Delegations from the 2014 Winter Olympic bid cities Sochi and PyeongChang are off to Malawi to present their respective bids at the 23rd Seminar for General Secretaries of African National Olympic Committees in Blantyre Malawi being held November 8 to 10.
Sochi 2014 CEO Dmitry Chernyshenko said prior to departure, “each region of the world has its own particular wants and needs from an Olympic and Paralympic event and we are driven to ask what these are, from every nation, International Federation, and NOC. Our aim is to host the best Olympic Winter Games in history in 2014 and to do that we need to embrace the views of our contemporaries all around the globe”.
Kim Jin-sun, Executive President of PyeongChang 2014 and leader of the delegation said, “it is a privilege to be visiting Malawi to talk to such a distinguished audience about PyeongChang’s plans for hosting the 2014 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games”.
He added, “if PyeongChang is successful I am confident that we will be welcoming some outstanding winter sports athletes from Africa in 2014. If they come they can look forward to excellent conditions for competition, fine hospitality and a fantastic atmosphere”.
