Sochi’s bid to host the 2014 Winter Olympic Games will receive the personal backing of Russian president Vladimir Putin when the IOC meet next month.
Officials have confirmed Putin will travel to Guatemala to lend his support to the city’s efforts to win the right to host the event.
Guatemala is hosting the IOC assembly which will vote on the host city on July 4.
Other candidate cities are South Korea’s Pyeongchang and Austria’s Salzburg.
Putin has already openly supported the bid from the Black Sea resort. Russia has never hosted the Winter Games.
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