“Challenge!” – New Year’s Greetings from Morinari Watanabe03/01/2017
“It’s a great pleasure and honor to send you my greetings for the New Year as President of the FIG.First of all, let me wish you a happy and prosperous year ahead, with a lot of success in Gymnastics and beyond.I would like also to pay tribute to my predecessor Bruno Grandi for all that he achieved during the past 20 years.For my part, I am from Japan, the Land of the Rising Sun.I would like to throw new sunshine on the gymnastics family.To this end, I would like to propose “Challenge” as the slogan of the 2017 gymnastics family.I am determined to rise to the challenge of forming a new FIG and I would like you to join me in accepting new challenges in 2017.Please take on a new challenge that is different from what you did last year.There are 148 FIG member Federations.I am sure that those 148 challenges will lead the world Gymnastics community to further its development.I would like to close my new year’s greetings by wishing you every success in your new challenges.” Morinari Watanabe, FIG PresidentRelated keywordsFIG President, Morinari Watanabe, wishes
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