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Sochi 2014 Olympic Gifts

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People can now purchase Sochi 2014 Winter Olympic and Paralympics gifts and souvenirs as these are now available from their recently launched online shop. You can see these items on sale in Russia's largest retail chains.
These products include radio controlled helicopters and the mascot of the Games. Interested consumers can now buy these items.

In the new year, a wider range of products will be offered including darts, balls, ice-sleds, educational games, puzzles and inflatable toys among others.

All items will have the Sochi 2014 logo as they go on sale in Russian post offices and other high street shops and retailers.

Gifts are available from as little as 54 rubles (£1.10/$1.70/€1.30) while card payments are only accepted from the official Olympic partner Visa.

 

Last Updated on Wednesday, 25 January 2012 12:22
 

Sochi will release a 100-ruble banknote for the Olympic Games

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The Russian Olympic Committee and the Central Bank have come up with a concept to introduce 
in the Olympic Games in Sochi, which will be held in 2014. The special hundred-ruble note will be released for the coming Sochi Olympic games, reported by the newspaper “Izvestia”.

According to the newspaper, the new bill will be exactly one hundred days before the Olympics, that is, at the end of 2013. With the design of banknotes officials have not decided yet. It is also unknown, and exact copies of issue.

If the newspaper is confirmed, the new release will be the first major modification of a hundred-ruble notes from the time of its introduction, that is, since 1997. Usually, central banks for the Olympics Games host countries produce coins, not bills. Thus, the Organizing Committee of Sochi have already announced that by 2014 10 million minted coins to 25 rubles.

The first country, which released “Olympic notes,” was China who took the Olympic Games in 2008. On these banknotes for the first time in a long time has not been shown, Mao Zedong.

 

Sochi Olympics 2014: Catalyst of Building Extreme Hotels in Russia

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A new hotel brand, Extreme Hotels and its management team is revolutionizing the hospitality business. This hotel has a very unique goal as it aims to serve the needs of extreme snowboarders, speed skiers, ice climbers, skateboarders and anything like these.

Owned by the Extreme Sports Company, the Extreme Hotels brand strives to be the first extreme hotels in Sochi, Russia. Al Gosling, the top guy of this extreme sports dynasty, hopes to have the Sochi property open by 2015. The Sochi location was selected due to it being the site of the 2014 Winter Olympics.

Gosling expects to benefit from the global attention that the area will receive during the Sochi Olympics in 2014. It will be the first time that the Russian Federation has hosted the Winter Olympics, and it already has sports fans talking. The Sochi people have plans to host Olympic events both on the coast and within the Krasnaya Polyana Mountains.

The hotel can be found close to the 2014 Winter Olympic venues and is expected to have 209 guest rooms, along with such extreme amenities as a freestyle snowboarding park, a skatepark, BMX course, zip lines and rock climbing. Sounds like my kind of place. Of course, it is also expected to include more mundane amenities such as a sports bar and restaurant, game room and concierge services. Other extreme hotels are planned for the Cape Verde Islands, Switzerland, Albania and United Kingdom.

 

Translation and Interpreting Services Will Be Offered to Visitors of Sochi 2014

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During Sochi 2014 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games, there will be more than 1,000 translators and interpreters will be offering expertise to visitors to the Black Sea resort.

This was announced at the Sochi 2014 Translation Forum, the first of its kind in Olympic history, held in the host city of the Winter Games.

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President of IOC Says Sochi Olympics Will Be a Grand Event

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IOC head has commended Russian organizers for making important progress in preparations for the 2014 Sochi Winter Games.

Jacque Rogge, president of IOC is in the Black Sea resort to attend meetings of the European Olympic Committees. The IOC head was taken on a tour of the venues Thursday by Dmitry Chernyshenko, head of Sochi's local organizing committee.

Rogge mentioned that he saw notable improvement since his last visit to Sochi almost two years ago.

The head of the IOC's coordination commission for Sochi, Jean-Claude Killy, said the preparations were right on track and the Sochi Olympics will be a "grandiose event."

Russia's Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Kozak revealed that the building of all facilities of Sochi's mountain cluster should be complete by this year and they will host international ski, freestyle and biathlon events next February and March.

"These national and international competitions will allow us to taste the greatness of the future grandiose event and at the same time test the personnel and main Olympic facilities," he said.

Kozak said that the government may even consider subsidizing loan rates for some private investors involved in Sochi construction projects. He also added that it wouldn't result in any significant increase when it comes to costs.

Last Updated on Wednesday, 07 December 2011 13:00
 
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