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Ulaanbaatar /MONTSAME/ Session of the Mongolian National Olympic Committee (MonNOC) will take place December 19 in the Olympic House. The upcoming regular session will discuss five primary issues in accordance with the Committee's rule, such as a report on the actions of works done in the last four years, amending of the MonNOC's rule, and electing the president, vice-presidents and members of the Executive council and members of the Monitoring council. ** ** ** A State Honored Sportsman and Olympic bronze medalist took 8th place in the ECCO Judo Hero Challenge, a single tournament for master judoists of men's 66 kg on Saturday in Moscow, Russia. A Slovenian judoist Rok Draksic won the tournament's gold medal with a cash prize of USD 30,000. He was followed by Sugoi Uriarte of Spain, and the bronze medal went to a Russian Musa Mogushkov. Cash prizes of 20 thousand and 10 thousand were given to the runner-up and the bronze medalist. B.Khuder