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National Olympic Committee Vice-President: Still Early Speak about Kind of Sports Azerbaijan to First Present in 2008 Olympic Games

Society Materials 12 August 2006 13:27 (UTC +04:00)

It is still difficult to speak about kind of sports Azerbaijan will present for the first time in the Olympic Games, the Vice-President of the national Olympic Committee of Azerbaijan Chingiz Husseynzadeh told Trend commenting the possibility of widening of the national delegation to the main sport event of the four years the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games.

According to him, Azerbaijan virtually has such a possibility, but it is too early to concrete speak about this topic. For example, we have intensions concerning cycle racing and equestrian taking into account that our equestrian Jamal Rahimov took the second place in the last Europe Championships. Simply we need these ideas to be elaborated, pointed out Ch. Husseynzadeh.

It should be mentioned that earlier Youth and Sports Minister Azad Rahimov told that the national team of Azerbaijan would be presented in 10-15 kinds of sports in Beijing.

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