To mark its 10th anniversary, Gran Kaz, hosted an international boxing tournament, featuring some of Seychelles' top boxers alongside a team from Russia, Rostov-on-Don.
The tournament took place at Gran Kaz Bel Ombre, and Seychelles had a team of eight Seychellois boxers who fought against eight boxers from Rostov-on-Don City from Russia.
"The event not only marks the beginning of a series of activities that Gran Kaz will be hosting to mark our 10th anniversary, but it also highlights our ongoing partnership with the Seychelles Boxing Federation, which began a little over two years ago," said the public relations manager, Shama Amesbury.
The chairman of the Seychelles Boxing Federation (SBF), Jacques Bonne, said that Russia has very good boxers, who have trained at a high level, but the local boxers are well prepared and ready.
The competition was being organized through a partnership between Gran Kaz, the Seychelles Boxing Federation, the Ministry for Youth and Sports and the Russian Embassy in Seychelles.
The principal secretary for Sports, Ralph Jean-Louis said the Ministry wants to return boxing to its glory days of the 1980s.
"This is why we are pushing on several fronts, not only by bringing boxers to Seychelles, but if you remember, last year we had four boxers who went to train in Russia, and two coaches who benefitted with training, so they can better prepare our boxers," said Jean-Louis.
He added that the Ministry wants to send boxers to Russia to train for a year so they can develop and represent Seychelles at the Olympic Games. Seychelles, an archipelago in the western Indian Ocean, has never won a gold medal at the Olympic Games.
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