{"id":11324,"date":"2026-02-18T06:00:42","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T06:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/11324\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T06:00:42","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T06:00:42","slug":"russias-minister-of-sports-and-president-of-russian-olympic-committee-meets-fisu-secretary-general-and-ceo-in-lausanne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/11324\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia&#8217;s Minister of Sports and President of Russian Olympic Committee meets FISU Secretary General and CEO in Lausanne"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"has-2-xl-font-size\">Dr Michael Degtyarev and a small delegation from his cabinet visited Matthias Remund at the FISU Headquarters do discuss the importance of student sport in his country.<\/p>\n<p>The President of Russian Olympic Committee and Russia\u2019s Minister of sports, Dr Mchael Degtyarev had a meeting with International University Sports Federation Secretary General and CEO Matthias Remund at Synathlon building on Lausanne University Campus on 7 July 2025.<\/p>\n<p>The discussions mainly concerned the development of student sport in Russia and how high university sport is on the Sports Ministry\u2019s agenda. Dr Michael Degtyarev said he works closely with the Russian Student Sports Union, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fisu.net\/2025\/04\/17\/fisu-and-rssu-held-a-meeting-in-lausanne\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">whose representatives visited FISU last spring<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/IMG_7102-1024x683.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-85033 size-full\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>The RSSU has been assigned an important role in the implementation of the student sports development plan. The organisation\u2019s tasks include building a system of competitions, creating student sports leagues, and broadcasting the values of the Olympic sports movement among students.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/IMG_7119-1024x683.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-85034 size-full\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>FISU\u2019s Secretary General\/CEO and Minister of sports of Russia and president of Russian Olympic Committee recalled the successful experience of organising major university sports events: the World Summer Universiade in Kazan in 2013, the FISU Forum in Krasnoyarsk in 2018, the World Winter Universiade in Krasnoyarsk 2019.<\/p>\n<p>They also discussed the Healthy Campus Programme and possible future hosting possibilities for sports and educational events.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt FISU we are neutral and open to discussions, but for our sports events, we follow the guidelines of the International Federations and the International Olympic Committee\u201d, reminded Matthias Remund. \u201cI believe university sports has a great role to play in bringing people together\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Related News<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"object-cover w-full h-full transition-all group-hover:scale-110\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/IMG_7361-580x400.jpeg\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"580\" height=\"400\"\/><\/p>\n<p>15 September 2025<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"object-cover w-full h-full transition-all group-hover:scale-110\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Rhine_Ruhr_2025_Keyvisual_FullHD-6-580x400.jpeg\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"580\" height=\"400\"\/><\/p>\n<p>4 July 2025<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"object-cover w-full h-full transition-all group-hover:scale-110\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Outside2-1-580x400.jpg\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"580\" height=\"400\"\/><\/p>\n<p>17 April 2025<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"object-cover w-full h-full transition-all group-hover:scale-110\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/IMG_7361-580x400.jpeg\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"580\" height=\"400\"\/><\/p>\n<p>15 September 2025<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"object-cover w-full h-full transition-all group-hover:scale-110\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Rhine_Ruhr_2025_Keyvisual_FullHD-6-580x400.jpeg\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"580\" height=\"400\"\/><\/p>\n<p>4 July 2025<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"object-cover w-full h-full transition-all group-hover:scale-110\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Outside2-1-580x400.jpg\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"580\" height=\"400\"\/><\/p>\n<p>17 April 2025<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dr Michael Degtyarev and a small delegation from his cabinet visited Matthias Remund at the FISU Headquarters do&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11325,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[9],"tags":[2382,94,8556],"class_list":["post-11324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lausanne","tag-fisu","tag-lausanne","tag-meetings"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11324\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}