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News & egrave; It was ignored by Western news agencies, but the weekend Russia and China have reached an agreement of fundamental importance in view of the Winter Olympic Games in Beijing in 2022.
Tuesday 13 October 2015 4 minutes reading time
At the sixteenth session of the Committee for the Sino-Russian cooperation humanistic, held over the weekend in Xi''an in northwest China, the Chinese vice premier Liu Yandong and his Russian counterpart Olga Golodets signed a memorandum on the XXIV Olympic Winter Games .
This document, contract dall''Amministrazione General State of Sport (the 'organ in China directs all sports federations and the Olympic Committee) and the Ministry of Sports of Russia, provides for the creation of "a joint working group of Russian -Chinese and shared research in the field of top-level sport, "as reported dall''agenzia Tass.
What this means in practice smoky sentence he has explained precisely Liu Yandong said that "Russia supporter & agrave; China with organizing the Winter Olympics 2022. In addition we will create groups of athletes and technical staff combined to increase the level of winter sports in China ".
In other words China appogger & agrave; the know-how of Russia both in terms of logistics and sport. In return, the Russians will benefit from being a privileged partner of the organizing country, with its advantages in terms of knowledge of the installations where the competitions will be held.
Sar & agrave; interesting to see in the coming months in such disciplines will manifest & agrave; most of this joint venture.
Surely there are snow sports such as biathlon and ski jumping, in which China has a base in embryo or a tradition to revive. At the same time on the ice in the recent past c '' & egrave; who spoke about the possible & agrave; development of the movement in the figure skating of China by the 'hiring of foreign technicians.
It rises also a spontaneous reflection. There are areas where & egrave; China to be more & ugrave; ahead of Russia (short track and aerials to give two examples). They will create partnerships in these sports, where the Russians would rather benefit from the know-how of China and therefore would have a return to the 'assistance extended in other areas?
The years to come will respond to these questions. Surely c '' & egrave; that a partnership between sporting superpowers, rivals only in a few fields, it would bring benefits to both countries, especially considering how the plan is a long-term Since & eacute; Beijing 2,022 missing almost six years and a half.
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