FILA SITE_ On 22 and 23 October, the FILA President went to Thiès, Senegal with the development director to visit the FILA, Olympic Solidarity and Confejes scholarship holders who are training in the FILA international centre. The centre which first brought together 8 freestyle wrestlers trained by the Georgian coach, Vladimer Iashvili has been reinforced by the arrival of 10 female wrestlers from the centre in Tunis under the management of their coach, Ivan Ivanov.

FILA held the first session of the centre’s Board of Administration after one year’s operations and discussed different issues to be settled in order to be fully operational. FILA also reviewed the experience acquired by the wrestlers and their coaches during the 2007 competitions – the African Championships and Games and the senior World Championship in Baku. Training programmes were also addressed in order to lead to a possible qualification of the wrestlers for the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing.

One of the topics was also the career of each wrestler after their stay in the centre as well as the arrival of new scholarship holders who will reinforce the centre in view of the 2012 Olympic Games. The FILA President seized the opportunity to meet with the National federation, the NOCs authorities and the Sports Minister.