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On Saturday, the President of the Russian Olympic Committee, Alexander Zhukov, highlighted athletics and swimming among the sports in which Russia needs to show improvement for the 2016 Games in Rio de Janeiro.

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SOUNDBITE (Russian) Alexander Zhukov, President of Russian Olympic Committee:

"There are still two days left until the end of the Olympics, there are still lots of medals for everyone to win, so I don't want to comment on the team's success yet. In Beijing we had 23 gold medals, at this point in time we have 17 - but we're hoping that our sportsmen and women are going to do well in these final two days. In the overall medal count Russia is doing better than at the Beijing Olympics."

SOUNDBITE (Russian) Alexander Zhukov, President of Russian Olympic Committee:

"We've got a couple of sports we need to do better in than we did at this Olympics. Firstly, swimming, rowing, athletics, shooting and fencing - in those sports we will try our best to improve for the Rio Olympics."

SOUNDBITE (Russian) Alexander Zhukov, President of Russian Olympic Committee: 

"Overall, the London Olympics has been organised well. But in Sochi we will try to organise the 
transport/logistics better (than here), so people can be easily transported from one event to another. Secondly, we'll aim to give better training to our volunteers. We've got a large group of experts here that are watching for things that we can implement at the Sochi Olympics, and then we're going to implement the most positive things."