Russian Sports Minister Oleg Matytsin met the Union Minister for Youth and Sports, Anurag Thakur, here in the state capital on Wednesday.
Both ministers met to discuss cooperation between Russia and India in the field of sports. Besides them, the Russian Ambassador to India Denis Alipov was also present at the meeting.
Oleg Matytsin visited New Delhi to attend a meeting of the Presidium of the eighth session of the Conference of the Parties to the International Convention against Doping in Sport.
Previously, Anurag Thakur was also present at the torch relay ceremony of the 44th Chess Olympiad in Dharamshala, Himachal Pradesh. He accepted the torch and presented it to Grandmaster Deep Sengupta.
Leh hosted the first-ever torch relay of the 44th Chess Olympiad on Monday. The flare, launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday, began its relay from Leh.
The torch will travel through 75 cities for 40 days before culminating in Mahabalipuram in Tamil Nadu. 189 countries take part in the Chess Olympiad. Chess grandmasters receive the torch at various designated locations. Grandmaster Dibyendu Barua brought the torch from Delhi and passed it to LG RK Mathur to start the relay from Leh.
This year, for the first time ever, the International Chess Federation FIDE introduced the Chess Olympiad Torch, which is part of the Olympic tradition but was never performed at the Chess Olympiad. India will be the very first country to host the Chess Olympiad Torch Relay.
The 44th edition of the world’s largest chess event will take place from July 28th to August 10th in Mahabalipuram near Chennai.
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