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Winter Olympic Games - 2014 to be held in Sochi

Almaty. July 5. Kazakhstan Today - Winter Olympic Games will be held in 2014 in the Russian city-resort Sochi. The decision was made at the session of the International Olympic Committee in Guatemala, the agency reports referring to foreign mass media.

Sochi has won over South-Korean Pyeongchang County with overweight of four votes.

As it was informed earlier, for the right to become the candidate on carrying out of Olympic Games-2014 seven cities competed including Almaty. In 2006 three short listed cities - Sochi (Russia), Salzburg (Austria) and Pyeongchang (South Korea) have been defined in the Swiss city of Lausanne at the session of the International Executive Olympic Committee.

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