Our President, Prof. Dr. Bülent Çakmak, participated in IV. Academic Sports Research Congress carried out online today. Mr. Çakmak, in his opening speech, emphasised the importance of sports and sportsmen in social life and stated that such scientific congresses and symposiums on sports sciences would be beneficial. Noting that the pandemic process we are in reminds once again the importance and place of sports in human life, Mr. Çakmak stated that such scientific activities will reveal different gains. President Çakmak, who also talked about the faculty members of the Faculty of Sports Sciences of our university and the athletes they trained, ended his speech by thanking those who organised the congress and those who contributed.