His Highness General Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander of the U.A.E. Armed Forces, has visited the Sochi Olympic Park, located on the shores of the Black Sea in Russia, which hosted the Winter Olympics last February.
During the tour of the Olympic park, which was made on the sidelines of his visit to Russia, His Highness General Sheikh Mohamed was accompanied by H.H. Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Foreign Minister, Omar Saif Ghobash, Ambassador of the U.A.E. to Russia, and Dmitriev Kiril Alexandrovich, President of ICON, the Russian Private Equity Investment Fund.
The tour included visiting the park's facilities, including the Sochi Formula 1 Circuit, where His Highness met the Deputy General-Director of the Formula 1 Russian Grand Prix, Sergey Vorobyev, who explained the technical specifications and modern techniques used in the 5.8 kilometre circuit, which can accommodate 55,000 spectators.