Olympic Committee's roundtable talks to shape Polish sports future?
PR dla Zagranicy
Veronika Joy
12.03.2013 10:30
After ten medals were brought home to Poland after the London Summer Olympics, the Polish Olympic Committee aim to prepare a plan of organizational and financial changes of Polish sports.
Polish Olympic Committee roundtable talks in Olympic centre in Warsaw PAP/EPA/Paweł Supernak
"We would like the Polish Olympic Committee to be this platform of expressing opinions of the whole sport community in Poland. We would like to offer concrete solutions, but not decisions as we do not have such power," said in the opening session, Andrzej Kraśnicki, the secretary-general of the Polish Olympic Committee (PKOL).
The committe plans to give recommendations for the government, big corporations, and parents, at least. The session was attended, among others, by the Minsiter of Sport Anna Mucha, the Chairman of the Cabinet Jan Krzysztof Bielecki, the president of the Council of Sponsors at the Polish Olympic Committee and one of Poland's wealthiest businessmen Jan Kulczyk as well as former professional athletes, including snowboarder Jagna Marczułajtis, sailor Mateusz Kusznierewicz and high jumper and two times Olympic medalist Artur Partyka. Danuta Isler reports.