Champion Energy Boost for WYF 2024 Guests and Participants

Every day, guests and participants of the World Youth Festival at Sirius start each day on a positive wave. And famous athletes help them to properly tune in and energize. During all the days of the WYF 2024, as part of the sports program of the Festival, prepared by the organizing committee of the World Friendship Games, everyone can take part in health-improving exercises conducted for them by Olympic and world champions.

Special sites for morning exercises were set up in three locations. Boxing exercises by the Russian Boxing Federation take place on the Main Stage of the Festival, and athletes from other sports take place at the venues near the Sochi Park Hotel and Velvet Seasons. For example, on the first day of the WYF 2024 in Sochi Park Hotel the Russian champion in BMX freestyle and the winner of the first Games of the Future Irek Rizayev lit up, and on the main stage of the Festival the Olympic boxing champion Rakhim Chakhkiev provided a charge of vivacity. On Sunday, multiple world champions in rhythmic gymnastics Dina and Arina Averina, two-time Olympic champion in Greco-Roman wrestling Roman Vlasov, as well as two-time Olympic and world boxing champion Alexey Tishchenko and Olympic silver medalist and two-time world boxing champion Sofia Ochigava conducted exercises for everyone.

Despite the early start time of the exercises, they regularly gather a large and cosmopolitan audience.

"It's really great to start the day with exercise. It seems to us that everyone who came today got a great charge of vigor and will spend it very productively here at the World Youth Festival. We ourselves, thanks to the exercise, were able to wake up and get in a positive mood!", said Dina Averina and Arina Averina, multiple world champions in rhythmic gymnastics.

"Events like the World Youth Festival, when so many creative and talented people come together, always give birth to new ideas and causes. Thank you very much to our President Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin for targeting young people, thinking about them, about their education. And the health of our youth is very important. We had a morning exercise, set everyone up for a positive attitude for the whole day - that's how you should start it!" - Olympic boxing champion Rakhim Chakhkiev.

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Morning exercises with champions are part of the sports program of the World Youth Festival organized by the Organizing Committee of the World Friendship Games, a new multi-sports tournament that will be held for the first time in Russia on 15 to 29 September 2024. The program of the World Friendship Games will include competitions in 33 summer sports, and more than 6,500 strongest athletes from all over the world will take part in the competition.

The World Youth Festival is taking place at the Sirius Federal Territory from March 1 to 7, 2024, as per the decree issued by Russian President Vladimir Putin aimed at fostering international youth cooperation.

The Federal Agency for Youth Affairs (Rosmolodezh) is the organizer of the World Youth Festival, with the Directorate of the World Youth Festival serving as the operator for WYF 2024.