Ad of the Day: Coca-Cola Brings U.S.-Russia Olympic Rivalry to Space

Astronaut and cosmonaut are bitter enemies (or are they?)

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Have you heard the one about the astronaut and the cosmonaut watching hockey together in the International Space Station during the Olympics?

The American team scores against the Russian team, and the cosmonaut spills his Coca-Cola in zero gravity. But then he and the astronaut work together to slurp up all the free-floating droplets before they can wreck havoc on the vessel's electronics—because, cue fantasy, Coke brings everyone together. (The cosmonaut, amusingly enough, is the same actor from DirecTV's "Opulence, I has it" ad—seems the Russian oligarch bought his way to space.)

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