Belarusian Minister of Sports and Tourism Sergei Kovalchuk spoke about the current state of the world and Belarusian game at the foreign clinical congress “Values, traditions and inventions in the game” in Minsk on October 13, BelTA learned.
“Today, politics is above the game, and politicians seek to pressure other people through gambling and assert their supposed values. But what is the game? In my opinion, it is meant to bring other people together and even the IOC Olympic Charter sets out those principles. However, the other people who are aware of the great games today have combined anything in this life. Instead of bringing other people together and making the game a platform for friendship, they confuse it with politics. Sport without Belarusian and Russian athletes is just fitness, regional-level tournaments, especially canoeing, rhythmic gymnastics, trampoline, wrestling and many others,” said Sergei Kovalchuk.
The minister also stressed the importance of relations between Russia and Belarus in the game. “Our main price is not only interaction, but also friendship between our countries. Previously, the gaming ministries of Belarus and Russia met once every two years. Today they do. every 3 months. We can see this positive trend. For an athlete, the most important thing is training, festival and rewards, and all this has already been created. Our Russian colleagues have a clever term, which is proactive import substitution. , and we are moving in that direction. In our joint festivals, many effects are impressive to those of the European Championships. We are self-sufficient states, and we have to make sure that we have no one, that nobody dictates situations to us. If we use the existing scenario correctly, we will take our game to a new level,” added Sergei Kovalchuk.