SAINT PETERSBURG (30/05/2013) The deputy mayor of Wroclaw, Poland, Wojciech Adamski, and the new president of the local organizing committee, Pjotr Przygonski, visited the exhibition stand of the host city of The World Games 2017 and the International World Games Association during the SportAccord Convention in Saint Petersburg, Russia, on Wednesday and Thursday. Together with IWGA President Ron Froehlich and CEO Joachim Gossow they coordinated the next steps in the preparation of the 10th edition of this multi-sport event.
Pjotr Przygonski also received information about the talks that Hanna Domagala, General Director of the LOC, and Grzegorz Pyzalka, Sport Manager, had held during the meeting in Russia of the International Sports Federations. “We have already talked to most of the member federations of the IWGA and got some initial indications about how to present their sports optimally”, said the LOC president, describing the experiences of his delegation.
Hanna Domagala had already talked about how preparations were going during the IWGA’s Annual General Meeting in Saint Petersburg on Monday. She opened her presentation with a joke: “We are ready”, she said, but then added: “No, we are not ready because we first need to have all of you in Wroclaw.”
Wojciech Adamski, referring to Wroclaw’s participation as host city of The World Games 2017 in the SportAccord Convention exhibition said: “This meeting is important for us because all the top representatives from the world of sports are here. This means we have to be here as well. Being the host of The World Games is both a challenge and an opportunity for our city.”
Wroclaw, in the west of Poland, is a university city with more than 700.000 inhabitants. Wroclaw was one of the host cities of the Euro 2012 and will be the European Capital of Culture in 2016.