The first visit of the ICMG Coordination Commission for the Mediterranean Beach Games “Heraklion 2023” took place on the island of Crete.

The ICMG delegation represented by President Davide Tizzano, Secretary General Iakovos Filippousis and Treasurer Panagiotis Ioannidis, traveled to Crete accompanied by members of the Coordination Commission: General Souhail Khoury (President), Francisco Luis Gomez Serrano , Eros Bologna, Stratos Karetos and Ilias Dalainas.

Α series of meetings were organized with all the stakeholders in the organization of the 3rd Mediterranean Beach Games along with visits to the beaches and to the Heraklion Sports Center which will host the major sporting event in September 2023.

The visit began at Saturday with a meeting with the mayors of the three co-organizing municipalities (Vassilis Lambrinos – Mayor of Heraklion, Meneleos Bokeas – Mayor of the municipality of Malevizi, Ioannis Segkos – Mayor of the municipality of Hersonissos) but also with the members of the Board of Directors of the “Heraklion 2023” Organizing Committee (Nikos Dampakakis – President, Vangelis Karkanakis – Vice-president, Manolis Vlastos – Executive Director, Nektarios Papavassiliou, George Christodoulakis and Theocharis Leontarakis).