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The time spent after the games is considered a Foreign Office trip
where the couple are expected to makes stops in St. Petersburg and
Moscow. Their four day visit will have them spend Valentine’s Day
in the Russian Federation.
The city of Sochi is in Krasnodar Krai, Russia. It is located on
the Black Sea coast near the border between Georgia, Abkhazia and
Russia.
As a keen equestrian, she competed in the 1971 European Eventing
Championships winning a gold medal, and then again in 1975 where
she won two silver medals. The Royal was voted the BBC Sports
Personality of the Year in 1971. In 1976, she represented not only
her country but the Royal Family at the Olympic Games in Montreal
riding Her Majesty’s Horse, Goodwill.
Since 1988, the Princess has been an IOC member and was also on the
LOCOG Board. LOCOG was The London Organising Committee of the
Olympic and Paralympic Games. The board was the organisation in
charge of managing the planning and development of the 2012 Summer
Olympic and Paralympic Games.
Until her daughter, Zara Phillips, competed in the 2012 London
Olympics, Anne was the only Royal to have competed in the
international games.
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