President entrusted national flag to standard-bearer of Kazakhstan Olympic team, double world boxing champion Serik Sapiyev
Astana. July 15. Kazakhstan Today - The President of Kazakhstan, Nursultan Nazarbayev, entrusted national flag to the captain and the standard-bearer of the Kazakhstan Olympic team, double world boxing champion Serik Sapiyev in the president residence Ak Orda during the solemn ceremony, the agency reports.
He said that "Beijing Olympiad has special importance for Kazakhstan." "As you are aware, for the first time in history the Olympic torch was here, in Almaty, in Kazakhstan Medeu. Multinational people of our country for the first time has met and given blessing to Olympic torch," the leader of the state said.
"I am assured that this Olympic mission will open a new way of development of Kazakhstan sports in XXI century," N. Nazarbayev emphasized.
The leader of the state reminded that Kazakhstan sportsmen won 132 licenses for participation in Olympic Games in Beijing in 22 kinds of sports.
XXIX Summer Olympic Games in Beijing will be held on August 8 - 24, 2008. 302 sets of medals in 41 kinds of sports will be awarded. More than 10.5 thousand sportsmen from 203 countries of the world are planned to take part in the Games.
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