IOC president defends $51 billion Sochi Olympics price tag
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Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, speaks with Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Kozak, who oversees Sochi preparations, as he visits a ski jumping complex in Krasnaya Polyana near the Black Sea resort of Sochi, southern Russia, Wednesday, Feb. 6, 2013. The Games will take place in a coastal cluster where indoors sports such as ice-hockey will be held and in a mountain complex where athletes will compete for medals in skiing and other outdoors disciplines. (AP Photo/Sergei Karpukhin, Pool)