City organizer:
Sochi
Country:
Russia
Participating countries:
88
Sports:
15
Practicing sets of medals:
98
Opening ceremony:
7 February
Opened:
Vladimir Putin
Closing ceremony:
February 23
Olympic flame:
Vladislav Tretiak (hockey), Irina Rodnina (figure skating)
Olympic oath:
Ruslan Zakharov (short track)
Stadium:
Olympic stadium "Fisht"
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Sochi 2014
Winter Olympic games 2014 (XXII winter Olympic games is an international sporting event, held from 7 to 23 February 2014 in the Russian city of Sochi.
The choice of city
June 22, 2006 IOC President Jacques Rogge of the seven claiming bids (Jaca, Alma-ATA, Sofia, Borjomi, Sochi, Salzburg Pyeongchang) announced the names of three candidates. They are Sochi, Salzburg and Pyeongchang.
4 July 2007 in Guatemala held the 119th IOC session, which was chosen as host city of the Olympics.
Before the vote, presentations of candidate cities. Sochi athletes represented: Svetlana Zhurova, Evgeny Plushenko, Mikhail Terentiev (Paralympic) and Alexander Popov; sports officials: Vyacheslav Fetisov, Elena Anikina, Shamil Tarpischev, Dmitry Chernyshenko and Vitaly Smirnov; policy: Vladimir Putin, Alexander Zhukov, German Gref, Alexander Tkachev, Viktor Kolodyazhny.
In the first round of voting, which was attended by 97 participants-representatives of the countries of the IOC, has left Salzburg. In the second round won Sochi winning the Pyeongchang 4 votes (51 vs. 47). Thus Russia became the first host of the Winter Olympic games.
Jacques Rogge
Jacques Rogge shows the name of the city, who won in the fight for the right to host the 2014 Games
Mascots
The mascots of the Olympic Winter games 2014 were selected White Bear, Leopard and Bunny.
The mascots of the Olympic Winter games 2014
Chose talismans with work and adventures. Several votes were declared invalid, the winning options were rejected, the timing of the vote was postponed.
The final voting results were as follows:
Leopard (author Vadim Pak, , Nakhodka) to 28.2% of the votes
White Bear (author Oleg Heart, , Sochi) - 18.3% of the votes
Bunny (author Silvia Petrova, village of New Buyanova, Anticosti region, Chuvashia) - 16.4% of the votes.
The mascots of the Olympic Winter games 2014
The choice was criticized. In particular, it was noted that the composition of the Sochi mascots (the Leopard, polar Bear and Bunny) is almost identical to the Trinity of the mascots for the Olympic games in salt lake city (Coyote, Bear and Rabbit). Graphic design White Bears in General, and especially of the muzzle and a large round head, more typical for brown bears than for whites, in which the head is elongated. It is also noted close to plagiarism similarity White Bears with the mascot of the Moscow summer Olympics in 1980 bear Misha, as indicated, and the Creator of the image of the last Victor Chizhikov.
The world wildlife Fund in Russia suggested Organizing Committee "Sochi 2014" to edit the picture with Leopard, explaining that the fur is depicted animal is not like leopard, and snow leopard, which in the Caucasus had never dwelt.
Olympic torch relay
Olympic torch relay "Sochi 2014" is the longest and most ambitious in the history of the winter Olympic games. Started it October 7, 2013 and will end on the opening day of the Olympics on 7 February 2014.
The route of the Olympic flame in Russia was presented by the organizing Committee "Sochi 2014" exactly one year before the start of the relay. Within 123 days the torch of the Games in the hands of the athletes will make more than 65 thousand miles on cars, trains, airplanes, and Russian Troika and reindeer eyes 130 million inhabitants 2900 settlements of Russia, will visit the capitals of all 83 subjects of the Russian Federation