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Procter & Gamble Announces 10 Additional Partnerships with U.S. Olympic Athletes

Sasha Cohen, Julia Mancuso among Total Team of 16 P&G U.S. Athletes
 
7 Jan 2010 , Cincinnati : Procter & Gamble (NYSE:PG) announced today that it has extended its series of U.S. Olympic Team athlete marketing alliances to include an additional 10 athletes. The marketing alliances will extend through the 2010 Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver and comes on the heels of a September 2009 sponsorship announcement of six U.S. Olympians.
U.S. Olympians recently included in the partnership are:

Rockne Brubaker - U.S. National Champion, pairs skating
JR Celski - World Champion, short track speedskating
Julie Chu - World Champion, hockey
Sasha Cohen - U.S. National Champion, Olympic silver medalist, figure skating
Chad Hedrick - Olympic gold medalist, long track speedskating
Nicole Joraanstad - U.S. National Champion, curling
Julia Mancuso - Olympic gold medalist, alpine skiing
Keauna McLaughlin - U.S. National Champion, pairs skating
Noelle Pikus-Pace - FIBT World Champion, skeleton
Seth Wescott - Olympic gold medalist, snowboarding (boardercross)

Brubaker, Celski, Chu, Joraanstad, Mancuso, McLaughlin and Wescott are affiliated with Crest(R); Cohen is affiliated with Pepto(R), and Hedrick and Pikus-Pace are affiliated with Pampers(R).

Previously signed athletes include:
Allison Baver - U.S. National Champion, short track speedskating
Tanith Belbin - Olympic silver medalist, ice dancing
Vonetta Flowers - Olympic gold medalist, bobsled
Lindsey Jacobellis - Olympic silver medalist, snowboarding (boardercross)
Apolo Ohno - Five-time Olympic medalist, short track speedskating
Lindsey Vonn - Two-time World Champion, alpine skiing

"The addition of these world-class athletes to our current roster further accentuates our commitment to Team USA and the USOC partnership," said Kirk Perry, Vice President, North America for P&G. "We are so proud to be affiliated with athletes who are achieving their personal best, while P&G products help them and people around the world achieve their personal best every day."

The athletes will be fully integrated across numerous marketing channels, including advertising, public relations, in-store merchandising, mobile, digital and direct mail. The integration supports the P&G 17-brand marketing partnership with the United States Olympic Committee (USOC), across five USOC sponsorship categories for the 2010 Olympic Winter Games and the 2012 Olympic Games.

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About the USOC
The United States Olympic Committee (USOC) is recognized by the International Olympic Committee as the sole entity in the United States whose mission involves training, entering and underwriting the full expenses for the U.S. teams in the Olympic, Paralympic, Pan American and Parapan American Games. In addition to being the steward of the U.S. Olympic Movement, the USOC is the moving force for support of sports in the United States that are on the program of the Olympic, Paralympic, Pan American and Parapan American Games. Please visit http://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.teamusa.org&esheet=6134002&lan=en_US&anchor=www.teamusa.org&index=2&md5=b0cfcff285b5fa2a358cdc6265258761 for more information.
 
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