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Host city: Sochi
Country: Russia
Participating countries: 88
Types of sports: 15
Awarded sets of medals: 98
Opening Ceremony: February 7
Opened by: Vladimir Putin
Closing ceremony: February 23
Olympic Flame: Vladislav Tretyak (ice hockey), Irina Rodnina (figure skating)
Olympic Oath: Ruslan Zakharov (short track)
Stadium: Fisht Olympic Stadium
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Sochi 2014
The 2014 Winter Olympic Games (XXII Winter Olympic Games) was an international sports event held from February 7 to 23, 2014 in the Russian city of Sochi.
Choosing a city
On June 22, 2006, IOC President Jacques Rogge named three candidate cities out of seven applicants (Haka, Alma Ata, Sofia, Borjomi, Sochi, Salzburg, Pyeongchang).
They were Sochi, Salzburg and Pyeongchang.
On July 4, 2007, Guatemala hosted the next, 119th session of the IOC, at which the host city of the Olympics was chosen.
Immediately before the vote, presentations of the candidate cities were held.
Sochi was represented by athletes: Svetlana Zhurova, Evgeny Plushenko, Mikhail Terentyev (Paralympian) and Alexander Popov; sports functionaries: Vyacheslav Fetisov, Elena Anikina, Shamil Tarpishchev, Dmitry Chernyshenko and Vitaly Smirnov; politicians: Vladimir Putin, Alexander Zhukov, German Gref, Alexander Tkachev, Viktor Kolodyazhny.
In the first round of voting, which was attended by 97 participants from the IOC countries, Salzburg, Austria, was eliminated.
In the second round, the Sochi bid won, winning 4 votes from Pyeongchang (51 against 47).
Thus, Russia became the host country of the Winter Olympic Games for the first time.
Jacques Rogge demonstrates the name of the city that won the fight for the right to host the 2014 Games
Mascots
The mascots of the 2014 Winter Olympics were a White Bear, a Leopard and a Bunny.
They chose mascots with difficulty and adventures.
Several votes were declared invalid, the winning options were rejected, the voting dates were postponed.
The final results of the voting were as follows:
Leopard (author Vadim Pak, Nakhodka) − 28.2 % of votes
White Bear (author Oleg Serdny, Sochi) − 18.3 % of votes
Zayka (author Sylvia Petrova, Novoe Buyanovo village, Yantikovsky district, Chuvashia) − 16.4 % of the votes.
The choice was criticized.
In particular, it was pointed out that the composition of the Sochi mascots (Leopard, polar Bear and Bunny) is almost identical to the Trinity of the mascots of the Olympic games in salt lake city (Coyote, Bear and Rabbit).
Graphic design polar Bear overall and especially face and a big round head, is more characteristic of brown bears than for white, whose head extended.
It is also noted that the similarity of the White Bear to the mascot of the Moscow Summer Olympics—1980, the bear Misha, is close to plagiarism, as indicated by the creator of the image of the latter, Viktor Chizhikov.
The World Wildlife Fund in Russia proposed to the Sochi 2014 Organizing Committee to edit the drawing with a Leopard, citing the fact that the fur color of the depicted animal looks more like a snow leopard than a leopard, which has never lived in the Caucasus.
Olympic Torch Relay
The Sochi 2014 Olympic Torch Relay is the longest and largest in the history of the Winter Olympic Games.
It started on October 7, 2013 and will end on the opening day of the Olympiad on February 7, 2014.
The route of the Olympic flame across the regions of Russia was presented by the Sochi 2014 organizing committee exactly one year before the start of the relay.
During 123 days, the torch of the Games in the hands of athletes will overcome more than 65 thousand kilometers by cars, trains, planes, as well as on the Russian troika and reindeer sleds in front of 130 million residents of 2900 settlements of Russia, will visit the capitals of all 83 subjects of the Russian Federation.
The design of the torches was developed by the creative team of the Center for Industrial Design and Innovation "AstraRossa Design" under the leadership of Vladimir Pirozhkov and Andrey Vodyanik.
207 million rubles were spent from the budget of the Russian Federation on the purchase of 15,000 torches.
The Torch of the Olympic Games in Sochi
The entire course of the relay was accompanied by incidents.
Only during the first day, the fire, despite the assurances of the designers that "the torch will not go out either under water or in space," went out four times.
The whole world was covered by the footage of the first fading, when the extinguished torch was set on fire by an employee of the FSO with an ordinary lighter.
The torch continued to go out throughout the relay.
And then it started to explode.
So, in Kostroma, a torch exploded in the hands of a 13 year old girl.
The victim received a shallow burn of her hand, but was able to run her stage of the relay.
And a few days later, Santa Claus almost burned down in Vologda.
The Olympic flame was also extinguished in the hands of high ranking officials.
The Minister of Culture of the Russian Federation Vladimir Medinsky also ran with a extinguished torch.
After that, the torchbearers themselves began to burn.
So, Pyotr Makarchuk, a famous Russian bobsledder, carried the flame of the Olympics in Abakan already at the final stage.
During the relay, the torch was extinguished several times.
And at the finish of the relay, the flame spread to the sleeve of the bobsledder's jacket.
The torchbearer was extinguished by the escorts.
Opening Ceremony
The ceremony began at 20: 14 Moscow time.
As part of the ceremony, a traditional parade of participants of the Olympic Games was held.
88 delegations took part in the parade.
The Russian national team came out last, completing the parade.
The delegation was headed by the flag bearer Alexander Zubkov.
After that, the audience at the stadium saw a theatrical performance that demonstrated the main milestones of Russian history from Ancient Russia and the times of Peter I to the Soviet Union.
The opening ceremony was attended by 1,200 dancers and 980 acrobats, as well as 200 aerialists.
As part of the official part of the ceremony, Dmitry Chernyshenko, the head of the organizing Committee of the Games, Thomas Bach, the head of the International Olympic Committee, and Russian President Vladimir Putin made addresses.
The Russian President has declared the Olympic Games open.
The Olympic flag was brought to the stadium by tennis player Maria Sharapova.
After that, several other famous Russian athletes carried the torch, and Irina Rodnina and Vladislav Tretyak lit the fire at the arena.
Maria Sharapova
Irina Rodnina and Vladislav Tretyak
The ceremony was also marked by a couple of incidents.
So at the beginning of the performance, one of the five Olympic rings did not open.
And the former president of Russia, Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev fell asleep right in the middle of the ceremony.
A sleeping Dmitry Medvedev at the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games in Sochi
Closing ceremony
The closing ceremony of the XXII Winter Olympic Games began on February 23 at 20: 14 Moscow time at the Fisht Stadium and lasted for 2.5 hours.
The main theme of the show was Russian culture through the eyes of a European.
The director of the ceremony was the Italian theater director Daniele Finzi Pasca.
At the beginning of the ceremony, the main character of the opening of the Games, the girl Lyuba, appeared before the audience, joined this time by two friends Valya and Yura, named after cosmonauts Valentina Tereshkova and Yuri Gagarin.
First, the children sailed in a boat on the sea, in which 700 people in shiny costumes danced.
The dancers at the stadium formed different figures − the sign "yin yang", infinity, a starfish.
In the end, four groups of dancers stood in four Olympic rings, and the fifth one got into a circle, depicting the ring that did not open at the opening on February 7.
After the first part of the performance, Russian President Vladimir Putin and the head of the International Olympic Committee, Thomas Bach, were presented at the stadium.
This time, two time Olympic champion in bobsleigh, Russian Alexander Zubkov, who was the flag bearer at the opening of the Olympics, was sitting to Putin's left.
The Russian flag was taken out on the "Fisht" by the Olympic champions of Sochi from the Russian national team, including Viktor An, Ekaterina Bobrova, Alexey Volkov, Tatyana Volosozhar, Vladimir Grigoriev, Elena Ilyinykh, Yulia Lipnitskaya, Dmitry Malyshko, Evgeny Plushenko, Adelina Sotnikova, Alexander Tretyakov, Vic Wild, Evgeny Ustyugov, Anton Shipulin and others.
The anthem was performed by a children's choir conducted by Valery Gergiev and accompanied by an orchestra conducted by Yuri Bashmet.
After the official part, the ensemble of drummers of the Moscow military school performed, and then the parade of athletes began.
This time, 88 flag bearers came to the stadium at once, and then all the national teams rose from three sides.
After the parade, the last awarding ceremony of the winners at the 2014 Olympics took place.
First, Norwegian skiers Marit Bjoergen, Teresa Johaug and Kristin Steira, who took the first three places in the 30 km race, received their awards.
Then the winners of the men's 50 km mass start − Alexander Legkov, Maxim Vylegzhanin and Ilya Chernousov rose to the podium.
After the awarding of the Olympians, the performance continued, in which they told about Russian culture through painting, music, ballet, literature and circus art.
Part of the ceremony was dedicated to the transfer of the Olympic flag to the capital of the future Winter Games — the Korean city of Pyeongchang.
After the presentation of the 2018 Olympics, Dmitry Chernyshenko, president of the Sochi 2014 Organizing Committee, took the stage.
He thanked everyone who participated in the preparation of the Olympics, and announced that Russia "fulfilled its promise."
In turn, the head of the IOC, Thomas Bach, addressed the audience in Russian, saying: "Goodbye, Sochi!".
After that, Bach declared the Olympic Games in Sochi closed.
Three Olympic mascots − a Bear, a Bunny and a Leopard − and three main characters appeared on the stage.
Recalling the Olympic Games 80 in Moscow, a fragment of the music of Alexandra Pakhmutova "Goodbye, Moscow" was played at the stadium, after which the Bear blew out the Olympic flame.
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