The National Olympic and Sports Committee reached 25 years of its foundation. The elite of the Moldovan sport celebrated the event at a luxury hotel in Chisinau, IPN reports.

“We won medals at practically all the Olympic Games. Last year we achieved good results at the first European Olympic Games held in Baku and at the Youth Olympic Festival in Tbilisi. I hope we will have a good performance at the Rio Olympics too,” the Committee’s president Nicolae Juravschi said in the festivity.

During the event, Nicolae Juravschi handed over the Olympic Order to double Olympic champion Victor Reneiski, bronze medalist at the Atlanta Olympics Sergey Mureico, president of the Moldovan Football Federation Pavel Cebanu, president of the Moldovan Boxing Federation Vasile Chirtoca, and first vice president of the National Olympic and Sports Committee Nicolae Piatac. Another group of athletes were conferred the Olympic Merit medal.