In preparation for the National Virtual Sports Museum

The Hungarian Olympic and Sports Museum, the Hungarian Olympic Champions' Club, the Hungarian Olympic Academy, the Hungarian Sports Journalists' Association, the Hungarian Paralympic Committee, the Hungarian Coaching Association, the Hungarian Competitive Sports Association, the sports editors of the Hungarian Telegraphic Office, the Prime Minister's Office and the Béla Nagy Traditionalist Association represented themselves at the meeting.

The experts participating in the meeting stressed that it is important to also create a databank in a controlled form at a high level and in an attractive, acceptable manner to the new generations. The databank would also include a portrait hall of the sportsmen wearing the national team jersey: the nearly 4,000 Olympic participants and their coaches, those who represent Hungary at World championships and European championships, the more than 1,000 national football players, Paralympians, chess Olympians, emigrants and Hungarian sports heroes from abroad.

At the initiative of two-time Olympic champion Pál Schmitt and Zoltán Lomnici, president of the Board of the Golden Team, the sports leaders and professionals present laid down the most important conditions and first steps for the establishment of the National Virtual Sports Museum. They agreed that, together with the organizations they represent, they will all help to create an interactive internet repository that commemorates the bests of Hungarian sport.

Translated by Vanda Orosz