Sun, Nov 08 2009
"Despite several individual successes, Bulgarian sport registered serious regress compared to the previous Olympic Games," State Agency for Youth and Sport (SAYS) chairperson Vessela Lecheva told private broadcaster bTV.
The reason for the small medal haul was a combination of problems, whose resolution had been postponed for a long time, she said. Bulgarian sport's main problem was the cumbersome organisational structure and inadequate sports facilities.
There was no problem in the communication between SAYS and the sports clubs, but everything in the country was being done "extremely slowly", she said.
"At the 2008 Beijing Olympics, Bulgaria showed the best it had in the moment," according to Lecheva.
Kindergartens to be dealt with on a case-by-case basis and universities to decide for themselves whether to suspend classes.
Five illegal immigrants from Iran and Iraq caught by Bulgarian police in Sliven.
Leonid Lavchev sent an intermediary to collect 1000 leva from a dairy farm in Haskovo, investigators say
Former labour minister Emilia Maslarova follows the example of Socialist party leader and former prime minister, Sergei Stanishev, in requesting that her MP immunity is lifted
Health Minister: Influenza strain is not seasonal flu, it is swine flu. More than 100 000 Bulgarians are down with the H1N1 strain.