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ISU to promote synchronized skating

Xinhua, March 26, 2015 Adjust font size:

International Skating Union (ISU) President Ottavio Cinquanta said Thursday that the union will promote synchronized skating in the world and try to make it enter the Winter Olympic Games in the future.

"Synchronized skating is a new sport of ISU," said the 76-year-old. "Why do we create such a sport? Because everybody, other than top skaters, can take part in the sport. We hope more and more people start to skate."

As team event of figure skating has been included in the Winter Olympic Games, Cinquanta hopes the new sport can also make it entry to the Olympics.

"The IOC will decide whether to include it or not, and we hope it decide positively," the Italian said. "We want to develop a new sport. The team event is very successful, and we want to add another sport."

He refused to make comment on Beijing's chance of winning the 2022 Winter Olympics bidding, but expressed his satisfaction of the organization of the Figure Skating worlds in Shanghai.

"The organizing committee has done a good job so far," he said. "Shanghai is a wonderful city. The next Winter Olympic Games will be held in South Korea, and the 2022 Winter Olympic Games will be held either in Beijing or Almaty, but now I don't want to say anything about it."

It's the first time for Shanghai to host a Figure Skating World Championships. Endi