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(Date Posted:09/08/2008 08:30:34)
http://www.fontanka.ru/2008/08/08/047/
here's a rough translation
Petersburg is ready to Olympiad
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The attribute has thought up the Union of sportsmen of Russia, but to begin it for some reason has solved from Petersburg. On Friday from 11.45 ???????? have started to distribute on angle Small Garden and the Neva prospectus. Well and the first they were received by veterans of sports - passengers of " an Olympic tram ».
This tram has departed exactly at midday from the house 50-ü in Garden street where in 1911 in a former Imperial society of rescuing on waters the Olympic committee of Russia has been created. A tram have plentifully decorated with symbolics and sports posters with portraits of the Petersburg Olympians, and also the schedule of games in Pekin. And veterans of sports were passed on it by the first. Among the first passengers the same petersburgers who not so long ago bore an Olympic torch on streets of Petersburg:Galina Zybina, Jury Tjukalov, Egorov, Tatyana Kazankina, Alexander Ditjatin, Victor Zhdanovich, Alexey Urmanov, Alexey Jagudin, Arthur Dmitriev, Anatoly Alyabyev's Love and many other things. About victories and a life of each of them it is possible to write the whole book.....
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~Andrea~
http://www.andrealovescolor.etsy.com
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