SOCHI - 2014 Winter Olympics / XXII Olympic Winter Games

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Olympic Park (link: http://rusrep.ru/article/2010/10/27/imeretyair ; thanks to Russian sub-forum)

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awesome photo

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"Nekrasovskoe" village (for replaced from Imeretinskaya Lowland)

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4,5 months until first testing events in Sochi.

Sochi 2014 preparing for first test events

Sochi (RUS) is getting ready to stage the first official test events for the Olympic Winter Games Sochi 2014 this season. Both the ladies' and men's circuits of the European Cup in Alpine Skiing will be visiting the Black Sea resort for two weekends of speed racing in February 2011; the competition schedule features a downhill and super-G race for each gender. The men's races are scheduled on 17th-18th February whilst the ladies will compete on 25th-26th February.

"The European Cup events in February will be the first important test opportunity for Sochi 2014 organizers. The courses in Krasnaya Polyana are ready now and the snow-making system will be finalized in the next few weeks. The safety installations are also currently being installed," reports Markus Waldner, FIS Coordinator for the men's Alpine European Cup. "We are happy about the appointment of Yves Dimier, the former Alpine director for the French Ski Association, as Sochi 2014 Manager for Alpine Skiing who will act as a liaison between the Russian Ski Association, the organizers of the test events and the Sochi 2014 organizing committee. Yves will play a key role in coordinating the work of the local team on site in Russia."

He adds: "We are also very happy that the teams can take advantage of a direct charter flight from Zürich to Sochi, with bus transportation directly to the hotel. The local team is still working on the final details of the visa application procedures and we are confident there will be a solution that makes it easier for the teams to fulfill the requirements."

http://www.fisalpine.com/news/sochi-...actu_page_99=2

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Olimpic Park Railwai Station in Sochi
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GkecA7dliNQ

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Positive progress being made on Sochi environmental projects
http://insidethegames.biz/winter-oly...ental-projects

Russia to allocate $160-200 million on F1 track construction - deputy PM

"The profitability of the F1 track is very high. Under preliminary calculations, even if $200 million is spent, the project will pay off in five years," Kozak said, adding that Russia would specify on the terms of the track construction before November 20.

"We must build 74 F1 objects on the territory of the Olympic park in a fashion so that the builders [of both projects] do not bother each other," the deputy premier said.

http://en.rian.ru/russia/20101113/161324289.html

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Olympic Park Station



Olympic Stadium



Bolshoi Ice Palace



Maly Ice Palace

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Olympic Oval

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Main Media Center

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Rosa Khutor Alpine Resort

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New great photos.

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Nice, they're doing a great job there

[Vandoren]

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Thanks for update,but please don't use names like this "Bolshoi Ice Palace".I guess better will be to write "Bolshoi Ledovi Dvores" or "Big Ice Palace".

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Sochi Shopping Mall
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQluwu9kr-4

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Sochi 2014 Ambassador Alexander Ovechkin

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Sochi 2014 Ambassador Alexey Voevoda

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Sochi 2014 Ambassador Maksim Shabalin

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Sochi 2014 Ambassador Natalia Vodianova

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Sochi 2014 Ambassador Olesya Vladykina

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Sochi 2014 Ambassador Diana Gurtskaya

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Sochi 2014 Ambassador Oksana Domnina

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Sochi 2014 Ambassador Albert Demchenko

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Originally Posted by WFInsider

[B]Sochi 2014 Ambassador Alexander Ovechkin

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Surname Ovechkin is formed from the Russian word "ovtsa" ("sheep"). It's nickname of this player.

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Bobsleigh Track

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http://www.youtube.com/sochinewyear

Sochi 2014 Breaks Barriers with Innovative New Year YouTube Message

The interactive New Year internet-card given by the Sochi 2014 Organizing Committee via the world’s most popular video networking site, YouTube, is the first interactive project created in Russia which combines a number of advanced internet technologies and uses the interactive resources on the video site.

The innovative video greeting by Dmitry Chernyshenko, the President and CEO of the Sochi 2014 Organizing Committee, begins as a normal New Year’s video message. A few seconds later, the speaker “breaks out” of the standard square YouTube interface, and the YouTube page starts to live a life of its own. The people seen in the suggested video screens across the page “come to life” and greet Mr. Chernyshenko and display the count down until the Games begin in Sochi.

Following the message from Mr. Chernyshenko, the internet-card transforms into a spectacular computer generated online game where the viewer becomes a downhill skier on the Olympic slopes in Sochi. The game can be played using either a standard keyboard or by placing a video camera in front of the user and performing the moves of the skier.

Innovative and creative internet presentations are already a hallmark of the Sochi 2014 Organizing Committee.

Last year, a video with a “personal” greeting of the President of the Sochi 2014 Organizing Committee on a mobile phone created the image of “exploding” the blogosphere, after receiving more than 50,000 “phone calls”. The Sochi 2014 Organizing Committee expects that this year’s presentation will be even more popular.

“The internet has opened up incredible possibilities for direct contact with millions of people all over the world. In sending out our message to the world, we want to remind people of the amazing event they will witness in three years’ time. It reminds us that keeping up the pace in our preparations and continuing to make our Olympic dreams become a reality depends on our continued determination and hard work,” remarked Dmitry Chernyshenko, President and CEO of the Sochi 2014 Organizing Committee.

http://sochi2014.com/en/sochi-live/news/38199/

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Olympic fire route.

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http://www.gorkygorod.ru/en/main/index/

http://www.tramplin.tv/welcome/page

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Shortlist of the 10 design ideas for Olympic mascot

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