What month was the Olympics in? XXII Olympic Winter Games in Sochi. February: gold in parallel slalom and biathlon, bronze in speed skating in the team race

Winter Olympics Sochi 2014 - a star journey from the past to the future!

Sochi - the summer resort capital of Russia in 2014 became the capital of the XXII winter olympic games who have passed since 7 to 23 February, followed by the Paralympic Games.

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 wheelchair hockey, ski race, biathlon, alpine skiing and para-snowboarding. 547 athletes from 45 countries took part in the Paralympic Games and 72 sets of medals were awarded. Russia was represented by 78 athletes.

At the XXII Olympic Winter Games, 3,000 athletes from all over the world competed for 98 sets 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 10 best national teams of the participating countries. Russia showed the whole world the triumph of its athletes in the Olympic and Paralympic Games! olympic fire famous Russian athletes: figure skater Irina Rodnina and hockey player Vladislav Tretiak.

The Olympic Games in Sochi involved 88 participating countries.

Russia took the first gold place in the new Olympic discipline- team competitions in figure skating.

Russia came out on top both in terms of the total number of awards won and 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 holding of 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 filled with the spirit of the 2014 Sochi Olympics.

The heart of the city of Sochi is the Central District, where sports competitions did not take place, but it had a huge responsibility for receiving and accommodating fans.

The Sochi 2014 Olympic Games were held in two clusters at once: Coastal and Mountainous.

coastal cluster

The coastal cluster is Olympic park Sochi (Adler) with sports facilities and the stadium for the opening and closing ceremonies of the Fisht games, as well as the Main Olympic Village near the Black Sea, where the athletes participating in the Winter Olympic Games in Sochi were accommodated.

The high-speed train "Lastochka" carried passengers from the Sochi railway station to both competitive clusters (Pribrezhny and Gorny) using a "fan ID". The road to the mountain cluster took about an hour. A ticket for the Aeroexpress "Lastochka" cost 200 rubles to the Olympic venues 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 perimeter of Lazarevskoye - Krasnaya Polyana - Abkhazian border delighted the residents of Greater Sochi with a developed infrastructure, and new sports facilities fascinated 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 square meters, where 50 houses (1.5 thousand rooms) for 3 thousand people and 12 seven-story houses of the Complex of Facilities and Buildings for 1285 rooms have already been built to accommodate the Olympic Family and the International Paralympic committee. According to the international rating scale, the level of service will be 4 stars. The solemn laying of the first stone in the construction of the foundation of the Olympic Village took place at the end of March 2011.

The largest Olympic Hotel Complex in Russia was built in Sochi in the Imeretinskaya lowland on the territory of 36 hectares for 3600 rooms, located within walking distance from the Olympic Park. The Hotel Complex is a whole mini-city with a developed infrastructure.
It includes: 3-4* level hotel 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, GYM's, swimming pools and SPA, night club, as well as the Fan zone, where people will gather around huge TV screens and cheer for their favorite teams.

The landscape park area is decorated with a cascade of ponds and a boulevard - the center of the "promenade" of the complex.

Hotel "Redisson Blu" level 5 * for 500 rooms, located along the "promenade" on the first coastline on Golubaya Street, during the Winter Olympics 2014 housed members of the International Olympic Committee (IOC).
Embankment for the promenade was built in Sochi along the Imeretinskaya valley. The walking area borders the Black Sea coastline and passes by the Main Olympic Village, ice palaces 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, which goes well with palm trees and lush southern vegetation. Previously, this project had the name "Imeretinskaya Riviera". All apartments are designed for year-round comfort.

mountain cluster

The mountain cluster is 4 ski resort, which 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 (1100 people) near the Laura ski and biathlon complex of the Gazprom 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) is a ski center and ExtremePark. Competitions skiers, snowboarders and freestylers. Slopes of the Aibga Ridge.

"Russian Gorki" (7.5 thousand spectators) - a ski jumping complex. Resort "Mountain Carousel". Slopes of the Aibga Ridge.

Center "Sanki" (5 thousand spectators) - competitions in skeleton, bobsleigh and luge. Resort "Alpika-Service". Slopes of the Aibga Ridge.

Two stadiums "Laura" (7.5 thousand spectators) - biathlon, Nordic combined, cross-country skiing, which were held on the slopes of the Psekhako ridge. Resort JSC "Gazprom".

For the Olympics in Sochi, several tunnels, bridges, tens of kilometers of railway lines were built connecting the main Olympic village in the Imeretinskaya lowland with the Mountain Cluster, and hundreds of kilometers of roads. 2 roads are 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.

From February 7 to 23, 2014, the XXII Winter Olympic Games were held in the Russian resort city of Sochi.
The opening and closing of the Winter Olympics in Sochi, the results, the symbols, all this is history.

Let's remember how it was.

The choice of the capital of the Olympiad 2014

Sochi was officially announced as the venue for the 2014 Olympics in July 2007 at the 119th IOC session held in Guatemala.

In a hard competitive struggle for the right to become the hostess of the Winter Olympic Games 2014, Russia won South Korea(Pyeongchang) and Austria (Salzburg).

Symbols of the Olympic Games in Sochi

The mascots of the 2014 Winter Olympics have chosen Leopard, White Bear and Bunny. The process was difficult and adventurous. Many options were rejected, voting dates were often postponed, but, nevertheless, these three cute cute creatures, forever entered the history of the Olympic Movement, as well as Olympic bear 1980.

Olympic torch relay

It has become the largest and longest in the history of all the Winter Olympic Games. The start was given on October 7, 2013, and ended on the opening day of the Games on February 7, 2014.

  • For 123 days, the torch of the Winter Olympics in Sochi covered more than 65,000 km.
  • He traveled in cars, planes, trains, and even reindeer teams and a Russian troika.
  • The Olympic torch relay passed through 83 capitals of the regions Russian Federation, 2900 settlements R.F.
  • He was greeted by 130,000 people.

Way in Olympic Sochi was not easy and was accompanied by incidents. In the first day alone, the fire was extinguished 4 times, and then more than once. At the finish line, the flame fell on the sleeve of the bobsledder's jacket, and his companions extinguished it.

Opening of the Olympic Games in Sochi 2014

The ceremony began at exactly 20:14 Moscow time. A parade of participants in the Olympic Games was held, in which 88 delegations took part. Traditionally, the parade in honor of the opening of the Olympics in Sochi was completed by the Russian team as the host country of the Winter Olympics 2014. At the head was the flag bearer Alexander Zubkov.

Then the audience saw an interesting theatrical performance that covered the main stages of Russian history - from Ancient Russia to Soviet Union. In total, 980 acrobats and 1,200 dancers, as well as 200 trapeze artists participated in the opening ceremony.
Of course it didn't go without Olympic mascots who welcomed the audience and assured everyone that the Sochi Olympics, the results of which will certainly go down in the history of sports, will be held at the highest level.

The official part of the opening ceremony of the Sochi Olympics was attended by: the head of the International Olympic Olympiad Thomas Bach, the head of the organizing committee of the Games in Sochi Dmitry Chernyshenko, Russian President Vladimir Putin, who declared the Sochi Olympics open.

The Olympic torch was carried by tennis player Maria Sharapova, the flag was carried by several eminent Russian athletes, and the fire in the arena was lit by the legendary figure skater Irina Rodnina and hockey player Vladislav Tretiak.

A couple of incidents at the opening of the games: at the beginning of the performance, one of the five Olympic rings opened, the former president of Russia, Dmitry Medvedev, fell asleep in the midst of the ceremony.

The opening ceremony of the Sochi Olympics ended with a grandiose fireworks display.

Competitions

As part of the XXII Winter Olympic Games, competitions were held in 15 disciplines united in 7 winter sports:

  • Biathlon.
  • Bobsled.
  • Skeleton.
  • Sports competitions on skates.
  • Ski sports.
  • Luge.
  • Ice hockey with a puck.

Athletes from 88 countries came to Sochi to compete for Olympic medals, which was a new Olympic record.
For the first time, such exotic countries as Malta, Paraguay, East Timor, Togo, Tonga and Zimbabwe have become participants in the Winter Olympics.

The winner in the team event was the Russian Olympic Team, which won
13 gold, 11 silver, and 8 bronze medals at the Sochi Olympics.

Closing ceremony of the Olympics in Sochi

The closing ceremony of the XXII Winter Olympic Games lasted for 2.5 hours at the Fisht stadium. It began on February 23, at 20:14 Moscow time. The main topic was Russian culture through the eyes of a European. The production was directed by the Italian theater director Daniele Finzi Pasca.

At the beginning of the solemn closing ceremony of the Olympics in Sochi, the girl Lyuba, the main heroine of the opening of the Games, appeared before the audience, and Valya and Yura (in honor of cosmonauts Valentina Tereshkova and Yuri Gagarin) joined in.

After the first part, the head of the International Olympic Committee Thomas Bach and Russian President Vladimir Putin. who summed up the results of the Olympics in Sochi.

The Russian flag was carried to the stadium by Sochi Olympic champions from Russia: Viktor An, Alexei Volkov, Ekaterina Bobrova, Vladimir Grigoriev, Tatyana Volossozhar, Elena Ilyinykh, Dmitry Malyshko, Yulia Lipnitskaya, Evgeni Plushenko, Alexander Tretyakov, Adelina Sotnikova, Vic Wilde, Anton Shipulin , Evgeny Ustyugov and others.

The children's choir, conducted by Valery Gergiev, performed the anthem. Then the audience saw and heard the ensemble of drummers of the Moscow military school. A parade of athletes took place, 88 flag bearers came out, all teams rose from three sides. The last awarding of the winners of the 2014 Olympiad has passed.

The second part of the performance told about Russian painting, ballet, music, literature and the circus.

After handing over the flag of the Olympic Games to the Korean city of Pyeongchang, the host of the 2018 Olympics, the head of the IOC, Thomas Bach, said in Russian: “Goodbye, Sochi!”.

Three symbols of the Olympic Sochi-Bunny, Mishka and Leopard appeared on the stage. To the sound of the music of Alexandra Pakhmutova "Goodbye, Moscow" (Olympics 80), Mishka blew out the Olympic flame.

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On February 7, 2014, the XXII Winter Olympic Games opened in Sochi. This is the second Olympics for Russia, the first - the Olympics-80 - is remembered even by those who were just a child at the time it was held in Moscow. But that was summer, and this winter - everything is completely different, and the country was again worried, as for the first time. The fact that Sochi, a resort city and the “summer capital” of Russia, was chosen as the venue for winter sports competitions, at first led to confusion. However, it immediately became clear that this was just another challenge, an additional reason for pride: Sochi became the first city with a subtropical climate to host the Winter Olympics.

Sochi's bid to host the 2014 Games was declared the winner at the 119th session of the International Olympic Committee on July 4, 2007. According to tradition, at the closing ceremony of the 2010 Olympics in Vancouver, the solemn handover of the Olympic flag to Sochi Mayor Anatoly Pakhomov took place, after which the Russian flag flew over the stadium and the audience in the stands and at the TV screens witnessed the presentation of Sochi as the host of the next Winter Olympics. Model Natalia Vodianova, prima ballerina Uliana Lopatkina, figure skaters Tatyana Navka and Roman Kostomarov, opera singer Maria Guleghina, and the Mariinsky Theater Symphony Orchestra conducted by Valery Gergiev took part in the performance. At the end of the performance, a huge logo of the Sochi Olympics appeared at the stadium.

The 2014 Games were held at two venues. The Krasnaya Polyana ski resort, 39 km from the city, hosted open-air sports: bobsleigh, cross-country skiing, downhill etc. Among other Olympic facilities, the Rzhanaya Polyana luge and bobsleigh track appeared here, ski resort Rosa Khutor (its first stage was opened at the end of 2010) and the mountain Olympic village.

And in Sochi itself, a grandiose Olympic park was built to hold competitions in figure skating, hockey, skating, curling - in general, those sports that require indoor spaces.

The Olympic Park in Sochi included the following facilities:

  • Big ice arena - hockey, 12000 spectators,
  • Small ice arena - hockey, 7000 spectators,
  • Speed ​​skating center - speed skating, 8000 spectators,
  • Ice Palace sports - figure skating, short track, 12,000 spectators,
  • Arena for curling - curling, 3000 spectators,
  • Olympic Stadium, 40,000 spectators,
  • Main Olympic Village.

The Organizing Committee of the Olympic Games in Sochi presented the emblem of the Games on December 1, 2009, and on February 26, 2011 the results of the popular vote were summed up and three mascots of the upcoming Olympics were chosen - a polar bear, a leopard and a hare. The anthem of the games was a song recorded for Sochi's application to the IOC by Russian pop stars.

The Olympic Games in Sochi lasted 17 days, 92 sets of medals were played in 15 sports. The right to host the Olympics in itself means the recognition of Russia as a strong player in the international arena. And so big sport's event always contributes to the development of the infrastructure of the region in which it is held, increasing the level of attractiveness of the region for tourists and the international prestige of the host country.

Sochi became the first city with a subtropical climate to host the Winter Olympic Games.

In order to be involved in the most important sporting event in the life of the country, it was not at all necessary to be a member of the organizing committee of the Games. The Olympic and Paralympic Games would not have been possible to organize and hold without the participation of enthusiastic volunteers. 25,000 volunteers were involved in the Sochi Olympics.

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From 7 to 23 February 2014 were held in Sochi XXII Olympic winter Games (hereinafter referred to as the Winter Games), in which Russia took first place in the medal standings.

The Winter Games were held on the territory of our country for the first time. According to the forecasts of the Ministry of Sports of Russia, they should have become the largest in terms of the number of participants and the number of awards. So, the Games took part about 6 thousand people(participants and officials), including 3 thousand athletes from more than 90 countries of the world, among whom 98 sets of medals. For comparison: at the XXI Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver, 86 sets of awards were played. It was assumed that the number of viewers who will attend the Games will be more than 1 million people, and the TV audience that is expected to watch them is about 3 billion people.

Curiously, the only this moment Olympics held in Russia summer games(Moscow, 1980) were also XXII.

The Olympic Games are the largest international sports competition. They are held once every four years under the auspices of the International Olympic Committee (hereinafter - the IOC). Organization, events and activities Olympic movement and the conditions for holding the Games are regulated by the Olympic Charter. The first Winter Olympic Winter Games took place in 1925 in Chamonix (France). From 1924 to 1992, the Winter Games were held in the same years as the Summer Games (they were canceled in 1940 and 1944 due to World War II). The next Winter Games were held in 1994, that is, two years later, and not four, in connection with the decision to make a two-year interval between the summer and winter Games.

According to the IOC classification, there is seven winter olympic sports(according to the number of International sports federations, which are members of the Association of International Winter Sports Federations):

  • Biathlon (Biathlon) - international union biathlon (IBU);
  • Bobsleigh - International Federation bobsleigh and toboggan (FIBT);
  • Curling - world federation curling (WCF);
  • Ice Hockey - International Ice Hockey Federation (IIXF);
  • Luge (Luge) - International Luge Federation (FIL);
  • Speed ​​skating (Skating) - International Skating Union (ISU);
  • Skiing (Skiing) - International Ski Federation (FIS).

In addition, speed skating, skiing and bobsleigh are divided into disciplines. In Russia, the classification is more common precisely taking into account these subspecies, therefore, it stands out 15 Olympic sports:

1. Biathlon- a winter Olympic sport that combines skiing with shooting from a small-caliber rifle. IN Olympic program included since 1960.

2. Bobsleigh– high-speed descent along a special ice track in the form of a gutter on a sled (bobs). Included in the Olympic program from the very first winter games - since 1924.

3. Skeleton– downhill on a two-track sled with a weighted frame along the bobsleigh track. Became olympic view sports in 2002.

4. Curling- command sports game on the ice platform. During the competition, the participants of the two teams alternately launch special heavy granite projectiles (“stones”) across the ice towards a special field marked on the ice. Athletes try to stop their stone in a certain place or knock opponents' stones out of the scoring zone. Curling officially became an Olympic sport in 1998, although demonstration competitions were already held at the 1924 Games.

5. Ice hockey- a sports game in which the players of two teams (on skates), directing the puck with sticks, seek to throw it into the opponent's goal, without letting it into their own goal. Into the Winter Games men's hockey included from the very beginning - since 1924, and the first ice hockey tournament as part of the Games took place at the 1920 Summer Olympics. Women's ice hockey was only included in the Winter Games in 1998.

6. Luge– downhill skiing on single and double sledges along the luge-bobsleigh track. This sport was included in the program of the Winter Games in 1964.

7. Figure skating - a speed skating sport that involves the movement of athletes on ice on skates, with changes in the direction of sliding and the performance of additional elements (rotation, jumps, combinations of steps, lifts, etc.) to the music. Figure skating is one of the very first winter disciplines: figure skating competitions were held at the Summer Olympics in 1908 and 1920.

8. Speed ​​skating- another kind of speed skating. Men have been wearing it at the Winter Games since 1924, and women since 1960.

9. Short track- a kind of speed skating: skating on a short track. Included in the program of the Olympic Games in 1992.

10. Alpine skiing- discipline of skiing, which is a descent from the mountains on special skis. Officially, this sport has been included in the Olympic program since 1936.

11. Cross-country skiing- ski racing for a certain distance on a specially prepared track. Men competed in this sport already at the first Games in 1924, and for women it has been included in the Olympic program since 1952.

12. Ski jumping- a discipline that is ski jumping from specially equipped ski jumps. They have been included in the Olympic program since 1924. Women will compete in this sport for the first time at the Olympic Games in Sochi.

13. Nordic combined , which is also called the "northern combination", combines two disciplines: ski jumping and cross-country skiing. Individual biathlon has been part of the program of the Winter Games since 1924, and in 1988 it was added team competition in this discipline.

14. Snowboard- the youngest of ski types sport, which consists in descending from snowy slopes mountains on a special projectile. It entered the Olympic program for the first time in 1998.

15. Freestyle- another kind of skiing. Included in the program of the Winter Games since 1992.

In the course of preparation for the next Games, the issue of including new types of competitions in the Olympic program may be submitted for consideration by the IOC Executive Committee. So, at the Olympics in Sochi will be presented for the first time:

  • ski jumping (women);
  • team competitions in figure skating;
  • relay race in luge;
  • freestyle halfpipe (men and women);
  • mixed relay in biathlon;
  • freestyle slopestyle (men and women);
  • slopestyle snowboarding (men and women);
  • parallel slalom (men and women).

Paralympic Winter Games

From 7 to 16 March 2014 in Sochi will be held and XI Paralympic Winter Games. Just like the Olympic Winter Games, they will be held in Russia for the first time. It is expected that they will take part more than 1.4 thousand people(participants and officials), including 700 Paralympic athletes from more than 40 countries, among whom will be played 72 sets of medals.

The first Paralympic Winter Games were held in 1976 in Ornskjoldsvik (Sweden). Since 1992, the Paralympic Winter Games have been held in the same cities as the Olympic Winter Games. The organization responsible for the development of the Paralympic movement in the world is the International Paralympic Committee (IPC).

belongs to the Paralympic five sports:

1. Biathlon. Visually impaired and hearing impaired athletes, as well as athletes with amputations and disorders of the musculoskeletal system, can take part in it, however, athletes with the same category of disability compete with each other.

Biathlon was included in the Paralympic program in 1994.

2. Alpine skiing. The competition is attended by men and women different types disability: spinal injury, cerebral palsy, amputation, blindness or partial loss of vision. However, the competition is between athletes with the same category of disability in order to ensure equal conditions for all athletes.

The first disciplines of alpine skiing were included in the program of the very first Paralympic Games in 1976.

3. Cross-country skiing. As in the competition skiing, athletes with different types of disabilities participate in cross-country skiing, but the competition is between athletes of the same category of disability. In relay races, teams are made up of three athletes with different types of disabilities.

This sport has also been included in the Paralympic program since 1976.

4 Wheelchair Curling. It is played by two teams whose goal is to hit a stone thrown on ice as close as possible to the center of the drawn target. Teams can be mixed, that is, they can consist of both men and women.

Curling has been part of the official program of the Paralympic Games since 2006. This year, our country will be represented in this sport for the first time.

5. Ice hockey sledge. The game consists in a confrontation between two teams, which, passing the puck with clubs, seek to throw it into the opponent's goal as many times as possible without letting it into their own goal. It involves athletes with functional impairments lower extremities, the degree of which does not allow skating while standing. During the game, athletes move around sitting on a sled and use two sticks, serrated at one end and curved at the other. With the help of metal teeth, players push off the ice, and with a curved end they hit the puck.

Officially, this sport was included in the program of the Paralympic Games in 1994. The Russian Paralympic sledge hockey team will take part in this sport for the first time on upcoming Games in Sochi.

Beyond sports

The Olympic and Paralympic Games (hereinafter referred to as the Games) remain in memory for a long time not only due to spectacular ceremonies and exciting competitions, but also thanks to unique artifacts and memorabilia, which are in great demand among collectors and fans of the Olympic movement. Among the artifacts of the XXII Olympic Winter Games and XI Paralympic Winter Games, in addition to the mascots with the symbols of the Games in Sochi, it is worth highlighting philatelic products and numismatics.

So, for the 2014 Games in Sochi, four postage blocks, 45 postage stamps of various subjects, maximum cards and postcards, as well as sets of all published postage stamps in an art cover, were issued. Plots for postal products have become winter views sports, Olympic sports facilities, as well as views of the Krasnodar Territory.

The Sochi 2014 coin program is being implemented from 2011 to 2014 and provides for the issuance of coins (commemorative and investment) from both precious and non-ferrous metals. It should be noted that for the first time a commemorative banknote (with a face value of 100 rubles) was issued for the Games in Sochi.

Did you know that:

  • the Winter Olympics have never been held in the Southern Hemisphere;
  • artificial snow was first used at the XIII Winter Olympics in 1980 in Lake Placid (USA);
  • the first Games to take place outside North America and Europe, became the XI Winter Olympic Games - they were held in Sapporo (Japan) in 1972;
  • the only time in the history of the Games had to be postponed: in 1976 they were supposed to be held in Denver (USA), but due to financial problems of the organizers they were moved to Innsbruck (Austria). By the way, it was there that the official mascot of the Winter Games was first presented - it was a snowman named Tirolin;
  • the British team that won the 1936 Ice Hockey World Championship at the 1936 Winter Olympics was made up almost entirely of Canadians;
  • On the XIX Olympic 2002 Games in Salt Lake City (USA) in figure skating, a unique event took place: the Canadian couple Sale / Peletier received gold medals not by decision of the judges, but as a result of public pressure. As a result, gold medals were awarded to both Russian couple Berezhnaya/Sikharulidze, who won first place, and Canadians;
  • Russian figure skater Alexei Yagudin Olympic champion 2002 - is also a four-time world champion and a three-time European champion, but has never won the Russian championship;
  • Sochi 2014 Olympic torch relay will be the longest and longest in the history of the Games. From October 7, 2013 (Moscow) to February 7, 2014 (Sochi), the Olympic flame will cover more than 65 thousand km, having visited more than 2900 settlements in all 83 regions of the country. The total number of torchbearers is about 14 thousand people;
  • for the Winter Olympic Games in Sochi, a record number of awards were made - 1300 medals. It took about 3 kg of pure gold, 2 tons of silver and 700 kg of bronze to make them.

From February 7 to 23, 2014, the XXII Olympic Winter Games took place in Sochi, which became a real celebration of sports. During the competition top athletes planets played 98 sets of medals in 15 sports. According to many sports functionaries and the athletes themselves, it was the best Olympics in history.

How it all began

The decision to elect Sochi as the capital of the 2014 Olympics was made at the IOC session, held in Guatemala on July 4, 2007 (in Russia it was already July 5). Application Russian city represented our famous athletes, sports leaders, famous politicians. Russian President Vladimir Putin addressed the members of the IOC.

Sochi's competitors were Korean Pyeongchang and Austrian Salzburg. In the first round of voting, no one got the number of votes necessary for victory (more than 50%). Moreover, Pyeongchang (36 votes) was able to get ahead of Sochi (34 votes). Salzburg (25 votes) became an outsider and dropped out of further struggle.

Difficulties of preparation for the Olympic Games

Sochi is located on the Black Sea coast, in a zone of humid subtropical climate. For the first time, the Winter Olympics were held in the subtropics, which gave it an unusual flavor. The slogan of the games was the expression “Hot. Winter. Yours." The first word reflects both the venue of the Olympics and the intensity of sports passions.

The preparation of Sochi for the games was complicated by the fact that it was necessary not only to build Olympic venues, but also to modernize the tourism, transport, engineering and telecommunications infrastructure. As a result, this entire resort region was completely reconstructed.

President of the International Olympic Committee Thomas Bach, speaking at the closing ceremony, noted the huge amount of work that had been done in Sochi in preparation for the Olympic Games. “What has been done for decades in other parts of the world,” said the head of the IOC, “was done here in 7 years.”

Olympic venues in Sochi

For the 2014 Olympics, two zones were created, located at different heights: a coastal cluster and a mountain cluster.

The first zone houses the Olympic Park, which was created in the Adler region. The following facilities are located on its territory:

  • - Stadium "Fisht" (capacity - 40 thousand spectators). This sports arena hosted the colorful opening and closing ceremonies of the Olympics;
  • - Ice Palace "Big" (12 thousand), in which hockey teams competed;
  • – Ice Arena"Puck" (7 thousand) - another facility for hockey players;
  • - "Adler-Arena" (8 thousand) became the venue for competitions in speed skating;
  • - Iceberg Sports Palace (12 thousand) hosted figure skaters and short track masters;
  • – The Ice Cube Curling Center (3,000) was built for curling competitions;
  • - Olympic Village.

The coastal cluster also included training arenas for hockey and figure skating, Media Center, hotels for IOC members and journalists, Theme Park, Medal Plaza for the awards ceremony and some other facilities. All sports facilities are located compactly, not far from each other and the Olympic Village. According to Thomas Bach, the Olympics was unique in terms of logistics. Athletes could arrive for breakfast and training on foot or by bike in a few minutes.

The mountain cluster is located near the village of Krasnaya Polyana, which is located 39 km from the seashore, at an altitude of 500 meters. The following Olympic venues were built here:

  • – The Laura complex (for 7.5 thousand spectators) became the venue for biathlon competitions, skiing and biathlon (cross-country skiing);
  • – Rosa Khutor complex (17.7 thousand), consisting of ski center and an extreme park, hosted skiers, snowboarders and freestyle masters;
  • - "Russian Hills" (7.5 thousand) - a complex for ski jumping;
  • - Center "Sanki" (5 thousand spectators) - a venue for competitions in luge, bobsleigh and skeleton;
  • – Mountain Olympic village.

Large-scale preparation is the key to the success of the Olympics

According to the unanimous opinion of the IOC leaders, athletes and journalists, the Winter Olympic Games in Sochi were a success. Large-scale preparation for the Olympics and significant costs were not in vain. The army of volunteers, numbering 25,000 people from Russia and 60 other countries, also contributed to the success of the Olympics.

The unofficial team standings of the Olympic Games was won by Russia. Athletes of our country won 33 medals. In total, representatives of 26 countries were able to receive awards of the XXII Winter Olympics.

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