Aliaksandr Lukashenka has fired Sports Minister Alieh Kachan and Ihar Zaichkou, presidential aide for sports, over Belarus’ poor results at this summer’s London Olympics, the presidential press office said.
Speaking at the Olympic Assembly held in Minsk on October 26, Lukashenka, who is simultaneously president of the National Olympic Committee (NOC), said that Kachan and Zaichkou, who is also a NOC vice president, and the two other NOC vice presidents, Siarhiej Ciacieryn and Hienadz Aliaksiejenka, were personally responsible for the country's poor Olympic performance, BelaPAN informs.
“One may be 99 per cent sure when saying that appropriate edicts [providing for the officials' dismissal] will be signed. Summing up the meeting, the president said that the sphere would be led by other people,” a senior official who attended the four-hour meeting told BelaPAN on condition of anonymity.
On October 26, Lukashenka attended the meeting of the National Olympic Committee of Belarus (NOC). There, he called the performance of the Belarusian National Olympic Team “a failure” as Belarusians won only 12 Olympic medals out of 25 which was the minimum limit set by Lukashenka. Moreover, five of the medals were required to be gold.
As Lukashenka mentioned at the meeting, so close attention is paid to sports as sport is the part of big economics.
“I want you to understand one thing: everything should be fair and honest. For me personally and for the state sports is a great thing, it is part of big economics,” he said.
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