Address of the first vice-president of Association of wrestling of Ukraine Oleg Kravchenko

Dear, friends, colleagues, sworn brothers!

We got used to won a victory, forgetting not to obey destiny, to go forward towards the aim about nerves, despair, pains, courageously overcoming any obstacles. Life tested us more than once for moral stability and strength of mind. However, the difficulty were more difficult, the our association became closer. Quite recently we gathered a big, close-knit wrestling family and rescued the Olympic future of wrestling. The whole world delighted watched a friendly meeting at the station in the USA the wrestling national teams, it would seem the irreconcilable countries - the USA and the Islamic Republic of Iran. The Ukrainian athletes together with wrestlers of the world received the most important in life a victory! We together passed examination for man's advantage. After all out of a carpet of rivals doesn't exist! We can't be separated, quarreled and won. After all we are united by love, not to itself - love to wrestling. All of us are unconditionally betrayed to business of development and prosperity of one of the most spectacular arts of all types of the wrestling, promoting strengthening of authority of the Ukrainian state on the world scene.

The latest events laid the foundation of fair, democratic undertakings in all spheres of activity of our Homeland. Therefore it is so important, at this moment solving for the country, to all Ukrainian wrestlers to unite together and to prove to any political forces that nobody will be able to seed between us sprouts of hostility and contention, hatred to each other. Being guided by exclusively Olympic principles in work of our organizations, we will steadily promote development of sports skill, education not only successful athletes, but also the worthy citizens loving the earth, the ​​the people.

It is convinced that honest and devoted work, we and will hoist further the colors of Ukraine on the highest podiums that in uncompromising wrestling to conquer peaks to which the following generations of the Ukrainian wrestlers will go!

The first vice-the president of

Association A. Kravchenko'