A delegation representing the Kazan 2013 Executive Directorate, led by the general director Vladimir Leonov, has visited Singapore.

(Kazan, August 26, Tatar-inform). A delegation representing the Kazan 2013 Executive Directorate, led by the general director Vladimir Leonov, has visited Singapore.

The main purpose was to examine the Singaporean counterparts’s experience in preparing and hosting an international multisport event.

The executive directorate delegation took part in the Visitor programme, within which the organisers of the 1st youth Olympics presented the games to the guests and shared the experience of organisation.

The heads of sectors presented to the meeting the sports programme, sports facilities, transport infrastructure and logistics, medical and anti-doping provision, and the main control and technical centre’s infrastructure. The Singapore games’s organisers noted they had highlighted educational and cultural programmes, advertising the Olympic values, including through promoting the fair play principle and non-use of doping substances. The main difficulty, the organisers said, was a tight schedule of the preparation for the inaugural games. Besides, the sports programme that included 26 events had been changed.

By the end of the day the game hosts gave recommendations to the Tatar delegation.

On the second day, the delegates visited the Olympic village, explored its structure and the sports facilities used in the youth Olympics. The World Culture Village set up in the Olympic village and designed to present the national culture of each participant country was of special interest to the delegates.

Singapore had won the right to host the 1st Youth Olympic Games in 2008, taking over Moscow, Turin and Athens. A total of 3,600 athletes take part in the Olympic Games, representing 205 national Olympic committees, 1,700 officials, 2,000 mass media people, 3,000 members of the IOC and 20 thousand volunteers. A total of 370,000 tickets had been sold at the games. Singapore attaches great importance to the games, first of all as a way to promote sport and the Olympic ideals. Three sport federations were set up in the run-up to the Olympic Games in Singapore.
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