Today, on May 31, in St. Petersburg the International convention of SportAccord finishes work. About the main objectives of Russia on this forum the special correspondent of Agency of sports information "All sports" was told by the member of executive committee of the Russian Olympic Committee, the Olympic champion in skating sports Svetlana Zhurova who also is the deputy of the State Duma of the Russian Federation.

"On SportAccord we had one main objective, - Svetlana Zhurova told. – Certainly, it is a question of wrestling preservation in the program of Olympic Games. The first step to our general pleasure to it is taken. At this forum it was possible already and not to discuss other questions (smiles). I joke, certainly. Actually, such serious international actions very positively influence image of the country. Practically all sporting world was these days in St. Petersburg! A row the major of decisions for the Olympic movement is accepted: recommendations about new types of the Olympic program were listened, the candidate cities on carrying out Olympic Games of 2020 were presented, passed a lot of the major meetings".

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