Kazakh PM instructed to prepare for Winter World University Games in 2017

ASTANA. December 4. KAZINFORM Prime Minister of Kazakhstan Serik Akhmetov instructed sports and educational authorities of the country, region's governors to begin preparation for the XXVIII Winter World University Games, scheduled on 2017 in Kazakhstan.
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As the Kazakh Prime Minister stressed, this issues are important for all regions.

"I assign the Ministry of Education and Science of Kazakhstan, the Agency of Sport and Physical Education together with the governors of the regions, and mayors of cities of Astana and Almaty to take all necessary steps to prepare and train sports reserve of the country," S. Akhmetov said.

According to the Minister of Education of Kazakhstan Bakytzhan Zhumagulov, such sports as figure skating, short track speed skating, alpine  skiing, snowboarding,  biathlon, cross country skiing, ice hockey and curling  will be presented at the Winter World University Games.

In addition, the host country has the right to include another four types. Preliminary there were proposed: ski jumping, Nordic skiing, speed skating and freestyle. "The analysis showed that in these sports, we have a certain reserve and prospective athletes,"  the Minister added.

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