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2014 Winter Olympics

February 7, 2014 by · Comments Off on 2014 Winter Olympics 

2014 Winter Olympics, 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. Officially scheduled for 7 February through 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. The Sochi Olympics will be the first Olympics in the Russian Federation 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 will be held throughout the Games. A number of new competitions—a total of twelve 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 was 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 will be held in the resort settlement of Krasnaya Polyana.

Sochi 2014

November 12, 2013 by · Comments Off on Sochi 2014 

Sochi 2014, Breaking up the NHL season for the Olympics and risking player injuries when they’re not even making money for their team owners is an “imperfect solution,” says league commissioner Gary Bettman.

NHL stars will compete in the Sochi Olympics in February but a World Cup of Hockey would be a better option going forward, Bettman told the Prime Time Sports Management conference in Toronto on Monday.

But, at the same event, Bob Nicholson, CEO of Hockey Canada, argued that the global reach of the Olympics makes it an important part of hockey’s future and the best players should continue to take to the Olympic ice every four years.

“NHL owners are involved in the game because they want to make money and we have to understand that but . . . we shouldn’t pick off the Olympics, which is the highest-profile sporting event in the world. We should use the Olympics so we can all benefit, make dollars and promote the game in a lot of different ways,” Nicholson said.

The NHL needs the Olympics to open up new markets and grow its brand, particularly in Asia, said Rene Fasel, president of the International Ice Hockey Federation.

“We have 500 hockey players in China, not 500 million or 500,000 but 500 out of population of 1.3 billion people and 60 ladies are playing,” Fasel said.

The next few Olympics are especially important for those markets. The 2018 Winter Games are in Pyeongchang, South Korea and China is expected to bid for the 2022 Games.

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March 1, 2010 by · Comments Off on Sochi Russia | USsPost.com 

Sochi RussiaSochi Russia | USsPost.com:American athletes might not be able to train in places years before the Olympic Games, a feature they were in Vancouver. But there are other factors that may be similar to Vancouver, such as mild climate and poss
Reporting from Vancouver, Canada – Worldsnowboarding.com offered comprehensive look at the mountain resort of Krasnaya Polyana strange, and Russia, with one seemingly simple denunciation.

The website of the resort only drawback was its size and mild climate, “which means that there are very serious to find a little snow in the least runs until January.”

Wait a minute. . . .

We just did not go through these past two weeks, let alone lead an angry follow-up efforts to redistribute snow to weather the challenge Cypress mountains?

Now, we may go through it all again in the Olympic Games in Sochi, 2014?

You can say Sochi, Russia, and Vancouver, Canada, has a lot in common.

Vancouver is indicated by the rest of Canada as the “Lotus Land”, and Sochi, nicknamed “the Russian Riviera,” the Black Sea resort for the rich and famous.

Then there is the birthplace of hockey pressure. If you think that pressure on the gold medal-winning hockey team Canada was extensive, and I think “strangle” in Russia.

One newspaper headline called Russia 7-3 at the quarter-finals in Canada, “a nightmare in Vancouver.”

Unlike Sochi, Vancouver may boast of preparing in advance of its facilities. When attention turned to Vancouver at the end of 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, all but two of the facilities had been completed.

Construction is under way in Sochi, but organizers do not expect a first test event in Alpine skiing, even after a year from now. There are two sets of competition, which combines coastal playground for the central and ice hockey and ice skating stadiums, and the mountain sports place in Krasnaya Polyana, which will phase inskiing and snowboarding, luge, among other events.

Sochi 2014 CEO Dmitry Chernyshenko said Saturday that his organization brought a group of 150 to monitor the Vancouver Games and close attention to the issues of Cypress Mountain.

“The major milestone is to provide everything [in] two years, two seasons ago to compete in the Games,” he said. “Well in advance. So we’re looking in plenty of time to acquire sites and training of our employees.”

And one for the United States is that the athletes playing in Vancouver years were available in advance, and not too far.

Nordic combined gold medal skier Bill Demong was coming to Canada for training as far back as three years.

“We felt like our home games, which is part of the reason why we do it well,” he said. “It will be a little different [in 2014]. You can not just get a few hours of flying, and go to Sochi.”

Mike Plant, head of mission for the United States team, said that the U.S. Olympic Committee will send the scouts in Sochi this year.

“And start looking at stadiums and geography, the region and start to understand that years ago,” and said: “Even when we have games, we are probably the best team prepared not only because of competition [athletes], but also because of our operations. Combine that with the commitment to The passion and dedication these athletes, you come up with a very strong. “

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