Athletistic / Others. The President of the Russian Federation, Vladimir Putin, gave an interview to China Media Corporation. He talks about the interest of Chinese fans in Russian sport.

“Humanitarian and sports cooperation is of great value to the friendship between Russia and China. Sports cooperation within the framework of humanitarian interaction is very important, because it directly establishes people-to-people contacts. The fact that sports fans of Russian athletes appear in China is not surprising. , because we have bright stars In Russia, we follow the successes of Chinese athletes with great respect, we always look at how their work is organized.

Of course, we know Chinese athletes. We know gymnasts and other disciplines. It is important that in China, work in the field of high-level sport is organized at a good professional level. But it is no less important to establish contacts at a more modest level – at the level of physical culture, at the level of regions, at the level of competitions between universities, between provinces and constituent entities of our countries.

Do you know what’s important? That our sports interaction is devoid of all kinds of not only political, but also economic conditions. Unfortunately, today’s international sport is increasingly immersed in commercialism. But there is no such thing in our sports relations and I hope there never will be,” Putin said on the Kremlin’s official website.

Russia hosted the Sochi Winter Olympics in 2014. In the past 15 years, China has hosted the Games twice: in 2008, Beijing hosted the Summer Olympics, and in 2022, the capital of the Celestial Empire hosted the Winter Olympic Games.


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