Present at the meeting were Juan Antonio Samaranch Junior, Anne Inchauspe, secretary to the IOC Honorary President, Vyacheslav Fetisov, head of the Russian Federal Agency for Physical Culture and Sport, Leonid Tyagachev, president of the Russian Olympic Committee, Vladimir Smirnov, honorary president of the Russian Olympic Committee and member of the International Olympic Committee, and Vladimir Potanin, president of Interros Holding.
Opening the meeting, Mr Putin said he hoped that relations with the International Olympic Committee would develop positively.