Inspection visit in Legnica (POL) by FITA Events Director

 The stadium IM. Orla BIALEGO has been chosen to host the finals. It is located in the city center and offers the spaces, conditions, facilities and public stands to create a good show during the finals. Preliminaries and elimination rounds will be organised in the Legnica park, located on one side of the stadium, and offering the public and participants the possibility to enjoy the park, the city and the archery competition within a walking distance. Venues are of good standards and the city of Legnica is strongly supporting this event.

The mayor of the city Mr Tadeuzs KRAZAKOWKI and his deputy Mrs Dorota PURGAL (photo, with Mr HOLGADO) welcomed FITA and arranged a press conference in the city hall to provide information about this event and the FITA visit. Mr KRAZAKOWKI assured that this event has full support from the city and expressed the authorities’ enthusiasm. During the discussions with Mr HOLGADO, Mr KRAZAKOWKI said: “I love sport and I strongly believe in the many benefits that sport gives to the youth and to our city. I have always been supporting sport in Legnica. Archery is one of the main sport in my community and it has received my support in many occasions. I am proud and honored to be able to do it again now, and to be part of this World Class event. We will make sure that everything in Legnica will be as good as FITA expects, and even better. During 10 days Legnica will have the image of Poland in its hand. It will be the most important sport event in Poland in 2011. Legnica will not fail this challenge and will deliver a very successful event. We are looking forward to welcoming the Archers from all over the World”. 

LOC and Mr HOLGADO during the sightseeing visit to the historical centre Juan Carlos HOLGADO visited the hotels chosen by the LOC to accommodate the Archery family during the championships. There are four Officials hotels, ranging from a 5-star level to “dormitories”. Standards are excellent, distance to the venue are very short. Three of them are located at a walking distance from the archery field and stadium.  Ratio quality/cost of the hotels are very good, which is one of the strongest point of the LOC plans.  In the past months, the local archery club, the Polish archery Federation and the city of Legnica have worked together to present FITA a very complete event and master plan to deliver the event on time and successfully. The LOC has experience in organising local, national and international level archery competition. During the visit it was clear to Juan Carlos that the size, challenge and complexity to organise a WAYCh is understood.   Different meetings between FITA and the LOC took place. Visits were made to local archery club and facilities. The visit concluded with the establishment of a working agenda for the following months. The FITA Events Director stated: “the LOC and the city of Legnica have done a fantastic job in preparing this bid. I am impressed by the amount of work put so far in this event with more than 500 days to go. I have the impression that the LOC is fully aware of the challenge they have ahead of them and that they are getting ready to impress us during the event. FITA is very pleased to see such a good preparation and I am confident in the entire event plan”.

Official invitation packages will be published around September 2010, which will allow the MAs to plan their participation to this event properly.

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