International Children's Games Committee President: "We will try to surprise guests and residents of Ufa in 2019"

UFA, 26 June 2018. /Bashinform News Agency, Natalia Ovcharuk/ translated by Tatiana Aksyutina/. On June 26, a delegation of the International Children's Games (ICG) visited the capital of Bashkortostan again to discuss details and listen to new proposals for the Games that Ufa will host in the summer of 2019.

The members of the organizing committee together with the Head of Bashkiria Chief of Staff Evgeny Mavrin and other representatives of the republic held a meeting where they discussed a number of important issues.

The president of the ICG committee Thorsten Rush noted the fact that Bashkiria’s 100th anniversary would coincide with the year of the International Children's Games. He expressed his hope that after the games the republic would attract more Russian cities to the sport and international communication. At the moment, the organizing committee consists of representatives of more than 600 cities from 95 countries.

Ufa is a partner and member of the International Children's Games organizing committee since 2011. This year Bashkiria will present its athletes at the Summer Games in Jerusalem. It is also planned that the children from Ufa will go to ICG in the USA in the winter of next year. Especially the organizing committee expects a hockey team from our republic since this sport is very popular in Russia.

"We understand that in the near future a large-scale preparation work for the Summer International Children's Games is ahead. The important thing is that over the 50-year history of ICG (the anniversary is celebrated in 2018) Ufa will become the only city in history that will host both summer and winter games", Rush noted. "Every time we come to your republic, we feel at home here. Therefore, I would like to express special gratitude to every member of the organizing committee and the head of Bashkiria Rustam Khamitov, who supports us".

On June 26, the ICG committee will sign an agreement on holding summer games in Ufa in 2019 in the city administration.

It should be noted that more than two thousand young athletes will arrive in Ufa in 2019. According to the head of the region Rustem Khamitov, "the infrastructure of the republic allows accommodating that large number of guests and even by two, and three times more, taking into account fans, accompanying persons and parents".