Alexei Nemov, Editor-in-Chief of BOLSHOI Sport, four-time Olympic champion, and member of the Laureus World Sports Academy, will once again invite his friends – famous Russian and international athletes, as well as members of the athletic, political, and business establishment – to ‘Sochi – Moscow – Rio’ gala reception to be held on May 20 at the Vetoshny Art Center in Moscow.

This event will be a logical extension of the reception which Alexei Nemov held last October on the eve of the Sochi Olympic Games. While at the time Nemov and his friends wanted to wish the athletes to be victorious at the upcoming Games, this time they will gather to celebrate the winners, to thank once again all those who made the Sochi Games the most successful Winter Olympics in Russia’s post-Soviet history, and to pass the torch from the winter sports athletes to the summer sports athletes who have already started preparing for the 2016 Olympic Games to be held in Rio de Janeiro.

Mercedes-Benz and Donstroy will be the official partners of the event.