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Sochi to Celebrate Handover of the Olympic Flag

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Sochi to Celebrate Handover of the Olympic Flag


09.02.2010

During the Closing Ceremony of the 2010 Olympic Games in Vancouver, the Mayor of Vancouver will pass the Olympic Flag to the Mayor Sochi, as the representative of the host city of the next Winter Games, sochi2014.com reports. Sochi residents will be able to watch the ceremony on big screens located across the city center.

During an 8-minute show, Sochi 2014 seeks to connect space and time and take the audience on a journey that takes in Vancouver, Sochi, Moscow and back to Vancouver. Participants in the Flag Handover Ceremony will include supermodel Natalia Vodianova, maestro Valery Gergiev, Olympic champions Tatiana Navka and Roman Kostomarov and international opera diva Maria Guleghina.

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