Sharapova, who grew up in Sochi, said, “ I am thrilled to support Sochi 2014’s bid to host the Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games, as it will leave an unprecedented social, sporting and environmental legacy for Russia and the Olympic Movement.
“The changes Sochi 2014 will bring to this region, including state-of-the-art, custom-built winter training facilities, will mean that youngsters will not have to travel to the other side of the world to realise their potential.”
Other key ambassadors of the Sochi bid include pole-vaulter, Yelena
Isinbayeva; reigning Olympic champion figure skaters, Evgeny Plushenko, Tatyana Navka, Roman Kostomarov, Tatyana Totmyanina and Maxim Marinin; and IOC member and four-time Olympic champion swimmer, Alexander Popov.
