VOLKSWAGEN Group Rus supports the Russian team at the Vancouver Olympic Games 

The VOLKSWAGEN Group Rus team, represented by specialists from Volkswagen, Audi, Skoda, and Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles, arrived in Vancouver, Canada, to support the Russian national team at the XXI Winter Olympic Games.

As the General Partner of the Sochi 2014 Organising Committee, the company and the four brands are participating in the Sochi 2014 Russian House, which is the official location of the Russian delegation.

The Russian House has opened a VOLKSWAGEN Group Rus pavilion, where athletes, journalists, and Russian House guests can sign up for a tour of the centre and picturesque outskirts of Vancouver in a Volkswagen car.

The brand Volkswagen organized a promotion “We're Driving the Athletes Home!”, during which Russian Olympic Champions and celebrated athletes will sign the bonnet of a Volkswagen Tiguan. Later this vehicle will go to Russia and participate in the promotion of Sochi 2014 Games.

“We are proud that we can support the Russian team, and that, in cooperation with the Sochi 2014 Organising Committee, we will present the first-ever Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games in Russia on an international level. Particularly that since the launch of our Kaluga plant we have become a Russian car manufacturer. We will hold a VOLKSWAGEN Group Rus Day at the Russian Sochi 2014 House on 27 February, to which we are inviting all the sport, political, and business elite of Russia,” says Dietmar Korzekwa, general director of VOLKSWAGEN Group Rus.

“In cooperation with our partner, the Sochi 2014 Organising Committee, we intend to initiate the Sochi 2014 campaign, which will be starting this year,” says Martin Jahn, vice general director of VOLKSWAGEN Group Rus.

Supporting the Olympic Games is becoming a tradition for Volkswagen Group, which was a partner of the previous Olympic Games, which took place in Beijing in 2008. In two weeks, Sochi will take the baton from Vancouver to become the capital of the next Winter Olympics.