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Summary The International Olympic Committee has promised best facilities to athletes at 2014 Winter Games.
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) promised athletes on Thursday the treatment of their lives when they visit Russias host city of Sochi for the 2014 Winter Games.The IOCs chief Sochi inspector Jean-Claude Killy called the Olympic Village conditions in Sochi impeccable and predicted a level of services not seen at any other winter competition.I am not exaggerating: we are witnessing impeccable work, Russian media quoted Killy as saying during his eighth inspection tour of the site.Russia plans to spend some $20 billion on facility and infrastructure construction in the Black Sea summer resort -- chosen for its nearby mountains following an intense personal push by President Vladimir Putin.The Sochi Games offer Putin a chance to showcase his Russian achievements to a world audience. They already involve the collective investment of the countrys largest and most important firms as well as state financing.The Russian Olympics Committee says they intend to host a total of 47 competitions before the Games open on February 7, 2014 to make sure that all the venues are up to scratch.The city has also received an additional 42,000 hotel rooms as it prepares to start receiving a flood of international guests.The Soviet-era Sochi resort was a disheveled city lacking investments and losing tourists for most of the two decades that elapsed before real Olympic construction commenced.Putin now hopes to turn the city into an international travel destination point that provides foreigners a launching pad for longer vacations in the lush Black Sea region.
