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On 1 September 2010, the Sochi 2014 Organising Committee will open a Russian national competition to design a Mascot for the 2014 Sochi Olympic and Paralympic Games.

The Sochi 2014 Organizing Committee and the Publishing and Trading Centre “Marka” have today signed a licensing agreement which grants “Marka” the right to issue post and philatelic items with the Sochi 2014 emblem.

The Sochi 2014 Organising Committee has announced the start of the Russian national "Olympic Teacher" competition 2010.

Theodore Oben, head of the Outreach Unit at the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), today praised Sochi 2014’s leadership in environmental protection, highlighting that he has “a strong feeling that Sochi 2014 will be successful” in environmental protection.

The Russian delegation, headed by Alexander Zhukov, President of the Russian Olympic Committee, has visited the Olympic Village on the opening day of the First Youth Olympic Games in Singapore.

Russia will be represented by a strong team of 124 athletes at the first Youth Olympic Games, which opens tomorrow in Singapore.

The Hydrometcentre of Russia has begun the trial operation of two environmental observation centres in the construction zone of the Olympic park in the Imeretinskaya Valley.

The “Sport in the Name of the World” festival has been held at the all-Russian children’s centre “Orlyonok” (“Eaglet”). Guests at “Eaglet” included the bobsleigh Olympic silver and bronze medallist, Sochi 2014 Ambassador, honoured Russian master of sport and three-time world champion in arm-wrestling, Alexey Voevoda.

The first section of the combined road built by JSC Russian Railways– Sochi 2014 General Partner - is 6 km long and connects the Imereti lowland with the existing highway to Krasnaya Polyana, bypassing the urban boundaries of Adler.

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) announced that for the first time in the history of the Olympic Movement, a blogger will be able to cover the Olympic events alongside the traditional mass media, having been officially accredited for the First Youth Olympic Games which open in Singapore on 14 August 2010.

Sochi 2014 Organising Committee is deeply saddened that, after a life of tremendous contributions to skiing, Jan Erik Hedström passed away after suffering a heart attack early this morning.

The plan – that will take the ROC through until 2020 – aims to provide Russian athletes with the best possible facilities for training and will benefit Russian performance at Sochi 2014.

Dmitry Chernyshenko, President and CEO of the Sochi 2014 Organising Committee, met the Russian President Dmitry Medvedev to update him about the upcoming test competitions as well as presenting a multimedia illustration of the staging of the Sochi 2014 Olympic Winter Games.

Rosa Khutor, the major ski resort in the Sochi region, is set to host 11 different sporting competitions when the Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games come to Sochi in 2014.

The XXII Winter Olympic Games, scheduled for February 7-23, 2014, will include competitions in 11 different sports.

At the International Sports Forum, "Russia – Country of Sport," Dmitry Chernyshenko unveiled the plan to launch the Sochi 2014 Mascot.