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In Russia, this was no exception as President Vladimir Putin presented his speech to the International Olympic Committee on 4 July 2007 while making the case for the Black Sea resort of Sochi to host the 2014 Winter Olympic Games. Nevertheless, underneath this all too familiar script the Sochi Olympic story offers a privileged perspective to examine the contemporary urban, national, and international politics of Russia, which is the focus of I Putin's Olympics i . Overall, this book captures multiple insights into how the Sochi Olympic project reflected as well as shaped the multi-scalar politics of Russia in the last decade. [Extracted from the article]