Minsk 2019 star ambassador Darya Domracheva has taken part in a karate demonstration as part of the organisers "Bright Team" project.
European Olympic Committees (EOC) President Janez Kocijančič believes that the European Games and the European Championships in their quadrennial multi-sport form can happily co-exist.
Belarus have claimed plans are in place to ensure swift border crossing during the Minsk 2019 European Games.
Russian police officers will be drafted in to help with the security operation at next year's European Games in Minsk, it has been announced.
The European Olympic Committees (EOC) confirmed here today that it has launched the candidature process for the 3rd edition of the European Games in 2023, and expects to name a host before the 2nd edition begins in Minsk next June.
The tender process for the third European Games, originally set for the European Olympic Committees (EOC) General Assembly in Marbella later this year, is due to take place instead at the organisation's Executive Committee meeting here tomorrow.
More than 300 athletes have taken part in an international freestyle wrestling event in Minsk, as preparations continue before the second European Games in the city in 2019.
Cyclists representing the Minsk 2019 European Games Organising Committee were among those to take part in a cross-border "international ride of friendship".
European marathon champion Volha Mazuronak has become the latest "star ambassador" for the Minsk 2019 European Games.
The National Olympic Committee of the Republic of Belarus invited schoolchildren to their headquarters to attend an "Olympic lesson" as Minsk prepares to host the 2019 European Games.
Aliaksandr Bahdanovich, the canoe sprint athlete who won gold in the C2 1,000 metres at the 2008 Olympic Games and is now deputy of the House of Representatives of the National Assembly of the Republic of Belarus, has been named as an ambassador for the Minsk 2019 European Games.
More than 30,000 people lined up today for races associated with the Minsk half marathon, the crowning event of one of the busiest sports weekends of the year in the Belarus capital.
One of the most famous wrestlers of the 20th century, the triple Olympic gold medallist Aleksandr Medved, is to be added to the list of Star Ambassadors for Minsk 2019.
The tender process for the third European Games could be launched as soon as this month at a meeting of European Olympic Committees (EOC) top brass in Stockholm.
European Olympic Committees (EOC) Coordination Commission chairman Spyros Capralos has heaped praise on the venues that will be used for the second European Games in Minsk next year, while urging organisers to accelerate the process of local recruitment.
At the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, Iranian judoka Arash Miresmaeili was disqualified for weighing in at nearly four pounds above the limit for his weight class of his under-66 kilograms match against an Israeli opponent Ehud Vaks in the first round. It was claimed Miresmaeili had gone on an eating binge to protest the International Olympic Committee's recognition of the state of Israel. Iran does not recognise the state of Israel, and Miresmaeili's actions won praise from high-ranking Iranian officials. Mohammad Khatami, the country's President at the time, was quoted as saying Miresmaili's actions would be "recorded in the history of Iranian glories". He was later awarded $125,000 by the Government - the same amount given to Olympic gold medallists.
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