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Yang Liguo, vice-chairman and sectary of Federation of University Sports of China (FUSC), has been elected as a deputy president of International University Sports Federation (FISU) in the body’s General Assembly held in Lausanne, Switzerland last Sunday.
Mr Yang received 105 votes in the preliminary round of election, seeing another Chinese hold a position as a deputy president of the governing body of world’s university sports after former head of FUSC Zhang Xinsheng who had assumed the same role since 2003.
The new election of Yang Liguo will help boost the development of university sports in China and quicken the internationalization course of that in the country, according to an open letter by FUSC to the media.
Amid presidents and sectaries from university sports governing bodies of 128 countries and regions, IOC President Thomas Bach was in attendance and praised the significant role that university sports play in the world’s sports.
In the election, Oleg Matytsin, who is from Russia, has been elected as the new President of the (FISU) after beating French incumbent Claude-Louis Gallien.
Source: Beijing Daily
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