Cyprus and Greece renew their Sports cooperation

Cyprus and Greece signed here today a memorandum renewing their partnership, covering a total of 29 sports, for 2007.
The memorandum was signed by Greece‘s Deputy Minister of Culture, responsible for sports George Orphanos and by Cyprus Sport Organization Vice President Rikos Theocharides.
Orphanos described the memorandum as ”strongly expanded and aggressively developmental,” adding that this would ”give the Greek and Cypriot sports the capability to make even more steps of progress, which the two countries are showing during the last years.”
The memorandum covers cooperation in football, sailing, shooting, athletics, tennis, badminton, volley bal, show skiing, gymnastics, wrestling, karate, squash, table tennis, basket ball, boxing, archery, fencing, triathlon, Modern Pentathlon, judo, paragliding, swimming, cycling, water ski, weight lifting, rowing, handicap athletics, handball and Canoe/Kayak.
According to Theocharides, the memorandum is based on three axles. The first covers issues of education, from science to training and the organising of joint seminars, the second covers exchange and training of high performance athletes of the two countries and the third axle covers the participation of athletes of Greece and Cyprus in the major sporting events hosted in the two countries.