On May 30, 2013, medals of the Winter Olympic Games in Sochi were presented in St. Petersburg. On the obverse of the medal were the Olympic rings, on the reverse - the name of the type of competition on English language and the emblem of the Sochi Games. Depending on the dignity, the weight of the Olympic medals varied from 460 to 531 grams. In total, about 1300 pieces were manufactured.
In total, 1.5 trillion rubles, a record in the history of games, was spent on preparing Sochi for the Olympics, which then corresponded to 51 billion dollars. Of these, the federal budget spent 100 billion rubles on the construction of sports facilities and over 400 billion rubles on the infrastructure of Sochi. The attracted investments for infrastructure amounted to about 900 billion rubles and 114 billion rubles - for sports facilities.
The preparation and holding of the Games contributed to the creation of small and medium-sized enterprises in Russia as a whole, and the total number of jobs in the country's economy created or supported by the Olympic project amounted to 560 thousand.
In total, I was from many regions in preparation for the Olympics.
Much of the Olympic spending that has historically developed only as a summer resort.
In total, in the process of preparing for the Olympic Games, 380 structures were built: objects of coastal and mountain clusters, transport, energy and hotel infrastructure.
For the Olympics, 11 sports facilities were built with a total capacity of 200 thousand spectators. Among them is the Fisht stadium, Ice Palace"Iceberg", Big and Small ice hockey arenas, skating stadium "Adler-Arena", biathlon complex "Laura", bobsleigh track "Sanki", snowboard center and many others. The largest object of the 2014 Games was "" - a single complex for holding competitions in alpine skiing disciplines.
Fire winter Olympics 2014 was lit from a parabolic mirror in Ancient Greek Olympia on September 29, 2013 by actress Ino Menegaki, who played the high priestess of the goddess Hera. The solemn ritual marked the beginning of the Olympic flame relay, which took place in Greece for five days. On October 5, the torch was handed over to the delegation of the Sochi 2014 organizing committee and transported to Moscow, where on October 7 there was fire.
The Sochi 2014 Russian Olympic torch relay has become the longest in the history of the Winter Games. The fire visited 2,900 settlements in all 83 subjects of the federation, 14,000 torchbearers took part in the relay.
For the first time in history Olympic movement fire has traveled to space. In addition, the Olympic flame visited Avachinskaya volcano, an active volcano, and the bottom of Lake Baikal, the deepest lake in the world. The fire reached the North Pole: it was delivered to the very heart of the Arctic by the world's largest nuclear-powered icebreaker of Rosatomflot "50 Years of Victory".
On February 7, 2014 at 20:14 Moscow time, the Olympic Games took place at the Fisht stadium. The opening ceremony reminded viewers all over the world that Russia is a country with a rich culture. The show became the basis.
At the end of the ceremony, the flame of the Olympic Games was lit. With the help of a torch that has been in space, it was lit three times Olympic champions Vladislav Tretyak and Irina Rodnina. The opening ceremony was crowned.
3.5 thousand people took part in the parade of athletes.
TV audience of the opening ceremony of the Sochi Olympics.
2,876 athletes from 88 countries took part in the Games in Sochi. The strongest athletes - Olympic champions and prize-winners of competitions - were determined in 98 types of programs in 15 sports and disciplines.
For the first time, six new countries took part in the Winter Olympics: Malta, Paraguay, East Timor, Togo, Tonga and Zimbabwe.
They did not catch us. Most bright moments Sochi Olympics"Hot. Winter. Yours." A year ago, at the opening ceremony of the XXII Olympic Winter Games Russian team came out to the stadium to the music theme of the Tatu group "They will not catch up with us." And so it happened. Russia won the medal standings with 13 gold, 11 silver and 9 bronze medals.The Russian Olympic team included 241 athletes.
Russian athletes took part in 95 of 98 types of the Games program (with the exception of the women's half-pipe, slope-style and snowboard-cross disciplines).
The Russian national team completed the Winter Olympics in Sochi, taking first place in the medal standings and updating the national records for gold and the total number of awards in the White Games. In the piggy bank of the Russian team: 13 gold, 11 silver and 9 bronze.
Olympic medals at the Games in Sochi were won by representatives of 26 countries, gold - by representatives of 21 countries.
On February 23, 2014, the closing ceremony of the XXII Winter Olympic Games in Sochi was held at the Fisht stadium. The ceremony was divided into several conventional parts, which told the audience about the various cultural traditions of Russia.
For Russian viewers, one of the most touching moments was the episode with the blowing of the Olympic flame. This honor was given by the authors of the ceremony to one of olympic mascots- a huge white bear. Animatronics, depicting a bear, blew out a fire in the stadium on stage, simultaneously extinguishing it in a huge torch bowl outside the Fisht. Part of the episode was accompanied by the song by Alexandra Pakhmutova and Nikolai Dobronravov "Goodbye, Moscow" as a memory of Summer Games 1980 in Moscow, under which the symbol of those Games - the brown Olympic bear - flew away from the Luzhniki stadium. The torch itself is from Nikita Mikhalkov's cult film "One among strangers, a stranger among friends."
According to the IOC, from the Winter Olympics in Sochi amounted to about 3.25 billion rubles ($ 53.1 million).
According to the president of the Sochi 2014 Organizing Committee Dmitry Chernyshenko, the operating income of the Organizing Committee, of which 3.25 billion rubles, is in cash.
The material was prepared on the basis of information from RIA Novosti and open sources
"SE" represents all Russian victors of the XXII Olympic Winter Games
Kind of sport: figure skating
Winners: Evgeny Plushenko, Yulia Lipnitskaya, Elena Ilinykh / Nikita Katsalapov, Tatiana Volosozhar / Maxim Trankov, Ksenia Stolbova / Fedor Klimov, Ekaterina Bobrova / Dmitry Soloviev (team tournament)
The Russian national figure skating team won gold in the team tournament Olympic tournament, which was held for the first time at the Olympics. After eight events, the team consisting of Yulia Lipnitskaya, Evgeny Plushenko, duets Tatyana Volosozhar and Maxim Trankov, Ksenia Stolbova and Fedor Klimov, Ekaterina Bobrova and Dmitry Solovyov, Elena Ilinykh and Nikita Katsalapov scored 75 points. The second place went to the Canadian skaters - 65 points, the third - to the US team with 60 points.
Kind of sport: figure skating
Winners: Tatiana Volosozhar and Maxim Trankov (pair skating)
Tatyana Volosozhar and Maxim Trankov became two-time Olympic champions in Sochi, winning the tournament in pair skating. Taking into account short program they scored 236.86 points (84.17 + 152.69). Another representatives of Russia - Ksenia Stolbova and Fedor Klimov (218.68) - became silver medalists of the 2014 Games.
Kind of sport: short track
Winner: Viktor An
Russians Viktor An and Vladimir Grigoriev became the champion and vice-champion of the Olympic Games in Sochi at a distance of 1000 meters. On February 10, An won bronze at a distance of 1500 meters, which became the first ever medal for our country in short track. In 2006, at the Turin Olympics, he, speaking for Korea, became the champion at distances of 1000, 1500 m, as well as in the relay of 5000 m.
Kind of sport: skeleton
Winner: Alexander Tretyakov
Skeleton player Alexander Tretyakov, following the results of four races, showed a time of 3 minutes 44.29 seconds, which brought him gold medal Games. Silver went to Latvian Martins Dukurs (3.45.10), bronze - to American Matthew Entoine (3.47.26). Tretyakov's gold was the first for Russian athletes in the skeleton at the Olympics: in Vancouver, Tretyakov was third.
Kind of sport: bobsled
Winners: Alexander Zubkov and Alexey Voevoda (deuce)
The Russian crew consisting of Alexander Zubkov and Alexei Voevoda won the doubles competition. The second place was taken by the Swiss team, bronze - by the USA. Another Russian team - Alexander Kasyanov and Maxim Belugin - finished fourth, 0.03 seconds behind third.
Kind of sport: snowboard
Winner: Vic Wilde
Russian Vic Wilde won gold at the Sochi Olympics in the parallel giant slalom. In the first of the two final heats, he lost 0.54 seconds to Nevin Galmarini of Switzerland, but won the second with a margin of 2.14. Slovene Zhan Koshyr became the bronze medalist of the Games. Recall that on the same day, Wilde's wife Alena Zavarzina brought Russia another award, winning bronze in the women's competition.
Kind of sport: figure skating
Winner: Adeline Sotnikova
Russian woman Adelina Sotnikova - Olympic champion Games-2014 in Sochi: this is the first gold in the history of Russia in the women's single skating... The winner scored 224.59 points. The second was the champion of Vancouver-2010 Korean Yuna Kim. The third is Italian Carolina Costner. Another representative of Russia, Olympic champion Sochi-2014 in team competition Yulia Lipnitskaya is the fifth.
Kind of sport: short track
Winner: Viktor An
Russian Viktor An won the gold medal of the 2014 Olympics in Sochi at a distance of 500 m. On February 15, he won the Olympic finals at a distance of 1000 meters. Thus, An became a five-time Olympic champion - the first in the history of short track speed skating. He won all four disciplines - 500 m, 1000 m, 1500 m and the relay race 5000 m.In the first two distances - in Sochi for Russia, in the last three - with Korea in Turin-2006.
Kind of sport: short track
Winners: Victor An, Semyon Elistratov, Vladimir Grigoriev, Ruslan Zakharov (relay)
The Russian national team (Viktor An, Semyon Elistratov, Vladimir Grigoriev, Ruslan Zakharov) won the gold medal in the 5000m relay at the 2014 Olympics in Sochi with Olympic record... Victor An became the six-time Olympic champion in short track speed skating. Note that he already won medals in all four disciplines at the second Olympics: in Turin 2006, he had 3 gold (1000 m, 1500 m, relay) and 1 bronze (500 m) in the Korean national team. In Sochi, he also has 3 gold (500 m, 1000 m, relay) and 1 bronze (1500 m). In addition, An caught up with the famous American Apolo Anton Ono in terms of the number of Olympic medals- by 8.
Kind of sport: snowboard
Winner: Vic Wilde
Russian Vic Wilde won gold at the Sochi Olympics in the parallel slalom. In the first of the two final races, he beat Slovenian Jean Kosher by 0.12 seconds, and in the second he retained this advantage. The bronze medalist of the Games was the Austrian Benjamin Karl. This gold became the second for Wilde in Sochi.
Kind of sport: biathlon
Winner: Alexey Volkov, Evgeny Ustyugov, Dmitry Malyshko, Anton Shipulin (relay)
Russian four won the 4x7.5 km relay. This is the first gold medal for domestic male biathletes in the relay race after the 1988 Olympics.
Kind of sport: ski race
Winner: Alexander Legkov
Russian skiers triumphantly completed the 50 km men's ski mass start, taking the entire podium. Alexander Legkov became the Olympic champion - his time was 1: 46.55.2. Silver was won by Maxim Vylegzhanin, bronze - Ilya Chernousov. Thus, Russia won 12 gold medals, which ensured an early victory in the team medal event at the home Olympic Games in Sochi.
Kind of sport: bobsled
Winners: Alexander Zubkov, Alexey Negodailo, Dmitry Trunenkov, Alexey Voevoda (four)
The crew of Alexander Zubkov, consisting of Alexei Negodailo, Dmitry Trunenkov and Alexei Voevoda, won gold medals at the Sochi Olympics in the four-man competition. For Zubkov and Voevoda, this is already the second gold medal of the 2014 Games - they had previously won the doubles competition. The second place in the tournament of fours was taken by Latvia, bronze - by the USA. The crew of Alexander Kasyanov became the fourth, 0.03 seconds behind the third place. The bobsledders brought Russia 13th gold and helped to consolidate its leadership in the overall team event, both in the number of highest standard medals and in the total number. Russia repeated the record of the USSR national team in 1976 in Innsbruck for the number of gold medals. The total number of medals has now reached 33: 13 gold, 11 silver and 9 bronze.
26 RUSSIANS - OLYMPIC CHAMPIONS OF SOCHI-2014
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Gold |
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Viktor An |
short track |
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Alexey VOEVODA |
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Tatiana VOLOSOZHAR |
figure skating |
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Alexander ZUBKOV |
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Maxim TRANKOV |
figure skating |
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Vic WILD |
snowboard |
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Ekaterina BOBROVA |
figure skating |
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Alexey VOLKOV |
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Vladimir GRIGORIEV |
short track |
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Semyon ELISTRATOV |
short track |
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Ruslan ZAKHAROV |
short track |
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Elena ILYINKH |
figure skating |
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Nikita Katsalapov |
figure skating |
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Fyodor Klimov |
figure skating |
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Alexander LEGKOV |
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Yulia Lipnitskaya |
figure skating |
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Dmitry MALYSHKO |
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Alexey NEGODAILO |
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Evgeny PLYUSHCHENKO |
figure skating |
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Dmitry SOLOVIEV |
figure skating |
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Adeline Sotnikova |
figure skating |
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Ksenia STOLBOVA |
figure skating |
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Alexander TRETYAKOV |
skeleton |
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Dmitry TRUNENKOV |
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Evgeny Ustyugov |
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Anton Shipulin |
Action everywhere, from the Black Sea coast to the Krasnaya Polyana mountains. Superb competition venues for spectacular events, historic performances and numerous records - the XXII Olympic Winter Games kept all their promises. Here are the most memorable athlete exploits that took place in Sochi between 6 and 23 February 2014:
At 10.55 p.m. on Friday 7 February 2014, Russian three-time Olympic champions Irina Rodnina(pairs figure skating) and Vladislav Tretiak(ice hockey) lit the Olympic cauldron.
Norwegian biathlete Ole einar bjørndalen, winner of the sprint 10km and the new Olympic event, mixed relay, brought his medal count to 13, after starting at the Nagano Games in 1998 (8 gold, 4 silver and 1 bronze). He thus overtook his compatriot, Bjørn Daehlie, to become the Olympic Winter Games athlete with the most medals.
Norwegian cross-country skier Marit Bjørgen won three more gold medals in Sochi (skiathlon, team sprint and 30km freestyle), making a total of six since her first title in Vancouver in 2010, as well as a total of 10 medals won since the Games in Salt Lake City in 2002, becoming one of the Olympic Winter Games female athlete with the most medals (with Smetanina and Belmondo).
In Alpine skiing, gold medals were won by the youngest-ever Olympic champion in the history of the discipline, American Mikaela Shiffrin, 18 years and 345 days old, and the oldest, Austria’s Mario matt, aged 34 and 10 months. American Bode miller, third in the Super-G at the age of 36 years and 127 days, became the oldest-ever medallist in his discipline.
Japan's Ayumu Hirano, 15 years and 73 days old, became the youngest ever medallist on the snow in the history of the Games, when he won the silver medal in the snowboard half-pipe competition.
Russian luger Albert Demchenko and Japanese ski jumping champion Noriaki Kasai, both in their forties, were competing in their seventh edition of the Games, both winning two medals in Sochi. Kasai also equalled the record for the longest interval between two (silver) medals: 20 years!
Like Marit Bjørgen, Belarusian biathlete Darya Domracheva and Russian short-track speed skater Victor An won three gold medals at the XXII Olympic Winter Games. But the athlete who won the most medals at these Games was Ireen Wüst, with five speed skating medals (two gold, three silver)!
Ireen Wüst was a member of the Netherlands speed skating team which won 23 medals, achieved four top-three clean sweeps and was present on every one of the 12 podiums, men’s and women’s alike. A unique domination of one discipline at the Games.
For the first time in figure skating, the 100-point barrier was broken in a short program, by Japan’s Yuzuru Hanyu(101.45), who went on to win the gold medal.
Bronze medallist in 1994, silver in 1998, gold in 2002 and 2006 and bronze in 2010 and 2014, Italian luger Armin Zöggeler became the first athlete to win six consecutive medals in six editions of the Winter Games.
The first winners of the 12 new Olympic events were:
Russia (team figure skating), Germany (luge relay), Norway (biathlon mixed relay), Germany's Carina Voigt (women's ski jumping), Canadian Dara Howell and American Joss Christensen (ski slopestyle), Americans Maddie Bowman and David Wise (ski half -pipe), Jamie Anderson and Sage Kotsenburg (snowboard slopestyle), Austrian's Julia Dujmovits and Russian Vic Wild (snowboard parallel slalom).
winter Olympic Games 2014 (XXII Winter Olympic Games)- international sport's event held from 7 to 23 February 2014 in the Russian city of Sochi.
City selection
On June 22, 2006, IOC President Jacques Rogge named three candidate cities out of seven applications (Khaka, Alma-Ata, Sofia, Borjomi, Sochi, Salzburg, Pyeongchang). They were Sochi, Salzburg and Pyeongchang.
On July 4, 2007, the 119th IOC session took place in Guatemala, at which the host city of the Olympics was selected.
Presentations of the candidate cities took place immediately before the voting. 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, in which 97 participants-representatives of the IOC countries took part, the Austrian Salzburg was eliminated. In the second round, Sochi won the bid, winning 4 votes against 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 title to host the 2014 Games
Talismans
The mascots of the 2014 Winter Olympics were the White Bear, Leopard and Bunny.
We chose talismans with difficulty and adventure. Several votes were declared invalid, the winning options were rejected, and the voting time was postponed.
The final results of the vote were as follows:
Leopard (author Vadim Pak, Nakhodka) - 28.2% of the votes
White Bear (author Oleg Serdechny, Sochi) - 18.3% of the votes
Bunny (author Sylvia Petrova, Novoye Buyanovo village, Yantikovsky district, Chuvashia) - 16.4% of the votes.
The choice has been criticized. In particular, it was pointed out that the composition of the Sochi mascots (Leopard, White Bear and Bunny) is almost identical to the trinity of the Olympic Games mascots in (Coyote, Bear and Hare). The graphic performance of the White Bear as a whole, and especially the muzzle and the large round head, is more typical for brown bears than for whites, whose heads are elongated. There is also a similarity to plagiarism of the White Bear with the mascot of the Moscow summer bear, Misha, as indicated by the creator of the latter's image, Viktor Chizhikov.
The World Wildlife Fund in Russia suggested that the Sochi 2014 Organizing Committee edit the drawing with the Leopard, arguing that the color of the fur the animal depicted looks more like a snow 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 Olympics on February 7, 2014.
The route of the Olympic flame in the regions of Russia was presented by the Sochi 2014 organizing committee exactly one year before the start of the relay. Within 123 days, the torch of the Games in the hands of athletes will cover more than 65 thousand kilometers in cars, trains, planes, as well as in a Russian troika and reindeer teams in front of 130 million inhabitants of 2,900 settlements of Russia, will visit the capitals of all 83 constituent entities of the Russian Federation.
The torch design was developed by the creative team of the AstraRossa Design Center for Industrial Design and Innovation under the leadership of Vladimir Pirozhkov and Andrey Vodyanik. For the purchase of 15,000 torches, 207 million rubles were spent from the budget of the Russian Federation.
The entire course of the relay was accompanied by incidents. During the first day alone, the fire, despite the assurances of the designers that "the torch will not go out either under water or in space," was extinguished four times. The whole world flew around the footage of the first fading, when the extinguished torch was set on fire by an FSO officer with an ordinary lighter.
The torch continued to extinguish 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.
A few days later, Santa Claus almost burned down in Vologda.
The Olympic flame was also extinguished in the hands of dignitaries. The Minister of Culture of the Russian Federation Vladimir Medinsky also ran with the extinguished torch.
Then the torchbearers themselves began to burn. So, Peter 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 escorts extinguished the torchbearer.
The opening ceremony
The ceremony began at 20:14 Moscow time.
The ceremony included a traditional parade of participants in the Olympic Games. The parade was attended by 88 delegations. The Russian national team came out last, completing the parade. The delegation was headed by the standard-bearer Alexander Zubkov.
Alexander Zubkov
After that, the audience at the stadium saw a theatrical performance that demonstrated the main milestones in 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 trapeze artists.
As part of the official part of the ceremony, the head of the organizing committee of the Games Dmitry Chernyshenko, the head of the International Olympic Committee Thomas Bach and Russian President Vladimir Putin made statements. The President of Russia has declared the Olympic Games open.
The Olympic flag was carried to the stadium by tennis player Maria Sharapova. After that, the torch was carried by several more eminent Russian athletes, and the fire was lit in the arena by Irina Rodnina and Vladislav Tretyak.
Maria Sharapova
Irina Rodnina and Vladislav Tretyak
The ceremony was marked with 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.
Sleeping Dmitry Medvedev at the opening ceremony of the Sochi Olympics
Closing ceremony
The closing ceremony of the XXII Olympic Winter 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 ceremony was directed by Italian theater director Daniele Finzi Pasca.
At the beginning of the ceremony, the main character of the opening of the Games appeared before the audience - the girl Lyuba, who this time was joined by two friends - Valya and Yura, named after the cosmonauts Valentina Tereshkova and Yuri Gagarin. First, the children sailed in a boat on the sea, in which 700 people were dancing in shiny costumes. The dancers at the stadium formed different figures - the yin-yang sign, infinity, starfish. In the end, four groups of dancers stood in the four Olympic rings, and the fifth - huddled in a circle, depicting a ring that did not open at the opening on February 7.
After the first part of the performance at the stadium, Russian President Vladimir Putin and the head of the International Olympic Committee Thomas Bach were introduced. To the left of Putin this time sat two-time Olympic bobsleigh champion Russian Alexander Zubkov, who was the standard-bearer at the opening of the Olympics.
The Russian flag was carried to Fisht by the Olympic champions of Sochi from the Russian national team, including Viktor An, Ekaterina Bobrova, Alexey Volkov, Tatiana Volossozhar, Vladimir Grigoriev, Elena Ilinykh, Yulia Lipnitskaya, Dmitry Malyshko, Evgeni Plushenko, Adelina Sotnikova, Alexander Tretyakov, Vic Wilde, 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, an ensemble of drummers from the Moscow military school performed, and then a parade of athletes began. This time, first, 88 flag-bearers entered the stadium at once, and then all the national teams rose from three sides.
After the parade, the last awards ceremony at the 2014 Olympics took place. First, Norwegian skiers Marit Bjorgen, Teresa Johaug and Christine Steira took the first three places in the 30 km race. Then the winners of the men's 50 km mass start - Alexander Legkov, Maxim Vylegzhanin and Ilya Chernousov - climbed the podium.
After the Olympians were awarded, the performance continued, in which Russian culture was told 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 "has 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 Sochi Olympic Games closed. Three mascots of the Olympics - Bear, Bunny and Leopard - and three main characters appeared on the stage. Recalling, a fragment of Alexandra Pakhmutova's music "Goodbye, Moscow" was performed at the stadium, after which Mishka blew out the Olympic flame.
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On February 7, 2014, the XXII Winter Olympic Games opened in Sochi. This is the second Olympics for Russia, the first - the 1980 Olympics - is remembered even by those who were just a child at the time of it in Moscow. But that was summer, and this is winter - everything is completely different, and the country was agitated again, like the first time. The fact that Sochi, a resort city and " summer capital”Russia was at first confusing. However, it immediately became clear that this was just another challenge, an additional reason for pride: Sochi became the first city with a subtropical climate to host the Winter Olympic Games.
Sochi's bid to host the 2014 Games was declared the winner following the 119th session of the International Olympic Committee on July 4, 2007. By tradition, at the closing ceremony of the 2010 Olympics in Vancouver, a solemn program was held Olympic flag to the mayor of the city of Sochi Anatoly Pakhomov, after which the Russian flag flew over the stadium and the spectators in the stands and at the TV screens witnessed the presentation of Sochi as the hostess of the next Winter Olympics. The performance was attended by model Natalia Vodianova, prima ballerina Ulyana Lopatkina, figure skaters Tatyana Navka and Roman Kostomarov, opera singer Maria Guleghina, the Mariinsky Theater Symphony Orchestra conducted by Valery Gergiev. In the final of the performance, a huge logo of the Sochi Olympics appeared at the stadium.
The 2014 Games were held at two venues. The ski resort "Krasnaya Polyana", 39 km from the city, hosted outdoor sports: bobsleigh, cross-country skiing, downhill skiing, etc. Among other Olympic facilities, a bobsleigh track "Rzhanaya Polyana" appeared here, ski resort Rosa Khutor (its first stage was opened at the end of 2010) and the Olympic Mountain Village.
And in Sochi itself they built a grandiose Olympic park for competitions in figure skating, ice hockey, ice skating, curling - in general, those sports that require indoor spaces.
The Olympic Park in Sochi included the following facilities:
- Big Ice Arena- hockey, 12,000 spectators,
- Small ice arena - hockey, 7000 spectators,
- Speed skating center - speed skating, 8000 spectators,
- Ice Sports Palace - figure skating, short track, 12,000 spectators,
- Curling arena - curling, 3000 spectators,
- Olympic Stadium, 40,000 spectators,
- The main Olympic village.
The organizing committee of the Olympics in Sochi presented the emblem of the Games on December 1, 2009, and on February 26, 2011, the results of the nationwide vote were summed up and three mascots for the upcoming Olympics were chosen - a polar bear, a leopard and a hare. The song recorded for Sochi's application to the IOC by Russian pop stars became the anthem of the games.
The Olympic Games in Sochi lasted 17 days, 92 sets of medals were played in 15 sports. The right to host the Olympics means in itself the recognition of Russia as a strong player in the international arena. And such a large sporting event always contributes to the development of the infrastructure of the region in which it is held, to an increase in the attractiveness of the region for tourists and to the international prestige of the host country.
Sochi became the first city with a subtropical climate to host the Winter Olympic Games.
In order to be involved in the most important sporting event in the life of the country, it was not at all necessary to be a member of the organizing committee of the Games. The Olympic and Paralympic Games could not have been organized and held without the participation of enthusiastic volunteers. The Sochi Olympics involved 25,000 volunteers.
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