Ski-ing will be just one of the sports included at the sochi games
The International Olympic Committee are impressed with the progress being made in preparation for the Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia in 2014. Sixty test events are planned ahead of the games with several outreach programs aiming to involve local people in the sporting festival.
Dmitry Chernyshenko, President of the Sochi 2014 Organising Committee, said:
“I am delighted that the IOC Coordination Commission has confirmed the strong progress made by Sochi 2014. There is still plenty to do but it is encouraging that they feel we are in good shape and that they have highlighted the work we are doing to engage people right across the country.”
55,000 workers are preparing the venues for the 2014 Winter Olympics and 140,000 have had the theme of the Olympiad included in their lessons. Volunteers have been recruited from 26 universities to help communicate the Sochi 2014 message throughout Russia.
In This Story: 2014 Winter Olympics
The 2014 Winter Olympics took place from 7th – 23rd February 2014, in Sochi, Krasnodar Krai, Russia.
Russia, or the Russian Federation, is a transcontinental country located in Eastern Europe and Northern Asia. It extends from the Baltic Sea in the west to the Pacific Ocean in the east, and from the Arctic Ocean in the north to the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea in the south.
Russia spans more than one-eighth of the Earth’s inhabited land area, stretching eleven time zones, and bordering 16 sovereign nations. Moscow is the country’s capital.
The Soviet Union was dissolved in 1991 and since 1993 Russia been governed as a federal semi-presidential republic. Russia is a major great power, with the world’s second-most powerful military, and the fourth-highest military expenditure. As a recognised nuclear-weapon state, the country possesses the world’s largest stockpile of nuclear weapons.
