Yelena Isinbayeva to become head of Sochi athletes' village

PanARMENIAN.Net - Double Olympic champion and pole vault record holder Yelena Isinbayeva was named the head of the main athletes' village of the 2014 Winter Games in Sochi on Friday, Dec 14, Reuters reported.

"We have chosen Yelena Isinbayeva to be the mayor of the athletes' village in the coastal cluster," Sochi 2014 chief Dmitry Chernyshenko told reporters following a board meeting of the Russian Olympic Committee.

"Later we'll name the mayor of the mountain cluster."

Isinbayeva, 30, who won the gold at the 2004 Athens Olympics before repeating the feat four years later in Beijing, was virtually unbeatable between 2003 and 2009.

After suffering a shock defeat at the 2009 world outdoor championships in Berlin, she took a break from the sport before making a comeback last year.