20 sports federations confirm interest in European Olympic Games
Around 20 international sports federations have confirmed their participation at the first European Olympic Games to be held in Baku in 2015, Trend news agency reported.
Today the 20, including federations of handball, volleyball, rugby, boxing, judo, equestrian, badminton, taekwondo, archery, fencing, canoeing, table tennis and wrestling have confirmed their participation at the European games, Azerbaijani Minister of Youth and Sports Azad Rahimov told media on Tuesday.
He added that Azerbaijan has made a proposal to include the karate.
It is expected a decision will be made by the end of the next week about participation of the federation on water sports at the Games.
"All federations have verbally confirmed their participation," he said. "We are waiting for written confirmation and signing agreements with each of them."
It is planned to build a beach volleyball complex on Baku
Boulevard before the Games.
A decision was made to hold the first European Games in Baku at the
41st General Assembly of the European Olympic Committee on
Saturday.