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12:40
2002-04-29
OLYMPIC GAMES IN BAGHDAD! RUSSIAN
SPORTSMEN PARTICIPATED FOR THE FIRST
TIME On Sunday, Saddam Hussein
celebrated his 65th birthday. However, most citizens rejoiced due to
another reason: the Olympic Games came to Baghdad, the Olympic Games
of Saddam.
The event has mostly been neglected by Russian
and Western mass media, while, in one of the hottest spots of the
world, sportsmen from 72 countries arrived.
According to the
Novaya Gazeta weekly, the games included seven the most
popular kinds of sport in Iraq: football, Greco-Rome wrestling,
volleyball, free standing exercises, shooting, boxing, and table
tennis. The games are held yearly (since 1998) and are dedicated to
Saddam Hussein’s birthday. The sponsor of the games is the Baghdad
Russian-Iraqi Friendship Society. It should be mentioned that the
athletes' stay in Baghdad is fully paid for by Iraq.
This
event is interesting because Russian sportsmen participates in these
games for the first time. According to the Russian delegation’s
leader, Deputy Chief of the Moscow Sport Committee’s Sport Office
Andrei Goryachev, 25 Russian athletes participates in the Olympic
Games, not taking into account trainers and officials. Russian
sportsmen intend to win medals in boxing, free standing exercises,
shooting, and table tennis. The delegations that came to the games
obviously shows its support to the long-suffering Iraqi people.
Therefore, it is pleasant that, among that athletes, there are also
Russian citizens.
The Iraqi President does not intend to
limit himself with only these Olympic Games. Last month, Iraq joined
to the fight to hold the 2012 Olympic Game by preparing an official
application to the International Olympic Committee (while these will
be anniversary games, the 30th ones). Hussein is very serious about
these plans. In particular, the Iraqi authorities intend to build a
stadium to seat 100-thousand people in Baghdad, which should become
the center of the city.
Sergei Stefanov PRAVDA.Ru
Translated by Vera Solovieva
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original in Russian: http://pravda.ru/main/2002/04/27/40439.html
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