Accreditation underway for FIG World Challenge Cup
The country delegations are receiving their accreditations for
the FIG World Challenge Cup in Artistic Gymnastics, which will be
held from February 19 to 21 in Baku.
The teams of Azerbaijan, Uzbekistan, Brazil, Iran, Israel, Japan,
Spain, Sweden and Ukraine are already accredited.
National Gymnastics Arena and the corresponding services of
Azerbaijan Gymnastics Federation (AGF) are getting prepared to host
the guests from 19 countries.
World cup is an important event in the world gymnastics, thus the
International Federation of Gymnastics (FIG) will send to Baku its
representative – member of the Technical Committee in Men’s
Artistic Gymnastics from Germany, Holger Albrecht, who follows the
course of the events with German precision and controls the
objectivity of judges in this subjective sports discipline.
President of the FIG Technical Committee in Women’s Artistic
Gymnastics, Olympic Champion Nellie Kim will also visit Baku.
The Baku tournament will be in the limelight of local and foreign
mass media. It is expected that the World Cup will widely be
covered in Japan, which delegates a team of reporters and
television journalists.
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