NBC Winter Olympics (2014)
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| XXII Olympic Winter Games | ||
| Host city | Sochi, Russia | |
| Motto | Gateway to the Future | |
| Events | 98 in 15 sports | |
| Opening ceremony | 7 February | |
| Closing ceremony | 23 February | |
| Stadium | Fisht Olympic Stadium | |
The 2014 Winter Olympics, officially the XXII Olympic Winter Games, or the 22nd Winter Olympics, is a major international multi-sport event being held in Sochi, Russia.
Scheduled for 7–23 February 2014, opening rounds in figure skating, skiing, and snowboard competitions were held on the eve of the Opening Ceremony, 6 February 2014. Both the Olympics and 2014 Winter Paralympics are being organized by the Sochi Organizing Committee (SOC). Sochi was selected as the host city in July 2007, during the 119th IOC Session held in Guatemala City. It is the first Olympics in Russia since the breakup of the USSR in 1991. The USSR was the host nation for the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow.
98 events in 15 winter sport disciplines are being held in the Games. A number of new competitions—a total of 12 accounting for gender—will be held during the Games, including biathlon mixed relay, women's ski jumping, mixed-team figure skating, mixed-team luge, half-pipe skiing, ski and snowboard slopestyle, and snowboard parallel slalom. The events will be held around two clusters of new venues; an Olympic Park constructed in Sochi's Imeretinsky Valley on the coast of the Black Sea, with Fisht Olympic Stadium and the Games' indoor venues located within walking distance, and snow events in the resort settlement of Krasnaya Polyana.
In preparation, organizers focused on modernizing the telecommunications, electric power, and transportation infrastructures of the region. While originally budgeted at US$12 billion, various factors caused the budget to expand to over US$51 billion, surpassing the estimated $44 billion cost of the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing as the most expensive Olympics in history.
The lead-up to these Games were marked by major controversies, including allegations of corruption leading to the aforementioned cost overruns, concerns for the safety and human rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) athletes and supporters during the Games due to the country's recent restrictions on the promotion of LGBT sexual relationships (which have led to ongoing protests) and various security concerns over threats by jihadist groups tied to the insurgency in the North Caucasus.
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[edit] Bidding process
- Main article: NBC Winter Olympics (2014) bids|2014 Winter Olympics bids]]
| 2014 Winter Olympics bidding results | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| City | NOC Name | Round 1 | Round 2 | ||
| Sochi | Russia | 34 | 51 | ||
| Pyeongchang | South Korea | 36 | 47 | ||
| Salzburg | Austria | 25 | – | ||
[edit] Financials
| Funds approved from 2006 until 2014 | |
|---|---|
| Year | Billions of rubles |
| 2006 | 4.9 |
| 2007 | 15.9 |
| 2008 | 31.6 |
| 2009 | 27.3 |
| 2010 | 22.2 |
| 2011 | 27.1 |
| 2012 | 26.3 |
| 2013 | 22.1 |
| 2014 | 8.4 |
[edit] Venues
[edit] Sochi Olympic Park (Coastal Cluster)
- Main article: Venues of the 2014 Winter Olympics
[edit] Krasnaya Polyana (Mountain Cluster)
[edit] Tentative post-Olympic usage
[edit] Marketing
[edit] Emblem
[edit] Mascots
[edit] Video game
[edit] Construction
[edit] Telecommunications
[edit] Power infrastructure
[edit] Transportation
[edit] Other infrastructure
[edit] The Games
[edit] Torch relay
- Main article: 2014 Winter Olympics torch relay
[edit] Participating National Olympic Committees
[edit] National houses
[edit] Sports
[edit] Medals
- Main article: List of 2014 Winter Olympics medal winners
Sochi's medal design was unveiled in May 2013. The design is intended to resemble Sochi's landscape, with a semi-translucent section containing a "patchwork quilt" of diamonds representing mountains; the diamonds themselves contain designs that reflect Russia's regions. Those who win gold medals on 15 February will receive special medals with fragments of the Chelyabinsk meteor, marking the one-year anniversary of the event where pieces of the cosmic body fell into the Chebarkul Lake in the Ural Mountains in central Russia.
[edit] Medal table
- Main article: 2014 Winter Olympics medal table
- Key
Host nation (Russia)
| Rank | NOC | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Canada (CAN) | 3 | 3 | 1 | 7 |
| 2 | Netherlands (NED) | 3 | 2 | 2 | 7 |
| 3 | Norway (NOR) | 2 | 1 | 4 | 7 |
| 4 | United States (USA) | 2 | 0 | 3 | 5 |
| 5 | Germany (GER) | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 6 | Russia (RUS)* | 1 | 2 | 3 | 6 |
| 7 | Austria (AUT) | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| 8 | France (FRA) | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 9 | Poland (POL) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Slovakia (SVK) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
| Switzerland (SUI) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
| 12 | Czech Republic (CZE) | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 13 | Sweden (SWE) | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 14 | Italy (ITA) | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 15 | China (CHN) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Finland (FIN) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| Slovenia (SLO) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| 18 | Great Britain (GBR) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Ukraine (UKR) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| Total | 18 | 18 | 18 | 54 | |
[edit] Calendar
| OC | Opening ceremony | ● | Event competitions | 1 | Event finals | EG | Exhibition gala | CC | Closing ceremony |
| February | 6th Thu | 7th Fri | 8th Sat | 9th Sun | 10th Mon | 11th Tue | 12th Wed | 13th Thu | 14th Fri | 15th Sat | 16th Sun | 17th Mon | 18th Tue | 19th Wed | 20th Thu | 21st Fri | 22nd Sat | 23rd Sun | Events | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ceremonies | OC | CC | ||||||||||||||||||
| Alpine skiing | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 10 | |||||||||
| Biathlon | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 11 | ||||||||||
| Bobsleigh | ● | 1 | 1 | ● | 1 | 3 | ||||||||||||||
| Cross country skiing | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 12 | |||||||||||
| Curling | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||||||
| Figure skating | ● | ● | 1 | ● | 1 | ● | ● | 1 | ● | ● | 1 | EG | 5 | |||||||
| Freestyle skiing | ● | 1 | 1 | ● | ● | 1 | 1 | 10 | ||||||||||||
| Hockey | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | 1 | ● | ● | ● | ● | 1 | 2 | ||||
| Luge | ● | 1 | ● | 1 | 1 | 4 | ||||||||||||||
| Nordic combined | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | ||||||||||||||||
| Short track speed skating | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 8 | ||||||||||||||
| Skeleton | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||||||||||||||||
| Ski jumping | ● | 1 | ● | 1 | 1 | 4 | ||||||||||||||
| Snowboarding | ● | 1 | 1 | ● | 2 | 1 | 1 | 10 | ||||||||||||
| Speed skating | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ● | 2 | 12 | ||||||||
| Total events | 98 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Cumulative total | 98 | |||||||||||||||||||
| February | 6th Thu | 7th Fri | 8th Sat | 9th Sun | 10th Mon | 11th Tue | 12th Wed | 13th Thu | 14th Fri | 15th Sat | 16th Sun | 17th Mon | 18th Tue | 19th Wed | 20th Thu | 21st Fri | 22nd Sat | 23rd Sun | Events | |
[edit] Security
[edit] Media
[edit] Filming
[edit] Broadcasting rights
- Main article: List of 2014 Winter Olympics broadcasters
[edit] Sponsors
[edit] Concerns and controversies
- Main article: Concerns and controversies at the 2014 Winter Olympics
[edit] Pre-Olympics
[edit] During the Olympics
On 7 February 2014, during the opening ceremony, a Pegasus Airlines jetliner from Kharkiv, Ukraine to Istanbul, Turkey was threatened by a passenger claiming to have a bomb and wanting to hijack the plane to fly it to Sochi. The plane landed at its intended destination in Istanbul. The Ukrainian foreign ministry reported that the passenger was arrested, and no weapons or bombs were found aboard the plane.
[edit] Notes and references
[edit] External links
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