11/08/2019 16:35

XX Winter Olympic Games

[IMG=19042-4690] Opening ceremony of the XX Winter Olympic Games will be held on February 10th. ITAR TASS reported that, according to Vladislav Tretyak, Chairman of Sport Committee of the State Duma, Russian athletes have all chances to be among the winners in bobsleigh, figure skating, skiing, biathlon and women’s speed skating. Wide broadcast of the event will allow both travel agents and top managers of Russian travel companies watch Russian athletes’ performance even during working time. ‘It is the greatest sport event, which I can’t miss. I will follow the competition on-line, on the official site of the Olympics’, commented Igor Selivanov, Director of Moscow Travel Agency Treasure Island. Furthermore, Tatiana Surdgikova, the Head of Sport and Event Department Of UTS Group, said: ‘although many people in our company are interested in sport, nobody will go to Turin. Personally I am interested in our national hockey team performance, as the popularity of 2006 IIHF World Championship in Riga will depend on the Olympic results’ However, for some travel companies the period of the Olympic Games will turn out to be hard work. For example, Lyubov Sinitsiana, Director of Travel Agency Olympic Panorama, pointed out: ‘we send sport fans to the Olympics every day, therefore we are too busy to follow the events’. A propos, many travel agents interviewed by a BANKO correspondent did not show the interest in the Olympic Games. But it is small wonder as mainly women rule the travel business in Russia.