OREANDA-NEWS. March 25, 2010. Russian delegation to the competition, led by Chief of the Physical Training of the RF Armed Forces, Colonel Alexander Schepelev, consists of 32 persons. The number of participants at the Games is to become one of the most representative.

According to sports experts, the Russians will be among the main claimant for top honours and prizes in most of the upcoming contests.

Program of the prestigious global sporting event is vast and varied. In addition to the usual kinds - ski racing, biathlon, giant slalom, short track, participants of the “Olympiad in epaulettes”, as they call these games in the sports media, will fight for victory in quite specific disciplines, with “professional” ski-slope orientation, race patrols, night slalom, mountaineering and rock-climbing.

The First World Military Games flame will burn until March 25.