The Propaganda Olympics

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4. In an Olympic Record, More Than 50 World Leaders to Attend Sochi Games

SOCHI, February 7 (R-Sport) – The Sochi Olympics have barely begun yet already the first world record looks sure to be smashed: More than 50 heads of state and government are to attend Friday's opening ceremony.

Among the leaders are Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, Italian Prime Minister Enrico Letta, Chinese President Xi Jinping and Norway’s King Harald V and Prime Minister Erna Solberg.

"The Games in Sochi will be record-setting in the history of the Winter Games in terms of attendance of heads of state and government," the Games organizers told R-Sport in a statement.

"That's more than at the last two Games in Turin and Vancouver combined," they added.

US President Barack Obama and British Prime Minister David Cameron are among the more conspicuous names to have turned down invitations; while French President Francois Hollande declared in December he would not attend and German President Joachim Gauck explicitly cited Russia's human rights record as the reason he would skip it.

http://en.ria.ru/sochi2014/20140207/187299658/In-an-Olympic-Record-More-Than-50-World-Leaders-to-Attend-Sochi.html

Obama and British Prime Minister Gordon Brown didn't attend the Vancouver Olympics and Gauck who is East German won't go to Russian anyway as a matter of principal.