MOSCOW (AFP) — Russian prosecutors have confiscated thousands of bottles of illegal Olympic vodka, six years before the Winter Olympic Games come to Russia, an official said Wednesday.
Close to 14,000 bottles of vodka that used the Olympic name without permission were confiscated last month, according to a statement on the website for the prosecutor's office in the southern province of Krasnodar.
"It's the first such case" involving vodka production in the run-up to the winter Olympics to be held in Sochi in 2014, Yelena Kozyr, a spokesman for the Krasnodar prosecutors said on Wednesday.
The vodka, called Olympic, bore the Olympic symbol of five interlocking rings and the words Sochi 2014. The Black Sea coastal town of Sochi was chosen as the host of the games last year.
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Well clearly they were preparing for the future. By the time the Olympic games rolled around there would definitely have been enough vodka to go around, if it had not been confiscated by the government. Well I guess the importance of this post doesn't lie as much in the vodka as it does Russia being the host for the 2014 Olympic games. The Olympics and the way the games run can create positive relations for country and positive media coverage. Russia can show off what they have to offer and provide a place for people to come and enjoy sports of all kinds, but incidents of this nature (fake vodka or just fake items in general) can create a bad name for Russia. Sure it happens everywhere, a black market and ripped off goods, but its never good media when they are found. But Russia is setting a positive example by confiscating it and seeing that people don't get ripped off.
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