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Sochi 2014 Goes All Out For Olympic Bid

Sochi Mayor Viktor Kolodyazhny told Itar-Tass that Sochi authorities “are going out of their way” to win the right to host the 2014 Winter Olympics. He said, “we are exerting maximum efforts to build all the planned sport installations to provide all the required transport and hotel services, and to put up all the necessary infrastructures. Everything will be in keeping with the standards of the International Olympic Committee (IOC).

“The unique nature of this largest Russian health resort, multiplied by the activity of investors and the political backing of the country’s top leadership, add up to boost Sochi’s chances to win the right to host the Winter Olympics”, he said.

The mayor said that work to build the first mountain skiing installations would start soon.

Eleven sport installations will be grouped into two separate complexes, with the distance between the two equalling forty-eight kilometres.

The stands will hold 200,000 spectators, which Sochi 2014 says is according to the IOC requirements.

Meanwhile a Sochi 2014 executive delegation has just returned from the International Ski Federation’s 40th Congress in Vilamoura Portugal.

At the congress the delegation studied the ski federation’s requirements regarding host cities of international winter sports events and listened to the views and needs of ski industry professionals.

Sochi 2014 said the knowledge gained from the trip will serve in the development of Sochi 2014’s plans for the organization of all skiing events and construction of appropriate venues in the “beautiful” mountains of Krasnaya Polyana, less than 40 minutes away from Sochi’s centre.

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