ICF President José Perurena Lopez: we are ready to give Moscow the right to hold international kayak and canoe rowing event of the highest level

Today, on August, 1, at the Moscow rowing channel “Krylatskoe” the second competition day of the World Junior Sprint Canoe and Kayak Championships was over. The president of the International canoe federation José Perurena Lopez a day before the end of the competition declared to the special correspondent of the Agency of sport information “All Sport” that the World championships in Moscow have been a success.

“The Olympic rowing channel in Krylatskoe, according to may athletes and officials, is one of the best channels in the world”, José Perurena Lopez said. “May be it needs some renovation in the infrastructure but the channel itself and the organization are just perfect. That is why we are ready to give Moscow the right to hold competitions of the highest international level. We haven’t got any concrete suggestions yet though, and the World Champs are assigned till 2012. But in 2012 Moscow will first time in history host the World Cup stage. Yesterday we discussed it with the president of the Russian canoe and kayak federation Yevgeny Arkhipov, and there is really a chance that Moscow will bid for the World Champs-2013 or 2014. I can only hope that Moscow will host the events of such a scale. Russia is a huge country, rich with talents, you have perfect crowd on the stands, perfect channel – that is you have got everything needed for success!”