Baku confident of being ready for European Games

BANGKOK: capital of Azerbaijan is facing a race against the clock to be able to host next year´s inaugural European Games with thousands of construction employees scrambling round the clock to urge all the facilities finished.

Just 1 / 4 of the sixteen venues are completed however organisers ar assured everything are going to be prepared before the gap ceremony on June twelve, 2015.Given but 3 years to arrange for the Games when the ecu Olympic Committee awarded the rights to capital of Azerbaijan in December 2012, the Azerbajdzhan Republic capital was continuously facing a Herculean task.

But with 4,000 individuals presently operating twenty four hours every day simply on the sixty eight,000-seater new national construction, organisers say they need no doubts capital of Azerbaijan can meet the point.

"I´m unbelievably assured," capital of Azerbaijan 2015 Chief operational Officer Simon cleg same before a presentation on the city´s accomplish the Association of National Olympic Committees (ANOC) on Sat. "This isn't a problem, I even have no issues in the least.

"Let´s simply say they lay concrete terribly quickly in Azerbajdzhan Republic."Clegg, at one time the British Olympic Association´s 1st chief govt, same the previous Soviet republic was one in all the few countries that had the cash and therefore the can to organise a serious multi-sports event at short notice however future hosts would run longer.

Although he wouldn't say that cities had indicated they needed to stage the 2019 edition, he same the host town would be proclaimed early next year and wouldn't ought to pay the maximum amount as oil and gas-producing Azerbajdzhan Republic has.

"We required a rustic that had vital resources and conjointly enough vision and motivation for hosting these Games, that Europe has ne'er had up so far," he said. "So this can be the big-bang moment for the ecu Games.

"The figure has not been created public however what I will tell you is that we´re disbursement a lot of on these Games than resultant organisers can have to be compelled to owing to the very fact no-one is aware of regarding this, thus we´re disbursement plenty a lot of on promoting and promotion of the event that future events can ought to.

"Despite the time constraints, cleg same all the first signs were positive for the ecu Games.Organisers had to show away fourteen completely different sports that needed to be concerned when deciding to place a cap of twenty for the primary edition.

They have already signed up six major sponsors and ar an in depth to a deal on a seventh, going only one a lot of spot obtainable when deciding to limit the commanding partnerships to eight.

Organisers have conjointly completed most of their tv broadcast details, not solely in Europe, and ar in advanced stages of negotiating with future hosts. (Reuters)