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The Prime Minister of Russia, Vladimir Putin, and the President of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), Jacques Rogge, met in Beijing just hours before the Opening Ceremony of the 2008 Olympic Games. During the meeting they agreed to the foundation of the world's first ever Olympic university: the Russian International Olympic University (RIOU), which will be built in Sochi's Olympic Park.

Sochi 2014 presented its first progress report to the IOC Wednesday. Dmitry Chernyshenko, President and CEO of Sochi 2014, said that the Sochi Venue and Infrastructure Construction Schedule, which was due for submission on August 1, was tendered to the International Olympic Committee (IOC) ahead of schedule. The plan outlines that the construction of all Olympic venues will start no later than 2009 and all sports facilities will be completed by the end of 2012 for a full Test Event program.

Two Olympic Games Organizing Committees paved a new way for inter Games cooperation when they held a joint event at the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games to help share knowledge, promote friendship and encourage participation in winter sport around the world.

The Mayor of the Beijing 2008 Olympic and Paralympic Village, Zhili Chen, today took the Prime Minister of the Russian Federation, Vladimir Putin for a tour of the Athletes’ Village in Beijing, accompanied by the Chairman of the Sochi 2014 Supervisory Board, Alexander Zhukov and the President and CEO of Sochi 2014, Dmitry Chernyshenko.

Today, the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) has taken further action to promote Paralympic sports and the Paralympic Movement by launching a Channel on YouTube™, the leading online video community that allows people to discover, watch and share originally created videos.