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Murmansk – training ground for Sochi Olympics

The 2014 Sochi Olympic Winter Games

Regional authorities in Murmansk have proposed to the Russian President that the region becomes official training ground for athletes ahead of the 2014 Sochi Olympics.

Location

-We have natural advantages for organizing this compared with other regions, Governor Dmitry Dmitriyenko says, a press release from the regional administration reads. –First of all, we have snow practically from October to May, and secondly, there are easy transport connections between Murmansk and Moscow, the regional leader says.

The regional government has prepared a number of proposals which already have been sent to the President’s administration.

-I believe this will be the most efficient, the most serious contribution from our region in the preparations to the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics, Governor Dmitriyenko says.

-And there we can not deliver results such as in Vancouver, he stresses.