MOSCOW adidas nmd chukka pas cher femme , May 30 (Xinhua) -- The Winter Olympics due in Sochi in 2014 would be "fantastic," International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Jacques Rogge said Thursday.
"We like very much the pace of preparations to the Olympic Games in Sochi. We believe the Games will be fantastic," Rogge said during his meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in the city of St. Petersburg.
Rogge highlighted "enormous contributions" Russia has been making into the Olympic movement.
Putin promised the IOC head to hold a "sports feast" in the Black Sea resort of Sochi which is slated for February 2014.
Rogge arrived in St. Petersburg on Wednesday to participate in the four-day Sport Accord conference where relevant decisions would be made on inclusion of wrestling, softball and squash into the Olympic program and on other principal sports affairs.
The Russian government allocated nearly 100 billion rubles (some 3 billion U.S. dollars) for the preparations of the Sochi Olympics and 144 billion rubles (4.6 billion dollars) more have been received from non-budget sources.
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BERLIN, June 16 (Xinhua) -- Former German Chancellor Helmut Kohl died at his home in Germany's Ludwigshafen on Friday.
Kohl served as German chancellor between 1982 and 1998 and is well known as the "chancellor of unity" for his active political plan bringing west and east Germany together.
Under heavy pressure in 1989 he negotiated with the leaders of the United States and the Soviet Union and secured a peaceful and stable Germany reunification, Deutsche Presse Agentur reported.
He is also hailed for his contribution to European integration and the European single currency and market. He persuaded Germans to give up the then strong Deutsche Mark and adopted euro.
As a leader for Christian Democratic Union (CDU), Kohl was seen as the mentor for Chancellor Angela Merkel.
On late Friday, Merkel paid tribute to Kohl during her visit in Rome saying the news of his death fill her "with great sadness." She said her own life had changed with Kohl's guidance which she was extremely grateful to.
Merkel also called Kohl "stroke of luck of us German adidas eqt 93/17 pas cher ," since Kohl seized the historic chance and overcome difficulties to unify Germany.
CDU party posted on Twitter: "We are in sorrow. #RIP #HelmutKohl."
At Kohl's house in Ludwigshafen, flowers were laid by mourners by the staircase.
In 2002, Kohl resigned from lower house of the parliament Bundestag and officially left politics.
He began fighting with illness after a fall and a head injury in 2008, and since then he had to sit on a wheelchair and could barely speak. Kohl received a intestine surgery in 2015 and since then his condition gradually worsened.
He died at the age of 87.
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TEGUCIGALPA, Aug. 25 (Xinhua) -- Veteran Olimpia striker Carlo Costly has returned to the Honduras national squad after an 18-month absence, head coach Jorge Luis Pinto said on Friday.
Costly, 35, quit international football in March 2016 after publicly falling out with Pinto chaussure adidas original pas cher , but the pair have settled their differences, the former Colombia and Costa Rica manager told a press conference.
"Carlo is playing his best football in years," Pinto said. "We hope that he can carry on that form for the national team."
"As the head coach, I know what I should do, and he knows what he needs to do on the pitch. We've brought him in to the team at an opportune time."
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The top three teams in the group will clinch a direct berth at next year's World Cup in Russia while the fourth-ranked side will secure a playoff spot.
Honduras squad:
Goalkeepers: Donis Escober (Olimpia), Luis Lopez (Real Espana), Ricardo Canales (Vida).
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