언론보도
러시아 무술인 삼보가 드디어 올림픽종목에 진입하게 되었다.
FIAS obtained provisional
recognition of the International Olympic Committee
Official
30 November 2018
Aleksandr Solomahin
During the International Olympic Committee’s Executive Board meeting held
in Tokyo, Japan on 30 November 2018, provisional recognition was granted to the
International SAMBO Federation (FIAS) pursuant to Rule 25 of the Olympic
Charter. This is provisional recognition for a period up to three years
reflects the FIAS’s embrace of the values of the Olympic Charter. A letter with
relevant information and congratulations from the President of the IOC, Thomas
Bach, today arrived at the FIAS office.
Vasily Shestakov, President of the International Sambo Federation:
– Today the dream of sambists from all over the world came true – the sport
of sambo obtained provisional recognition of the International Olympic
Committee.
The long-awaited news, which came directly from the Land of the Rising Sun
from the meeting of the IOC Executive Committee in Tokyo, became a real
Christmas and New Year's gift to the entire sambo community. It is also
remarkable that this happened in the year of the 80th anniversary of sambo, two
weeks after the birthday of our favorite sport.
It was a long way to Olympic recognition of sambo: in the first World Sambo
Championships in Tehran in 1973 athletes from 11 countries took part, last year
in the World Championships in Sochi participated 90 countries from five
continents.
Currently there are several developing disciplines in sambo - sport sambo
for men and women, combat sambo, beach sambo, demonstrational sambo, which
proves that this is a truly popular public sport available to almost anyone.
Sambo stars such as Fedor Emelianenko and Khabib Nurmagomedov are the idols of
millions of people worldwide.
Today we have accomplished the big, and perhaps the most difficult step
forward. But there is still a lot of work ahead. The next step is to get the
permanent IOC recognition and then to be included in the program of the Olympic
Games. I'm sure we can handle it!
Once again I congratulate the sambists from all over the world. Together we
made sambo Olympic!
The letter from the IOC President Thomas Bach
