After re -electing the president of European gymnastics at Congress in Portuguese Albuyir, Farid Gaibov shared his impressions with Haqqin.az.
Recall, Farid Gaibov received one hundred percent of the vote – 44 out of 44 possible.
“As you know, the first time I was elected five years ago, – says the Minister of Youth and Sports of Azerbaijan.” They elected me for four years, but because of the pandemic of last year’s Congress of European gymnastics, it was transferred for this year. Therefore This time I was chosen for a period of three years.
Over the past five years, we managed to mark ourselves with several innovations. And today we see that not a single European Federation has nominated its candidate for the presidential post. This suggests that we are satisfied with our work, evaluate it highly.
We will continue to develop European gymnastics. The necessary experience is for this, for which I am immensely grateful to the Azerbaijani gymnastics Federation, led by Mehriban Aliyeva, where I worked for many years. I thank the President of Azerbaijan, the head of the National Olympic Committee Ilham Aliyev. This year, NOC celebrates the 30th anniversary, and I think my election will be a good gift. I hope that representatives of our other sports federations will be elected to leading posts in international and European organizations.
Once again, I will say that I was elected in 2017 thanks to my experience in the Azerbaijani gymnastics Federation. Our federation has always been very active and stably recognized as the best or 0 of the best in the world. We have a national gymnastic arena that has no analogues in the world. We have vast experience in international competitions. In 2002, when Mehriban Aliyev was elected by the president of the federation, we started from scratch. There were no specialists or athletes. Now we are holding world and European championships, and our federation is among the leaders. Azerbaijani gymnastics Federation is an active player in the international arena. “
Speaking about plans for the coming for three years, Farid Gaibov said: “In order to sell our product to television, we must constantly come up with something new. We want to make the format of European championships more interesting. In addition, we think about holding European Cups. These ideas So far on paper, but in the coming years we will try to realize these ideas. “