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1/16/08
Russia Now Officially Even With China In Terms of Bizarre Olympic Plans
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In late September of last year, if you read the St. Petersburg Times (and I do every day), then you may have noticed an article about an idea that sounded like something out of a James Bond film.

Soviet Russia said it wanted to build a 350-hectare artificial island in the shape of the country just off the Black Sea coast near the future Olympic venue site Sochi (Sochi is located in Southwest Russia near the Caucasus Mountains). It was estimated to cost around $6.2 billion, to house solely Olympic athletes for the 2014 Games, and to be called, wait for it, Federation Island. What, Gulag Island wasn't cheery enough?

Naturally the idea seemed ridiculous. What do the Russians know about building man-made islands? Why would they automatically put themselves in the red for the Olympics? And who in God's name came up with that name?

Anyway, the idea basically fell out of the public conciousness. And not many people seemed to think it would happen. That is until last week.

On Friday, Japanese firms officially committed to building this thing. And yes, it'll still be built in the shape of Mother Russia. Here are the initial designs.




I wish Russia all the best in building this thing. I just hope our brave Olympic athletes manage to escape from Federation Island before it becomes a secret home base for the bad guys of SPECTRE.


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I won't be mad if our basketball team doesn't win the gold. As a matter of fact, I wouldn't mind if we just sent 12 of our most hated basketball players just in case Federation Island turns out to be as bad as it sounds.
 
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They would get better results by investing the  6.2 billion  in steroid masking technology...Carl Lewis could find work too!
 
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Maybe they will find the survivors of flight 815 there.
 
 
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