Visitors can get acquainted with the preparations for the First European Olympic Games.
Official profile site opened on the eve www.baku2015.com, almost immediately after the meeting of the Organizing Committee. Then start was given to the program "700 days to the Olympics."
The bilingual resource ( in Azeri and English) provides full information about the participants of games, the geographical location of the country, the development of local sport and its infrastructure. There are other sorts of information about the international sport event, scheduled for the period from 12 to 28 June 2015.
At the press conference, Azad Rahimov, the Minister of Youth and Sports, said that presumably in the Games will participate 6351 people in 19 kinds of sports. The program includes wrestling, archery, swimming, water polo, diving, athletics, badminton, basketball, "three for three." The organizers provided boxing, canoeing, cycling, beach soccer, gymnastics, judo, karate, shooting, table tennis, taekwondo, triathlon and fencing. Of these three types the beach soccer, karate and basketball "three by three" are not Olympic
According to the President of the European Olympic Committee (EOC) Patrick Hikeya, the number of participants in the Olympic Games may eventually be corrected, and participation of all European countries in the Games is expected.
A number of cities have already put forward their candidacy to host the Second European Olympic Games to be held in 2019. --17D-
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