For the opening ceremony winter Olympics More than 40 heads of state and government, as well as leaders of international organizations, will arrive in Sochi on February 7. In general, about 60 foreign leaders are planning to visit the events of the Olympics and Paralympics.
Official opening XXII Olympic Games will take place on February 7, the Games will end on February 23. The XI Paralympic Games will be held from 7 to 16 March.
The Olympic Games will be attended by 3 thousand athletes and 3 thousand members of delegations from 88 countries, in the Paralympic Games - 700 athletes and 700 members of officials from more than 40 countries.
The largest national team from the USA - 230 people. Among the smallest national teams are teams from Bermuda and the British Virgin Islands, from Venezuela, East Timor, Zimbabwe, with one athlete each.
The Russian national team will be the second largest after the USA - 225 athletes from 31 regions of Russia. This is the largest team for the entire time of Russia's performance in the Winter Games (at recent Games in Vancouver, the composition of the Russian team is 176 people). Most of the team consists of hockey players - 25 men and 21 girls (plus 9 reserve people). The smallest is the Nordic combined team - 4 people.
The average age of the team is 22.5 years. This is the youngest national team in the history of the country. Almost two thirds of athletes are debutants. The youngest was 15-year-old figure skater Yulia Lipnitskaya, the oldest - 42-year-old luger Albert Demchenko.
The Russian team includes 47 honored masters of sports, 99 masters of sports of international class, 61 masters of sports, 15 candidates for master of sports, including 3 Olympic champion XXI Olympic Winter Games 2010 in Vancouver and 8 world champions in Olympic disciplines.
The program of the Olympic Winter Games in Sochi includes 7 sports, uniting 15 disciplines: biathlon, bobsleigh (including skeleton and bobsleigh proper), curling, speed skating (speed running, figure skating and short track), skiing ( skiing, Nordic combined, cross-country skiing, ski jumping, snowboarding and freestyle), luge and ice hockey. The sports program consists of 98 events, 12 more than the 2010 Vancouver Games and 14 more than Turin in 2006. This is the record-setting expansion of the Olympic program in the history of the Olympic Winter Games. Of the 98 competitions, 29 will be held in the coastal cluster and 69 in the mountain cluster. V Olympic program includes new events such as women's ski jumping, mixed relay in biathlon, team figure skating, luge relay, men's and women's ski halfpipe (freestyle). At the Paralympic Games, competitions will be held in 5 sports: ice sledge hockey, wheelchair curling, biathlon, cross-country skiing and alpine skiing.
For the Olympic Games in Sochi, a record number of medals was produced - 1254: 98 Olympic sets and 72 Paralympic sets. Their production required at least 2.5 kg of 999 gold, 490 kg of 960 silver and 210 kg of bronze. The crystal in the center of each medal is made of high-strength transparent polycarbonate.
Gold Olympic medals weigh 531 grams, silver - 525 grams, bronze - 460 grams. Diameter - 100 mm, thickness - 10 mm. On the front side there are Olympic rings, on the back side - the name of the type of competition in English and the emblem of the Sochi 2014 Games. The official name of the Games in Russian, English and French is placed on the edge.
The 2014 Paralympics gold medals will be the heaviest in Olympic and Paralympic history: 686 grams. Silver ones weigh 680 grams, bronze ones - 585 grams. The obverse depicts the Paralympics symbol - three hemispheres that symbolize the mind, body and unbroken spirit. The symbol of the Paralympic Games is called Agitos, which means "I move" in Latin. The medals are inscribed in Braille.
It takes about 18 hours on average to produce one medal. In total, the cost of the project for the production of medals for the Olympics and Paralympics in Sochi amounted to more than $ 10 million.
All precious metals used for the production of Olympic awards and symbols were mined in Russia, and the sets of awards themselves were made by Russian specialists.
Athletes who won gold at the Olympic Games will additionally receive a medal with a fragment of the "Chelyabinsk" meteorite. The presentation of such awards is planned at the Russian House in Sochi on February 15 - on this day a year ago, a meteorite fell in the Chelyabinsk region.
Remuneration for Russian athletes has been established: 4 million rubles for a gold medal, 2.5 million for a silver medal, 1.7 million for a bronze.
The staff of the Olympic Games will consist of 53 thousand people, the Paralympic - 28 thousand. Of these, 25 thousand are volunteers who will work during the Olympics and Paralympics.
37 thousand policemen, 10 thousand servicemen of the internal troops, 23 thousand specialists involved in the Ministry of Emergency Situations are involved in ensuring security. All information from 5.5 thousand video cameras will be collected in a single situational center. The total cost of security is more than 57.8 million rubles.
More than 1 million people will view the Games in Sochi, and another 3 billion will watch the competition on television. The main and auxiliary media centers will employ about 14,000 journalists. The broadcast will be carried out by 90 TV and radio companies in 123 countries.
By the beginning of the Games, 363 facilities were built and reconstructed, of which 13 are directly sports facilities. 214.6 billion rubles were allocated for the construction of the Olympic facilities and the infrastructure that would ensure their functioning.
Due to the close proximity of the facilities, the Sochi Games have become the most compact in the entire 90-year history of the Winter Olympics.
Olympic Park in the Imereti Lowland / coastal cluster / is the most compact park in the history of the Winter Olympic Games. It will take no more than 20 minutes to get around all the sports grounds. The way from the Olympic village to the venue of the competition will take no more than 5 minutes.
The length of the 3S system / three-cable track / from the Alpika-Service railway station to the Laura ski and biathlon stadium is 5383 meters. It is the world's longest circular cable car. In one hour, it is capable of transporting 4.5 thousand people in one direction. Travel time from the railway station to the stadium will be only 11 minutes 25 seconds.
The Olympic torch relay, which was launched on October 6, 2013 in Moscow, runs from Kaliningrad to Vladivostok through the capitals of all 83 constituent entities of the Russian Federation, through 2.9 thousand settlements for 123 days. The relay involved 14 thousand torchbearers. The length of the route exceeds one and a half equator - more than 65 thousand km. The fire visited the North Pole, the bottom of Lake Baikal, the ISS, and Elbrus.
More than 5 thousand artists from 70 regions of Russia and foreign countries will be employed in cultural events of the Olympic and Paralympic Games.
According to the Sochi 2014 Organizing Committee, as of January 23, 2014, 1.2 million tickets for the Winter Olympics were sold. The cheapest price - 500 rubles, the most expensive / category A for the opening ceremony / - 50 thousand rubles. According to the Organizing Committee, the greatest demand among buyers was for tickets for the opening and closing ceremonies of the Olympic and Paralympic Games, as well as for ice hockey, figure skating and biathlon during the Olympics, sledge hockey and alpine skiing competitions during the Paralympics.
Since 2009, the Sochi 2014 Organizing Committee, in addition to 10 world Olympic partners, has signed agreements with 19 companies. Eight of them received the status of national partners, three - partners and eight more - suppliers. Among the national partners / Aeroflot, Russian Railways, Rosneft, Rostelecom, Sberbank, MegaFon, Bosco and VOLKSWAGEN Group Rus / five are Russian state-owned companies.
The Sochi 2014 Organizing Committee has signed 55 contracts in 45 categories with companies that have received licenses to manufacture products with Olympic symbols. It is planned to release 5 thousand items of licensed products. The number of official points of sale is 4.5 thousand. Sales revenue will exceed $ 500 million, while the income of the Organizing Committee will amount to $ 30 million.
For the Olympics, there were issued 47 types of commemorative and investment coins made of gold, silver and non-ferrous metals in the amount of 86.7 million pieces, as well as a banknote of 100 rubles. Sberbank has issued a Visa card with images of the Games' mascots and a card with a charity program for the Olympians. / TASS-DOSSIER /
Saying goodbye to the XXII Winter Olympic Games, "SE" special correspondent in Sochi Artem AGAPOV marks the main events and achievements of the Russian national team at the winter, hot ones, with a dotted line.
In Sochi-2014, the Russian national team collected 13 gold, 11 silver and 9 bronze medals... Both in the number of titles and in the amount of awards - 33 - a national Olympic record was set. In Soviet history, the bar in the form of 13 gold medals with a total of 27 medals was set in Innsbruck-1976.
All over the world, the results of the hosts of the 2014 Olympics are compared (but not equated) with the achievements of Soviet athletes who dominated the Winter Games and won seven out of nine times in the team competition from 1956 to 1988. The last time our Olympians left the first place (due to gold - 11, in total - 23 - Norway and Germany were ahead) in Lillehammer-1994. In addition, we will make a reservation that now there are more sets of awards, but the competition is higher. And Russia is the first.
However, the classical music "We are the champions!" should not drown out a sober analysis: that the hosts of the Games did not fulfill and underwent, where they didn’t get enough and didn’t get there, when they didn’t complete and didn’t get enough. This does not prevent us from paying tribute to the real heroes of the home Olympics. As nothing obscures a simple fact: the main start of the four-year period is the tip of the iceberg, it represents the tip of professional sports and sets off the long-term work of his elite.
UNCONDITIONAL PLUS
GOLDEN DOUBLE ZUBKOV
Medals of Russia (3 types - 2, 0, 0 ): Alexander ZUBKOV / Alexey VOYEVODA (deuces) - gold... Alexander ZUBKOV / Alexey VOEVODA / Dmitry TRUNENKOV / Alexey NEGODAYLO (four) - gold.
Two of the three events - for the hosts of the Games, both titles, together with Alexander Zubkov, were taken by Aleksey Voevoda. Taking into account the bobsleigh technology, perhaps it was here, together with the skeleton, that the factor of the native field - the Sanhok chute - was fully used. And in twos and fours, the first Russian crew immediately pulled ahead and after that, if you like, played on hold. In both starts, the deepest disappointment awaited Alexander Kasyanov - twice he became the fourth at a distance of 0.03 from the bronze, which again took American Stephen Holcomb both times.
TO TITLE DOWN HEAD
Medals of Russia (2 types - 1, 0, 1 ): Elena NIKITINA (women) - bronze... Alexander TRETYAKOV (men) - gold.
Russian skeletonists even slightly exceeded the medal forecast, for which thanks to Alexander Tretyakov. His confrontation with Martins Dukurs, even if the Latvians do not like it very much, ended in a convincing victory. Four equally fast acceleration times - it also happens, a strong track with a record in the first attempt - all this gave a golden result. And it worked on the high assessment of the performance of the national team in this sport.
MEMORABLE LAST
SHTIRLITS ON SKIS
Medals of Russia (12 types - 1, 3, 1 ): Dmitry YAPAROV, Alexander BESSMERTNYKH, Alexander LEGKOV, Maxim VYLEGZHANIN (relay) - silver... Maxim VYLEGZHANIN, Nikita KRYUKOV (team sprint) - silver... Alexander LEGKOV (mass start) - gold, Maxim VYLEGZHANIN (mass start) - silver, Ilya CHERNOUSOV (mass start) - bronze.
The men's section of the Russian ski team held the Games according to the traditional Olympic scheme for the whole country: it bathed in bad luck at the start and collected everything of its own and even a little more at the finish. That an individual sprint, that a team sprint was a test from the series "all the misfortunes on our heads." Obstacles tucked under their feet, their own falls, broken poles, falling skis - all this left the Russians without medals in general in the first form, to the sadness of Sergei Ustyugov and others, with silver - in the second. The answer to the troubles was first given in the silver relay, and then in the marathon, in which Legkov, Vylegzhanin and Chernousov settled for the first-second-third and organized the first Russian Olympic podium. K ra z by Petter Northug.
Like the biathletes, the skiers came out of the Games beautifully, only here the understatement - and this is again confirmed by the responsible persons and respectable experts - taking into account all the introductory notes remained, even taking into account the fact that the rivals were not at all a mistake. As for women's issues, then everything is more subtle and more complicated. We worked to our best and gave the maximum without awards for all the seriousness of the competition - this does not add whists.
Other teams had their own heroes. Marit Bjorgen won the skiathlon, team sprint (with Ingvild Ostberg) and mass start. With this, the 33-year-old Norwegian became a sixfold Olympic champion and the winner of ten medals, the most successful woman in the history of the Winter Games. Pole Justyna Kowalczyk took gold in individual race posting an x-ray of a broken foot on a social network. Swiss Dario Cologna became a two-time champion of Sochi three months after ankle surgery. As a result, Norway and Sweden collected 11 ski medals each, the first stayed ahead in gold - 5 with 2 silver and 4 bronze medals against 2 with 5 and 4, respectively.
HAVE QUESTIONS
THE ORANGE CANNOT BE RUNNING
Medals of Russia (12 types - 0, 1, 2 ): Olga GRAF (3000 m) - bronze... Olga FATKULINA (500 m) - silver... Olga GRAF, Ekaterina LOBYSHEVA, Yulia SKOKOVA, Ekaterina SHIKHOVA (team race) - bronze.
“Adler-Arena” gave the advantage of their field to the Dutch. No, passionate tribunes supported the Russians in the first and even second place, only then kindly treating the rest of the competition participants. But the ice of the oval, as it turned out, came out some Heerenveen , under Sven Kramer and company... Not without this, and also due to skill, preparation and luck, the "orange" in 12 disciplines four times occupied the entire pedestal and won 23 medals - 8 gold (and these two numbers for one type - Olympic records), 7 silver and 8 bronze. Irene Wust has collected the largest catch of Sochi awards - five.
Those who remained had two or three medals at most. At the same time, the fate of the male "lorry" was decided by 0.003 - this is how much the Pole Zbigniew Brodka won over the Dutchman Kuhn Verwey. The Russians wedged themselves in among the rest through the efforts of Olga Graf and Olga Fatkulina. In the men's segment, Denis Yuskov and Ivan Skobrev could not please with any valuable metal. Plus or minus the medal plan matched, with the exception of hopes for gold in any of the starts.
WHO IS AFTER DEMCHENKO?
Medals of Russia (4 types - 0, 2, 0 ): Albert DEMCHENKO (singles) - silver... Tatiana IVANOVA, Albert DEMCHENKO, Alexander DENISIEV / Vladislav ANTONOV (team) - silver.
Despite the convenience of "Sanhok" for domestic bobsledders and skeletonists, the factor of its own field did not work for the sledgers. Here another, more important component was important - the technical superiority of the German national team. Felix Loch, Natalie Geisenberger, Tobias Wendl and Tobias Arlt expectedly and categorically collected all the gold in Sochi, and Tatyana Hufner took another silver. The Russians still objected with the forces of Albert Demchenko. At the seventh Olympics, the 42-year-old athlete added two silver medals to the 2006 Turin vice-champion title. And he left the old question: who will be able to replace him in the near, not the distant future. Italian Armin Zoggeler, who announced his retirement, left with the fact that he became the first athlete to take medals at six Winter Olympics.
FRAME OF THE DAY
Medals of Russia (10 types - 0, 0, 1 ): Alexander SMYSHLYAEV (mogul) - bronze.
Canada collected gold-silver in the mogul among men and women, with a double by Justine and Chloe Dufour-Lapointe (the third of the sisters, Maxim, remained 12th), as well as in the women's ski cross and received the total of medals 4 + 4 + 1. The USA took the entire podium in the men's slopestyle with a total of 3 + 2 + 2, while France in ski cross with a total of 1 + 2 + 2. Belarus shot gold in acrobatics of Alla Tsuper and Anton Kushnir.
Russia has recorded as an asset a slightly unexpected bronze of Smyshlyaev in the art of descending a hilly slope with turns between two rows of gates. Well, in addition, there is something that cannot be measured with medals - for example, Yegor Korotkov's finish in the quarterfinals of ski cross competitions (contact - and dangerous for health and even life - race with various obstacles). Having got out of the blockage, the Russian in the last jerk put his hands forward and became the first after Swiss Armin Niederer in a dispute with the Swede Viktor Eling Norberg and the Finn Jouni Pellinen. This shot was the best shot of the day. There was no need to capture the awards after Smyshlyaev's surprise.
VOLUME
IN DREAMS OF A TEN
Medals of Russia (10 types): no.
Austria was out of competition on the Sochi tracks - 3 gold, 4 silver and 2 bronzes, pushing the USA (2 + 1 + 2), Switzerland (2 + 0 + 1), Germany (1 + 1 + 1) and leaving behind the wedge the best Slovenia (2 + 0 + 0). Help for the Russians, no matter how tough it may sound for athletes, now there will be four ski resorts in Sochi. The ability to dashingly descend from the mountain still needs to be trained and trained. Because it's one thing to skate for pleasure, as the famous violinist Vanessa Mae did at the Games, and it's another to pretend to be something serious. Despite the involvement of many not only our own, but also foreign specialists, our athletes are still far from the achievements of Evgeny Sidorov from 1956 and Svetlana Gladysheva from 1994 - only they from domestic skiers were noted among the medalists of the Games, and even to the limit of dreams - to be in the top ten - no one got to Sochi.
ABVACUM SAMPLE
Medals of Russia (4 types): no.
Kamil Stoch brought two gold medals to Poland, Karina Vogt and the men's team two to Germany. But Irina Avvakumova, the winner and medalist of several stages of the World Cup of the new season, did not have a “card”. In the debut form of the Games, she became the 16th, which does not recognize as a successful Olympic test. However, men cannot boast of such a result either. However, the Sochi legacy - the experience gained and the trampolines - will certainly come in handy in the future.
LAST PLACE
Medals of Russia (3 types): no.
Norway was unattainable in this form - 2 gold, 1 silver and 1 bronze. Russian biathletes, who for a long time did not have modern jumps for training, and after Vancouver actually gathered anew, did not jump over their heads. And that's putting it mildly. In a bunch of "K-95 and 10 km" Evgeny Klimov finished last, 45th, "K-125 and 10 km" - Ivan Panin took 43rd place in the final protocol, in the team competition the hosts were also left behind with a huge lagging behind.
NO REWARDS
Medals of Russia (2 types): no.
Canada in curling is like in hockey. She overtook all competitors, so that Sweden and the UK were second or third. In Russia, the men performed well for their debut at a tournament of such a high level, three wins with six defeats - it was hardly possible to achieve more. But the same statistics of girls is a sign of a game close to failure.
There is no need to make discounts on the youth of the Russian women's team, as it has victories at the European Championship. At the same time, it was not possible to achieve progress in comparison with Vancouver (the same 3-6), despite the invitation to train the Varangian Thomas Lips. Showdowns with Lyudmila Privivkova before the Olympics and smoke without fire around the mentor with Anna Sidorova during the tournament, when throwing in the squad, this could not but affect the result. Okay, medals - the Russians were supposed to go to the playoffs, this is the opinion of experts, but instead they left the stage ahead of schedule.
IN AN UNCONDITIONAL MINUS
OUT OF THE GAME
Medals of Russia (2 types): no.
In the men's Olympic tournament, Russia dreamed of gold, in the women's - "small" gold, since Canada and the United States could not keep up. Both were deeply disappointed. If for the beautiful ladies a lot came down to the problem of realization in the quarterfinals with Switzerland, then it is more difficult for Zinetula Bilyaletdinov's charges. And it's not just that our joint, players and fans, high expectations turned out to be our problem.
It is worth adding to the mournful list what I did not want to believe in - a short bench without jokers capable of shooting, individual mistakes in the game of defenders, a toothless attack with all the stardom. Pavel Datsyuk on one leg pulled Ilya Kovalchuk and Alexander Radulov, while Evgeny Malkin and Alexander Ovechkin pulled the blanket in different directions. And Zinetula Bilyaletdinov didn’t come up with a solution to the situation, whether it’s here or on the issue of the team game. Individual talents when tested at the highest level again did not come together in a collective puzzle.
The Canadian women's team won their fourth Olympics in a row with a streak of 20 unbeaten. Her final against the United States in terms of entertainment and drama overshadowed many of the men's tournament. Sidney Crosby and the company, under the skillful hand of Mike Babcock, outplayed and ground all the opponents, having suffered the most with Finland in the group round and Latvia in the quarterfinals. In the decisive duel, to which the rivals came along their "northern" path, the "maple" against Sweden simply took their toll. Second consecutive gold, first in 62 years outside of North America, and so on and so forth. While Russia was descending at the five NHL Olympics (the fiasco at the home Games can be put below the defeat from Canada in Vancouver), hard-working and collective Finns collected medals at four of them, and the Canadians drew three "stars".
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It was the XXII Winter Olympic Games in Sochi 2014. Hot, winter, ours. Thanks to all those who performed and won, cheered passionately in the stands - our people at the stadiums and volunteers are the same heroes of the Games, like the athletes, it was they who created a unique atmosphere - and experienced on TV.
Photo - AFP, REUTERS, Fyodor USPENSKY "SE", Alexander FEDOROV "SE"
Incredible facts
2014 Winter Olympics starts on Friday February 7 in Sochi and will end on February 23.
The Winter Olympics are not as big as the Summer Olympics. The Winter Olympics includes a total of 15 kinds of sports, while in summer there are 41 kinds of sports.
Here are some interesting facts about the upcoming Olympics.
Cost of the Sochi Olympics
1. This the most expensive Olympics throughout history. Its cost exceeded $ 50 billion, exceeding the original budget of $ 12 billion. In comparison, the last Winter Olympics in Vancouver cost $ 8 billion.
Participants of the Sochi Olympics
2. Never before have so many countries participated in the Winter Olympics. Total will be presented 88 countries... For the first time, Paraguay and Zimbabwe will participate.
3. The largest countries send the most athletes this year. From Russia will act 225 athletes, from the USA - 230 and from Canada - 220.
Sochi 2014 Olympics mascots
4. For the Winter Olympics in Sochi, three mascots: White Bear, Bunny and Snow Leopard... They were chosen by the audience during a vote during the All-Russian competition for the mascots of the games.
New Olympiad competitions
5. Expected 12 new competitions, which will debut at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, including a mixed team competition in figure skating and ski jumping for women.
Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics Medals
6. Athletes who win gold on February 15 will be awarded special gold medals with pieces of meteorite, which fell in Chelyabinsk on February 15, 2013.
7. Each medal weighs between 460 and 531 grams and took about 18 hours to produce. These will be the largest medals, the diameter of which reaches 10 cm. In total, 98 sets of awards will be drawn and presented to 1300 medals.
Olympic gold medal
8. Gold medals will be made of silver but they will be gold-plated. Its cost is estimated at $ 6,000. The last time, by the way, medals made of pure gold were awarded at the 1912 Olympics in Stockholm.
Olympic Torch Relay 2014
9. Overcame the Olympic flame record distance on the way to Sochi – 65,000 km... Among the modes of transport on which the Olympic flame made its way were: a car, an airplane, a train, and even a reindeer team. The torch went through more than 2900 settlements, and the torchbearers were visited by 14,000 people.
Winter Olympic Games in Sochi 2014
10. Sochi will become one of the warmest cities hosting the Winter Olympics. The city is known for its subtropical climate and in winter it is quite warm here and the temperature rarely drops below 12 degrees Celsius.
Action everywhere, from the Black Sea coast to the Krasnaya Polyana mountains. Superb competition venues for spectacular events, historic performances and numerous records - the XXII Olympic Winter Games kept all their promises. Here are the most memorable athlete exploits that took place in Sochi between 6 and 23 February 2014:
At 10.55 p.m. on Friday 7 February 2014, Russian three-time Olympic champions Irina Rodnina(pairs figure skating) and Vladislav Tretiak(ice hockey) lit the Olympic cauldron.
Norwegian biathlete Ole einar bjørndalen, winner of the sprint 10km and the new Olympic event, mixed relay, brought his medal count to 13, after starting at the Nagano Games in 1998 (8 gold, 4 silver and 1 bronze). He thus overtook his compatriot, Bjørn Daehlie, to become the Olympic Winter Games athlete with the most medals.
Norwegian cross-country skier Marit Bjørgen won three more gold medals in Sochi (skiathlon, team sprint and 30km freestyle), making a total of six since her first title in Vancouver in 2010, as well as a total of 10 medals won since the Games in Salt Lake City in 2002, becoming one of the Olympic Winter Games female athlete with the most medals (with Smetanina and Belmondo).
In Alpine skiing, gold medals were won by the youngest-ever Olympic champion in the history of the discipline, American Mikaela Shiffrin, 18 years and 345 days old, and the oldest, Austria’s Mario matt, aged 34 and 10 months. American Bode miller, third in the Super-G at the age of 36 years and 127 days, became the oldest-ever medallist in his discipline.
Japan's Ayumu hirano, 15 years and 73 days old, became the youngest ever medallist on the snow in the history of the Games, when he won the silver medal in the snowboard half-pipe competition.
Russian luger Albert Demchenko and Japanese ski jumping champion Noriaki Kasai, both in their forties, were competing in their seventh edition of the Games, both winning two medals in Sochi. Kasai also equalled the record for the longest interval between two (silver) medals: 20 years!
Like Marit Bjørgen, Belarusian biathlete Darya Domracheva and Russian short-track speed skater Victor An won three gold medals at the XXII Olympic Winter Games. But the athlete who won the most medals at these Games was Ireen Wüst, with five speed skating medals (two gold, three silver)!
Ireen Wüst was a member of the Netherlands speed skating team which won 23 medals, achieved four top-three clean sweeps and was present on every one of the 12 podiums, men’s and women’s alike. A unique domination of one discipline at the Games.
For the first time in figure skating, the 100-point barrier was broken in a short program, by Japan’s Yuzuru Hanyu(101.45), who went on to win the gold medal.
Bronze medallist in 1994, silver in 1998, gold in 2002 and 2006 and bronze in 2010 and 2014, Italian luger Armin Zöggeler became the first athlete to win six consecutive medals in six editions of the Winter Games.
The first winners of the 12 new Olympic events were:
Russia (team figure skating), Germany (luge relay), Norway (biathlon mixed relay), Germany's Carina Voigt (women's ski jumping), Canadian Dara Howell and American Joss Christensen (ski slopestyle), Americans Maddie Bowman and David Wise (ski half -pipe), Jamie Anderson and Sage Kotsenburg (snowboard slopestyle), Austrian's Julia Dujmovits and Russian Vic Wild (snowboard parallel slalom).
Winter Olympics Sochi 2014 - a stellar journey from the past to the future!
Sochi - the summer resort capital of Russia in 2014 became the capital of XXII winter olympic games that have passed since 7 to 23 February, followed by the Paralympic Games.
The XI Winter Paralympic Games in Sochi, the organizers of this large-scale event held from March 7 to March 16, 2014 in 6 sports: curling and sledge hockey in wheelchairs, cross-country skiing, biathlon, alpine skiing and para-snowboarding. 547 athletes from 45 countries took part in the Paralympic Games and 72 sets of awards were played. Russia was represented by 78 athletes.
At the XXII Winter Olympic Games, 3000 athletes from all over the world competed for 98 sets of Olympic awards in 15 sports. The most numerous delegations (more than 200 Olympians) were represented by Russia, USA, Canada. Russia has delegated 223 athletes to its Olympics. The Russian Olympic team is the youngest and most promising! The XXII Olympic Games in Sochi presented 6 new Olympic disciplines, including figure skating competitions from the top 10 national teams of the participating countries. Russia has shown to the whole world the triumph of its athletes in the Olympic and Paralympic Games! The Olympic flame was lit by renowned Russian athletes: figure skater Irina Rodnina and hockey player Vladislav Tretyak.
The Olympic Games in Sochi were attended by 88 participating countries.
Russia took the first gold place in the new Olympic discipline- team figure skating competitions.
Russia came out on top both in the total number of awards won and in the number of gold medals:
XXII Olympic Games - 33 medals (13 gold, 11 silver, 9 bronze);
XI Paralympic Games - 80 awards (30 gold, 28 silver, 22 bronze).
The XXII Winter Olympic Games in Russia predetermined the development of Sochi as a mountain climatic resort.
The air from Dagomys to the Russia-Abkhazia border was saturated with spirit Sochi Olympics 2014 year.
The heart of the city of Sochi is the Central District, where sporting events did not take place, but it was immensely responsible for receiving and accommodating fans.
The Sochi 2014 Olympic Games were held in two clusters at once: Pribrezhny and Gorny.
Coastal cluster
The coastal cluster is the Sochi Olympic Park (Adler) with sports facilities and the Fisht stadium for the opening and closing ceremonies of the Games, as well as the Main Olympic Village near the Black Sea, which hosted the athletes participating in the Sochi Winter Olympic Games.
The high-speed electric train “Lastochka” carried passengers from the Sochi railway station to both competition clusters (Pribrezhny and Gorny) using the “fan passport”. The road to the mountain cluster took about an hour. A ticket for the Lastochka Aeroexpress cost 200 rubles to the Olympic facilities from the Sochi railway station. The price of a 2014 excursion ticket for the ski lifts of the Krasnaya Polyana resort was 600 rubles.
The grandiose construction in the Lazarevskoye - Krasnaya Polyana - Abkhaz border perimeter delighted the residents of Greater Sochi with a developed infrastructure, and new sports facilities mesmerized with their futuristic forms.
Olympic Village in Sochi
Main Olympic Village in the Imereti Lowland (including the Paralympic) - the main center for the accommodation of delegations and athletes participating in the 2014 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games in Sochi.
The total area of the Main Olympic Village is 330 thousand sq. committee. On an international scale, the level of service will be 4 stars. The ceremonial laying of the first stone in the construction of the foundation of the Olympic Village took place at the end of March 2011.
In Sochi, the largest Olympic Hotel Complex in Russia was built in the Imeretinskaya Lowland on an area of 36 hectares with 3600 rooms, located within walking distance from the Olympic Park. The Hotel Complex is a whole mini-city with a developed infrastructure.
It includes: a hotel of 3-4 * level and apartments. The shopping and entertainment area includes: restaurants, bars, a supermarket, a bowling club with slot machines and a billiard room, conference rooms, a children's animation center, gyms, swimming pools and SPA, a nightclub, as well as Fan zones where people will gather together in front of huge television screens and cheer for your favorite teams.
The landscaped park area is decorated with a cascade of ponds and a boulevard - the center of the "promenade" of the complex.
The hotel "Redisson Blu" 5 * level for 500 rooms, located along the "promenade" on the first coastline on Golubaya Street, during the 2014 Winter Olympics accommodated members of the International Olympic Committee (IOC).
Embankment for the promenade was built in Sochi along the Imereti Valley. The walking area borders the Black Sea coastline and passes by the Main Olympic Village, the ice palaces of the Olympic Park, new hotels and the village of Nekrasovsky.
Main Olympic Village near the Olympic Park after the Sochi-2014 Olympics will become an object of effective, year-round and long-term use - the all-season resort complex "Sochnoe".
The private city-club "Juicy" is made in the traditions of the architecture of the Mediterranean south with buildings from three to seven floors with a predominance of white and beige colors, which goes well with palm trees and lush southern vegetation. Earlier this project had the name "Imeretinskaya Riviera". All apartments are designed for year-round comfortable rest.
Mountain cluster
The mountain cluster consists of 4 ski resorts that served the Winter Olympic Games in Sochi, the Mountain Olympic Village on the Rosa Plateau of the Rosa Khutor resort and the Additional Olympic Village (1,100 people) near the Laura ski and biathlon complex of the Gazprom OJSC resort "On the Psekhako ridge.
The Olympic Games in Sochi in the Mountain Cluster were combined into an integral sports complex:
Rosa Khutor (17.7 thousand spectators) - ski center and ExtremePark. Competitions for skiers, snowboarders and freestylers. The slopes of the Aibga ridge.
"Russian Gorki" (7.5 thousand spectators) - a complex of ski jumping. Gornaya Karusel resort. The slopes of the Aibga ridge.
Center "Sanki" (5 thousand spectators) - competitions in skeleton, bobsleigh and luge. Alpika-Service resort. The slopes of the Aibga ridge.
Two stadiums of "Laura" (7.5 thousand spectators) - biathlon, ski combined, cross-country skiing, which were held on the slopes of the Psekhako ridge. The resort of OJSC "Gazprom".
For the Olympics in Sochi, several tunnels, bridges, tens of kilometers of railway lines connecting the main Olympic village in the Imereti Lowland with the Mountain Cluster were built, and hundreds of kilometers of roads. Two highways have been laid to the Mountain Cluster from the Black Sea coast at a distance of 48 km: one is completely new, and the other is completely reconstructed.
