MOSCOW, (PNA/Itar-Tass) — A motorcade which will accompany the 2014 Olympic Torch Relay ceremony was presented in Ivanovskaya Square, a territory inside the Kremlin Wall on Thursday. President of the organising committee of the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics Dmitry Chrenyshenko attended the ceremony.
The motorcade numbers 31 Volkswagen cars. It is headed by cars carrying the chief coordinator and the Olympic Torch bearers. The motorcade includes a retro car dating back to the 1980 Moscow Olympics, and is meant to symbolise the succession of the generations.
The retro car has three symbols displayed on its body, which feature three buildings in Russia of symbolic significance to its citizens – the skyscraper of the Moscow university, the Luzhniki sports arena and the Fisht Olympic stadium in Sochi.