Sharapova Opens Her First Candy Store In Russia

Written by: Staff on 3rd May 2013

Sharapova Opens Her First Candy Store In Russia |

Maria Sharapova found the time during this week’s lightning visit to Moscow for a Sugarpova candy launch to get in a plug for her one-time home of Sochi, Russia.

The ski-and-sun city located 1,600 kilometers south of the capital on the Black Sea, is the scene for next winter’s Olympics. Sharapova added that she will make an effort to return for the February 7-23 Games. “I’m very happy that we’ll have the Olympics,” she told Russian television.”

The Siberian-born 26-year-old lived with her family for a period in Sochi after her parents left the adjoining Ukraine, scene of the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear plant disaster, which took place a year before her April, 1987 birth.

She eventually landed in Florida in 1994 at the age of seven with her father Yuri to begin what has become one of the most successful of women’s tennis careers.

“When I’d just flown to America, I told everyone that I was from Sochi. No one knew about it,” said the world marketing icon and best compensated woman in all of world sport. “I hope the Olympics will change that, and that everyone will know what a wonderful city there is in Russia.”

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