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FINA executive director satisfied with Hungary 2017 championship preparations

Budapest (MTI) – FINA Executive Director Cornel Marculescu on Monday said he was “extremely satisfied” with preparations at Budapest’s Dagaly swimming centre for the 2017 World Aquatics Championships.

The executive director was in Budapest with a FINA delegation to inspect preparation works for the championships. Marculescu said the capital city had made significant progress since Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, FINA President Julio C. Maglione and Budapest Mayor István Tarlós laid the cornerstone of the Dagaly facility back in May.

Marculescu said he was certain that the facility would be completed on schedule. The executive director and Balázs Fürjes, government commissioner for priority investments, signed the arena’s final construction plans.

Hungary won the right to host the 2017 championships in March of this year. The event was originally planned to be held in Guadalajara in Mexico but the city pulled out for financial reasons.

The 2017 Budapest World Aquatics Championships mascot is a white zombie puli

According to 4024.hu, it’s quite shocking that the competent persons managed to come up with a hideous mascot again, after the chicken of Fradi. This time, we can be ashamed because of the “animal” of Aquatic Championship in two year.

Sportsgrid.com also reported on the new horror and also wrote how Budapest got the right to organize. Originally, Budapest would have organized the World Championship in 2021, but Guadalajara eventually withdrew, because their economic situation would not allow organizing the World Championship which would cost about USD 100 million (approx. HUF 23 billion).

So the Hungarian capital quickly struck down. The initial budget was estimated USD 76 million. Then, of course, it has been revealed such an event can’t be conducted, so the budget is USD 140 million currently.

4024.hu also curious to see how much money the designer and the construction company got, according to their ideas the white zombie puli was born.

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2017 Budapest World Aquatics Championships’ website has been launched

According to atv.hu, to the signal of Julio C. Maglione, President of the International Swimming Federation (FINA), 2017 Budapest World Aquatics Championships’ website has been launched on Sunday.

At the press conference in Kazan Arena, which hosted the swimming competitions, the Uruguayan President of FINA evaluated with satisfaction the Kazan World Championship where the audience could saw 12 world records before the Sunday’s finals.

Russian Sports Minister Vitaly Mutko thanked FINA’s confidence, and he said one of the biggest sporting events of Russia’s history had been organized and they hoped they had not disappointed anyone.

Tamás Gyárfás, Hungarian Vice President of FINA said, Russia had organized the World Cup at the highest level and he hoped Hungary would able to do well likewise.

Lajos Kosa, another President of the World Cup’s organizing committee emphasized: Hungary is not an easy situation by accepting the organization of the 2017 World Championship following the withdrawal of Guadalajara, Mexico. In addition, Russia hosted a fantastic World Cup, and now they have to surpass it.

“Hungary is doing well with the organization and welcomes everyone to the event taking place in 2 years.”

After that, to the sign of Julio C. Maglione, the website of the 2017 World Championships has been launched. Lajos Kosa said, one of the special feature of the Hungarian World Cup will be the new swimming pool and the giant jumping tower, which will be organized at the Danube’s section in front of the Parliament.

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Budapest to host 2017 World Aquatics Championships

Budapest, March 11 (MTI) – Budapest will host the 2017 FINA World Championships, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said on Wednesday after signing the related contract with international swimming federation FINA managing director Cornel Marculescu.

The event was originally planned to be held in Guadalajara in Mexico but the city pulled out last month for financial reasons.

Orbán told a press conference that Marculescu attended Wednesday’s government meeting where it was decided that the agreement should be signed.

“Hungary has never hosted an international event of such grand scale, so it will be necessary to join forces because this is a huge undertaking. Its success is not written in the stars. We have taken risks but it is possible to fulfil the task. We are proud that FINA has chosen us,” Orbán said.

The venue for the main event is set to be Margaret Island on the Danube, whose swimming complex will be revamped, and the Dagaly baths on the Buda side of the capital. Further, a new flood-defence system is planned north of Árpád Bridge to protect the Dagály baths.

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He added that if everyone does their job and deadlines are kept, then the event will be a success and Hungary will profit from it, also financially. Hungary’s economy grew by 3.5 percent last year, which can serve as a basis for this undertaking, he said.

“What we need now is world champion organisers. Unless we grow up to the level of our world-champion swimmers, we cannot do this,” Orbán said. He added that he had already consulted with the opposition about the event and he was pleased that they “did not reject” cooperation. This is also necessary because due to the short deadline, a law will need to be introduced for Hungary to be able to act as the host country, Orbán said.

Marculescu said that the junior world championships originally planned to be in Budapest in 2017 will now be held two years later in the Hungarian capital.

Budapest previously won the right to host the 2021 World Aquatics contest but a new round of applications will be invited now for this event, the secretary-general of the Hungarian swimming association Tünde Szabó said.

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