In July 2007, Vladimir Putin pledged to spend $12 billion on the Olympic games in Sochi. Over time, it was discovered somewhere around $6.8 billion of that proposed money was going to go to one road: the Adler–Krasnaya Polyana. It's the most expansive project made for the games – a 28-mile roadway and 30-mile railroad with 36 bridges that will bring spectators from the airport to events in the Caucus Mountains.

By comparison, the Vancouver Winter Olympic Games, in total, cost $1.5 billion.

Two no-bid contracts were awarded to companies that are run by alleged friends of the Putin administration. In 2010, Esquire Russia decided to illustrate the true cost of the road in the simplest way possible: What if all of those construction costs were spent paving the road with luxury items -- end to end -- instead of cement?

The same road paved entirely with foie gras, for example, would be 8.6 inches thick, from airport to halfpipe.

"One problem, though," says Esquire Russia Editor-in-Chief Dmitri Golubovsky, "Since we've done the piece, the road got even more expensive -- from 227 billion rubles (about $6.8 billion) to 285 billion rubles ($8.6 billion)."

So add a little more caviar sidewalk to the blender you see below. And check out the original math over at Esquire Russia.

Oysters: 6.37 cm (2.51 inches) thick

Caviar: 1.1 cm (0.43 inches) thick

Louis Vuitton handbags: 9 cm (3.54 inches) thick

Foie gras: 21.9 cm (8.62 inches) thick

$100 bills (USD): 0.028 cm (0.01 inches) thick

Fur coats: 4.7 cm (1.85 inches) thick

Truffles: 6 cm (2.36 inches) thick

Hennessy: 13.85 cm (5.45 inches) thick

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