ZAGREB, Aug 5 (Hina) - The best Croatian taekwondo player Natasa Vezmar, who is to compete in the Olympics in Sydney, will light "The Torch of Peace" at a ceremony marking the beginning of the Second World Military Games, to be held
in Zagreb between August 8 and 17. The games will gather 6,442 competitors from 75 countries.
ZAGREB, Aug 5 (Hina) - The best Croatian taekwondo player Natasa
Vezmar, who is to compete in the Olympics in Sydney, will light "The
Torch of Peace" at a ceremony marking the beginning of the Second
World Military Games, to be held in Zagreb between August 8 and 17.
The games will gather 6,442 competitors from 75 countries. #L#
"The Torch of Peace" will be brought into the venue of the opening
ceremony - Zagreb's Maksimir stadium - by Ivan Zorica, a competitor
in the 'Sinjska Alka' tournament.
According to a deputy director of the Institution of the 2nd World
Military Games, Matija Ljubek, a solemn oath will be read out on
behalf of all athletes by the winner of two silver medals at the
recent European swimming championship in Istanbul, Gordan Kozulj.
The Croatian flag will be carried into the stadium by the winner of
the single Croatian medal (bronze medal in boxing) at the First
World Military Games in Rome in 1995, Drago Mijic, chief coach of
Croatia's military boxing team and a participant in the Homeland
War.
Croatia's athletes in an official review of athletes-soldiers will
be headed by a deputy director of the Institution of the Second
World Military Games, Staff Brigadier Zdravko Andabak.
(hina) rml