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President of Ukraine meets National Youth Olympic Team
President of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych has met with Ukrainian team that took part in the First Youth Olympics. The President congratulated young athletes on magnificent performance in Singapore, noting that the third place, our team took in the unofficial standings was the highest achievement we could expect. He said 35 medals, of which 10 gold, 9 silver and 16 bronze is an outstanding success. Viktor Yanukovych presented souvenirs, including watches, to the winners Youth of 2010 Youth Olympics. From their part, young athletes presented President Yanukovych with the flag of our country, signed by all members of the Youth Olympic Team of Ukraine.
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Youth Olympic Games are over
Today the first-ever Youth Olympic Games was declared closed in Singapore. 3 522 athletes (1846 boys and 1676 girls) aged 14-18 were delegated to the Games by 204 countries of the world. Within 12 days young athletes competed in 26 Olympic sports for 201 sets of medals. Ukraine was represented at that prestigious competition by 55 young Olympians who competed in 18 sports and have won 35 medals including 10 gold, 9 silver and 16 bronze. A number of our athletes will bring home several awards at once. Thus, the real heroes of the Youth Olympiad became a gymnast Oleg Stepko, who has won two gold and two silver medals and a two times Olympic champion in swimming Andriy Govorov. And his teammate Daryna Zevina "collected" a complete set of medals. Anastasia Spas (modern pentathlon), Oleksandr Bondar (diving), Anatoly Melnyk (kayak and canoe), Ksenia Darchuk (judo) are brining home a collection of two medals from Singapore. However, in addition to sports program of the Games the young athletes participated in the exciting events of Cultural and Educational program, which...
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IAAF Forum Was Over in Kyiv
On August 8 the International Association of Athletics Federations Council meeting was over in Kyiv. The prominent athletics personalities from 33 countries of the world gathered for their meeting for two days in the capital of Ukraine. The IAAF Council meeting, held on August 7 and 8, was preceded by the IAAF Commissions meetings and a number of meetings of the IAAF President Mr Lamine Diack with the state and government officials of our country. In particular, just upon arrival to Ukraine Mr. Diack met with the President of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych, who awarded the world athletics leader with the First Class Order of Merit. The next day, the IAAF leader discussed the prospects of development and popularization of "the Queen of Sports" on the territory of Ukraine during his meeting with the Deputy Prime Minister Boris Kolesnikov and the Minister of Ukraine for Family, Youth and Sports Ravil Safiullin. Today at a press conference the IAAF President Lamine Diack, the IAAf Senior Vice-President Sergey Bubka and the IAAF General Secretary Pierre Weiss informed on the...
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Ukraine sent off its National Youth Team to Singapore
Today in Kyiv Kreschaty park under the Peoples Friendship Arch the Ukrainian sports fans sent off the National Youth Team to its first Olympic trial. In a week Singapore will welcome the Ist Youth Olympic Games, which participants will be about 3 600 the world's best young athletes aged 14-18. Among them are 55 young Ukrainians who will compete for Olympic medals in 18 of the 26 sports. Not only the fierce sports battles but exciting events of the Cultural and Educational program, which distinguishes the Youth Olympics from the traditional – for "adults", are waiting for them in Singapore. Aiming to unite young people around the Olympic principles of Perfection, Friendship and Respect as well as to help young athletes to succeed in sport and in life, the International Olympic Committee in cooperation with the SYOGOC has developed seven interesting formats of the program, which participants will be all Olympians without any exception. On August 14 in honour of the opening of the Youth Forum the Olympic flame will be lit in the bowl of floating stadium The Float @ Marina...
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XXII Summer Olympic Games Medalists – 30 years after
The celebration in honor of the XXII Summer Olympic Games Medalists was held in Kiev (Ukraine) on July, 21st. Initiated and organized by the National Olympic Committee and the Ministry of Ukraine for Family, Youth and Sport, this event assembled 35 Ukrainian Olympians to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the 1980 Moscow Games. Holding this celebration in Kiev was quite symbolic as it was one of the cities outside Moscow that co-hosted the Olympic competitions three decades ago. From July 19th to August 3rd, 1980, in the capital of the former USSR, 92 Ukrainians competed as a part of the Soviet Olympic Team, 41 of them taking the top step of the podium, 19 – winning silver medals an 18 – finishing with a bronze. Now the majority of them are still involved in the sports development in Ukraine, while their lives serve as prime examples for younger generations of athletes. Among those who attended the celebration dinner were Bohdan Makyts, Stela Zakharova, Volodymyr Kyseliov, Serhiy Postrekhin, Tetiana Prorochenko, Sergiy Fesenko, Olga Zubarieva, Valentyna Lutaieva, Iryna...
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Olympism Birthday Was Celebrated in Kyiv
On 19 June Ukraine's capital celebrated Olympic Day, unique mass sport celebration that is traditionally held on the occasion of the establishment of the International Olympic Committee (23 June 1894), and this year it was also devoted to the 20th anniversary of the National Olympic Committee of Ukraine foundation (22 December 1990). Having started in Hydro Park with the race of the Ministry of Interior staff, the celebration moved to the main square of Kyiv. Here the President of the National Olympic Committee, Olympic champion Mr. Sergey Bubka and Minister of Ukraine for Family, Youth and Sports Mr. Ravil Safiullin congratulated Kyivites and guests of the city on the main holiday of sport and Olympism. Ukrainian sport leaders conveyed warm greetings and wishes on the occasion of Olympic Day from the President of Ukraine Mr. Viktor Yanukovych, Prime Minister Mr. Mykola Azarov and Parliament Speaker Mr. Volodymyr Lytvyn. Traditional athletics runs, which then began at Independence Square, gathered about 2500 participants from kids to seniors. Preschoolers, schoolchildren and...
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The NOCs of Ukraine and Macedonia Signed The Agreement For Sports Cooperation
The NOC of Ukraine President Sergey Bubka and the NOC of Macedonia President Vasil Tupurkovski signed the agreement for sports cooperation yesterday, in Skopje (Republic of Macedonia). According to its articles the countries expressed the determination to give to each other best possible support, in any occasion that may appear, and to encourage the National Sport Federations to coordinate their actions and foster their bilateral cooperation in the area of Olympic sport. The NOCs will dedicate sole attention to the development and promotion of the exchange and cooperation of sport experts and sport knowledge in the area of Top-level sport, Sport administration and in the promotion and improvement of sport performance of the athletes of the both countries using each other’s sport infrastructure and sport facilities. The two centers of Olympic movement will encourage mutual exchange of experts and cooperation between the experts in the field of Sport science, Sport medicine and Anti-Doping programs. The Agreement for sport cooperation will be valid in a period of four year...
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I Youth Olympic Games were presented in Gymnasium
The great celebration devoted to the 1st Youth Olympic Games ever took place in the gymnasium “Potential” in Kyiv today. Among those who came to the school to take part in the unique show dedicated to the YOG -2010 were the NOC of Ukraine President, the Chairman of the IOC Coordination Commission for the Games Sergey Bubka, the Young Ambassador of Ukraine Iryna Merleni, Olympic champions and medallists Elbrus Tedeiev, Vadym Gutsait, Olena Govorova and Anna Sorokina. The grand performance staged by the gymnasium pupils introduced to the spectators the inaugural Olympic competitions for young athletes which in less then 100 days will start in Singapore and the culture of the countries that will delegate their sportsmen for the participation in this unique event. The kaleidoscope of lifestyles and sporting traditions, national languages and costumes and even national dishes of the European, Asian, African, American and Australian countries was presented to the guests. “It’s great to see that day by day the YOG gain more and more popularity in Ukraine, among the Ukrainian...
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