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Professional Sports Competitions
Professional sports competitions are sports competitions in team sports, participation in which is aimed at earning income and one of the conditions for a athlete's admission to which is the existence of labor relations between the athlete and the relevant professional sports club, unless otherwise established by the organizer of such competitions for certain categories of participants1.
Federal Law No. 329-FZ dated December 4, 2007 "On Physical Culture and Sport in the Russian Federation", as amended on July 3, 2019, Article 2, subpara. 10.3 // RSFSR Gazette. 2007. No. 50. Art. 6242. ↩