Sotchi 2014

07.02.2014 - 23.07.2014

SOCHI 2014, Russia Dates: 7 to 23 February 2014. Participation: 88 NOCs + 1 Independent Olympic Athlete (IOA), 2,780 athletes (1,121 women, 1,659 men), 98 events, 7 sports, 25,000 volunteers, 2,731 written and photographic press and 7,625 rights holding broadcasters. Olympic oath (athletes): Ruslan Zakharov, short track. Olympic oath (officials): Vyacheslav Vedenin, Jr., cross country skiing. Olympic oath (coaches): Anastasia Popkova, alpine skiing. Lighting of the Olympic cauldron: Vladislav Tretyak (ice hockey) and Irina Rodnina (figure skating). Official opening by: President Valdimir Putin. Mascots: The Hare, the Polar Bear and the Leopard are the three official mascots of 2014 the Olympic Winter Games in Sochi. Emblem: “sochi2014.ru” is the first Olympic emblem that also forms a web address. It has been designed to actively encourage dialogue between Russians, nations and winter sports fans – particularly young people – facilitated by Sochi 2014’s online platforms. Motto: “Hot. Cool and Yours.”. Olympic venues: Sochi coastal cluster: Fisht Olympic Stadium (opening, closing and medals ceremonies), Bolshoy Ice Dome and Shayba Arena (ice hockey), Ice Cube Curling Center (curling), Iceberg Skating Palace (figure skating and short track), Adler Arena (speed skating). Krasnaya Polyana mountains cluster: Rosa Khutor Extreme Park (snowboard and freestyle skiing), Laura Center (cross country skiing and biathlon), Rosa Khutor Alpine Center (alpine skiing), the Sanki Sliding Center (luge, skeleton, bobsleigh) and RusSki Gorki Jumping Center (ski juming). The 2014 Olympic Winter Games were the first time that the Russian Federation hosts the Winter Games; the Soviet Union hosted the 1980 Summer Games in Moscow. Six countries participated for the first time in the Olympic Winter Games – Malta, Paraguay, Timor Leste, Togo, Tonga and Zimbabwe. Twelve new events were contested: team figure skating, luge relay, biathlon mixed relay, women’s ski jumping, snowboard and ski slopestyle (men and women), ski half-pipe (men and women) and snowboard parallel slalom (men and women). Source : Factsheets, https://stillmed.olympics.com/media/Documents/Olympic-Games/Factsheets/The-Olympic-Winter-Games.pdf To find out more, you can consult the resources of the Olympic Studies Centre, https://library.olympics.com/default.aspx?_lg=en-GB