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Metropolitan Hilarion: I will cheer for the skiers!

Russia (bbabo.net), - Metropolitan Hilarion, head of the Synodal Department for External Church Relations of the Moscow Patriarchate, said in the program "Church and World" on the TV channel "Russia 24" that he would cheer for skiers at the Olympics in Beijing. The explanation is simple: Vladyka loves skiing.

"I will follow skiing competitions with more interest than competitions in other sports, since I myself am involved in skiing in some way, I know how to ski," he said. According to the clergyman, Archpriest Andrei Alekseev, rector of the Church of the Holy Right-Believing Grand Duke Dimitry Donskoy in Northern Butovo, takes care of our team. He is in China and fulfills his duties as the confessor of the Olympians.

And before the Olympics, Patriarch Kirill admonished the athletes, expressing the hope that the Games would serve to reconcile peoples and end discord.

Metropolitan Hilarion: I will cheer for the skiers!