After earning a silver medal in the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, Maria Sharapova certainly made her mark at the Winter Games today in Sochi, Russia, where she lived for some of her formative years. The tennis star, who chiefly resides stateside in Florida, carried the Olympic torch into Fisht Stadium, as pyrotechnics shot off overhead and classical music blared. (See the 6:59 p.m. timestamp in this by-the-minute report.)
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Published Feb 07, 2014