Sochi 2014 have been active participants in The 4th IOC World Conference on Women and Sport, hosted in Jordan with over 600 delegates from 116 countries which concluded this morning. The conference was designed to find ways sport can act as a vehicle for social change and in particular, the agenda focused on ways to increase the role of women in all levels of sport.
Members of the Sochi 2014 Organising Committee participated in the training and break-out groups at the three-day conference as part of Sochi's pledge to offer equal opportunities, based on merit and qualifications.
Dmitry Chernyshenko, CEO Sochi 2014 said:
"Our attendance at this conference was very important, as Sochi 2014 is firmly committed to the Olympic values of equal opportunities for women. It has been very useful to hear all the issues and many diverse solutions offered by delegates from all over the world.
We, at Sochi 2014, currently employ over 40% women, including women in some of our most senior positions. We hope to be able to increase this figure as our recruitment of excellence gains momentum. In turn, this will help set an example throughout Russian sport and lead to increased numbers of women as senior sports administrators.
This is in line with an overall drive by the Russian Olympic Committee and Ministry of Sport to increase the amount of women participants, especially youth, in all different types of sport and physical activity.
Sochi 2014 aims to inspire hundreds of thousands of girls and young women across Russia and throughout the world to take up sport." Dmitry Chernyshenko concluded.
Sochi 2014 will now study and act upon the resolutions that the IOC will issue following the conference.
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