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		<title>Bronze for Voevoda in Vancouver!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Feb 2010 17:54:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erik</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sochi native Alexey Voevoda (Алексей Воевода), and his teammate Alexandr Zubkov won Olympic bronze medal yesterday in two-man bobsleigh event in Vancouver!
This is Alexey&#8217;s second Olympic medal &#8211; he won silver in the four-man bobsleigh event at the 2006 Olympic Games in Turin.
Congratulation Alexey!


Alexey Voevoda
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		<title>Sochi fighter brings Gold from Thailand</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Dec 2009 22:25:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erik</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Grigor Matevossyan]]></category>
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Grigor Matevossyan (Григор Матевосян) from Sochi, member of Russia Junior Thai Boxing team, has won gold medal in the Cruiser Weight category (under 86 kg) at the IFMA Muay Thai World Championship 2009 which took place earlier this month.
Links: International Federation of Muaythai Amateur. The official results card for male juniors. Photo: sochi-news.ru
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		<title>Sochi-natives in Beijing Olympics</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Aug 2008 07:41:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erik</dc:creator>
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Elena Vesnina (Елена Веснина)
Tennis [beijing2008, wiki]
Event: Women&#8217;s Doubles


Victoria Gurova (Виктория Гурова)
Athletics [beijing]
Event: Women&#8217;s Triple Jump

Vladimir Karpets (Владимир Карпец)
Cycling Road [beijing, wiki]
Events: Men&#8217;s Individual Time Trial, Men&#8217;s Road Race
* sochi2014.com reports he&#8217;s Sochi native, but everywhere else I look &#8211; he&#8217;s from St.-Petersburg. Important thing he&#8217;s from Russia :-)


Tatiana Bazyuk (Татьяна Базюк)
Sailing [beijing]
Event: RS:X Women
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		<title>Elena Vesnina &#8211; Sochi rep in FedCup</title>
		<link>http://www.sochi-travel.info/articles/elena-vesnina-sochi-rep-in-fedcup/</link>
		<comments>http://www.sochi-travel.info/articles/elena-vesnina-sochi-rep-in-fedcup/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Feb 2008 01:09:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erik</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I didn&#8217;t know this, but Elena Vesnina, Russian tennis player, member of Russian FedCup team, lives in Sochi!
Russia is currently ranked number one in FedCup rankings. Number one, baby! :-)
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		<title>Maria Sharapova Backs Sochi 2014 Olympic Bid</title>
		<link>http://www.sochi-travel.info/articles/maria-sharapova-backs-sochi-2014-olympic-bid/</link>
		<comments>http://www.sochi-travel.info/articles/maria-sharapova-backs-sochi-2014-olympic-bid/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2007 03:23:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erik</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[International tennis star Maria Sharapova has thrown her support behind Sochi&#8217;s bid for the 2014 Olympic Winter games.
The 20 year-old has won both Wimbledon and the US Open, and was the first Russian player to top the WTA rankings.
&#8220;I lived [in Sochi] for five years&#8221; Sharapova told GamesBids.com in an exclusive interview from Los Angeles, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Armenian language competition in Sochi</title>
		<link>http://www.sochi-travel.info/articles/armenian-language-competition-in-sochi/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Mar 2007 04:25:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erik</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Forty seven students took part in Sochi local Armenian literary language competition.
Sochi is very multi-cultural city. People of over 100 different nationalities live in Sochi, with largest minority group being Armenians. According to census of year 2000, 17% of 420 000 Sochi residents are of Armenian nationality, and according to Russian migration agencies this number [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Alexey Voevoda — 2000-2004 arm-wrestling world champion</title>
		<link>http://www.sochi-travel.info/articles/alexey-voevoda-armwrestling-world-champion/</link>
		<comments>http://www.sochi-travel.info/articles/alexey-voevoda-armwrestling-world-champion/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Feb 2007 03:12:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erik</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the coolest things about writing about something (my city in this case) is that while digging for more details you can learn so many things that you didn&#8217;t know before!
For example, today I found out that Sochi resident, and member of Russian National Bobsleigh Team Alexei Voevoda was once a professional arm-wrestler and he [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sochi residents protest against Olympics plans</title>
		<link>http://www.sochi-travel.info/articles/sochi-residents-protest-against-olympics-plans/</link>
		<comments>http://www.sochi-travel.info/articles/sochi-residents-protest-against-olympics-plans/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Jan 2007 06:07:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erik</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Events]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Olympics 2014]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[People]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In December 2006 some Sochi residents rallied against holding the Olympic Games in Sochi. The major concerns that they brought up were dense building constructions, ecological impact of the rapid development, and already overloaded transportation infrastructure, writes &#8220;Novaya Gazeta Kubani&#8221; newspaper.
December is not today, but this is recent, and still is of current importance.
I can [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sochi is on Maria Sharapova&#8217;s Top 10 list</title>
		<link>http://www.sochi-travel.info/articles/sochi-is-on-maria-sharapova-top-10-list/</link>
		<comments>http://www.sochi-travel.info/articles/sochi-is-on-maria-sharapova-top-10-list/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Dec 2006 19:03:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erik</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today Maria Sharapova was named best-looking female athlete by the Sports Illustrated magazine.
You all know who she is &#8211; gorgeous girl and successful tennis player. But do you know that she started playing tennis in Sochi? That’s right! When she was two years old her family moved to Sochi, where, at the age of four, [...]]]></description>
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