Leaders of national and international sport organizations, who arrived in Turkmenistan to the Asian Weightlifting Federation Congress, had an opportunity to see the level of equipment and facilities base of sport sphere of our country on example of the capital Olympic village as well as to familiarize with large-scale activity undertaken in Turkmenistan for the development of public physical training movement and sports of high achievements. Tamas Ajan, the President of International Weightlifting Federation presented his vision of the efficiency of this work in his interview to TDH: - First of all, I would like to tell that I have heart a lot about Turkmenistan. Being the Secretary General of the Olympic Committee of the Republic of Hungary for around 20 years and lately the President of International Weightlifting Federation, I used to meet Turkmen colleagues on repeated occasions and finally visited your country. I arrived at night and the airport and Ashgabat itself made a great impression on me. I saw beautiful white marble city full of bright lights. Unfortunately, I don’t have enough time for a tour around the city but for the time I stayed there I felt most friendly attitude of Turkmen citizens, saw magnificent architecture and tried wonderful Turkmen cuisine. And I’m happy that I had an opportunity to visit Turkmenistan, the country which leader, President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov pays such great attention to the development of sports. Obvious results of such efforts by the Head of the State are impressive! I’d like to mention that it is the first time when weightlifting competitions are included to the programme of Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games in Ashgabat. These days, there are test competitions at present, which are an important stage of the preparation to the forthcoming Games. Asian Weightlifting Championship is an excellent opportunity to bring together not only the sportsmen but also the leaders of the federations and discuss common subjects of development of this sport. Asian Weightlifting Federation makes large contribution to this work as well. I welcome an active position of this organization, with the leader of which I had active working relations. It was great idea to organize Asian Championship as a test competitions and personally, having received the evidence of high level of preparation and service, I can assure that they would be successful and would become the guarantee of the best weightlifting tournament during the Games. I would like also to mention the level of organization of the Asian Weightlifting Federation Congress, which was held in your beautiful capital. In general, sport life in Asia is on its peak. This is indicated by the fact that Asian weightlifters were competing in 15 weight categories (8men and 7 women) during the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro where they won 13 sets of gold medals, while one set was won by European athletes and another by American. In Ashgabat competitions, the sportsmen compete in 16 weight categories – 8 men and 8 women. The main conclusion that I made here is that Turkmenistan is a sport country and this is all the merits of personal support by President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov. I would like to visit your country more often and I believe that there will be more reasons for that. I am also sure that current competitions will give a strong impulse to further development of sports. I said the President of Turkmenistan Weightlifting Competitions that the best advertisement for the country is the organization of competitions the way you do it. This is a visual example of the open door policy and diplomatic course that the Government of the country is committed to. Everybody, who will arrive to Turkmenistan for 2017 Asian Games will receive the evidence of this when they see the high-class level of large sport event that your country is able to organize. I would like to express the gratitude one more time for the invitation to Ashgabat where I am happy to be with my friends, colleagues, partners and most welcoming hosts! Muhammed Yusuf Al-Mana, the President of the Asian Weightlifting Federation aslo expressed his opinion, having shared his impressions from the familiarization with the infrastructure of the Olympic village of the capital in his interview to TDH: - This is not just a large sport complex, this is a real Olympic city that has everything for life, from excellently equipped training base to supermarkets. This is a unique facility in Asia as usually such facilities are present only in the countries that hosted the Olympics. I am amazed by what I have seen! In this regards, let me address your Leader Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov my sincere congratulations on successful realization of such large-scale projects. We all know that the sports cannot be developed in the country with such speed as it is going on in Turkmenistan without personal participation of the head of the state. I share the pride with Turkmenistan citizens that current Asian Weightlifting Championship is held in your beautiful capital and I have no doubts that in future Ashgabat will host large international competitions in different sports. You have all conditions for that and first of all, the Olympic village where everything is well considered and functionally equipped with necessary facilities including hotels, hostels for the sportsmen, sport arenas, service and other. I would like to highlight well-organized direct shuttle service between the airport and the Olympic village as an important moment. Proper diet is one of the main factors to stay in good condition for the athletes. In this context, I would like to highlight excellent service and energetically balanced, correct in terms of the products quality ratio that is served to the sportsmen. I would like to make special mention Turkmen cuisine – it’s magnificent! Today, the sports is actively developed all over the world. the governments of many countries started to pay more attention to this subject. But I would call Turkmenistan as an example of how, owing to the efforts of President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov who initiated nation-wide sport movement, the care of the Government of health and prosperity of its citizens achieve visual expression and actual results.