the Olympic program. The Russian Olympic Committee is trying to persuade him not to give up his medal. Today ROC president Alexander Zhukov spoke against the return of Olympic medals by the Russian fighter, the parliament of Dagestan also
President of the Russian Olympic Committee (ROC) Alexander Zhukov told Interfax that the fate of ROC Vice President Ahmed Bilalov will be decided on February 19.Bilalov, Vice President of the ROC and chairman of the board of the Northern Caucasus Resorts, was criticized by Russian President Vladimir Putin, losing all positions.
Vice President of the Russian Olympic Committee (ROC) Ahmed Bilalov may be dismissed next week, Interfax cites Alexander Zhukov, head of the ROC, Vice Speaker of Parliament (United Russia).Vice Premier Dmitry Kozak said on February 7 that Russian President Vladimir Putin had ordered dismissal of Bilalov. The dismissal had been provoked by a two-day inspection Putin had had at the Olympic facilities of Sochi. The president had criticized functionaries responsible for construction of Russkiye Gorki.
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The president of the Russian Olympic Committee (ROC), Alexander Zhukov, saidthat Sochi will avoid the transportation difficulties faced by the guests andparticipants of the Olympic Games in London, RIA Novosti reports.Zhukov said that there is "a very big traffic problem" in London during the Olympic Games-2012. According to Zhukov, in Sochi there will beno major traffic problems."We have very much changed the infrastructure there: we have made 17-18interchanges, an alternative road to Kurortskiy Prospect and automobile
