Winter Olympics 2014 Sochi

The Winter Olympics, officially the XXII Winter Olympics, is a major international multi-sport event being held in Sochi, Russia, with the official opening ceremony scheduled for 7 February and the closing ceremony for 23 February 2014.

The largest Winter Olympic ever, with 88 competing countries and 98 events in 15 winter sport disciplines, 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.

Link to official website: sochi2014.com

Calendar

All dates are MSK (UTC+4)

Medals

The Olympic medals weigh between 460 and 531 grams depending on the metal used - gold, silver or bronze - and will be 10mm thick and 100mm in diameter. In total, about 1,300 medals will be manufactured for these Winter Olympics 2014.

Link to medals: Medal count Winter Olympics 2014 Sochi

Most controversial Winter Games

The lead-up to the Winter Olympics was marked by several major controversies, including allegations of corruption leading to the aforementioned cost overruns, concerns for the safety and human rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) athletes and supporters during the Games due to the country's recent ban on the promotion of LGBT relationships to minors, which led to ongoing protests, and various security concerns over threats by jihadist groups tied to the insurgency in the North Caucasus.

Google protest

"The practice of sport is a human right. Every individual must have the possibility of practising sport, without discrimination of any kind and in the Olympic spirit, which requires mutual understanding with a spirit of friendship, solidarity and fair play." - Olympic Charter

(edited)

On a more serious note, Hockey should be interesting.

Hypocrite.

I think speed skating will be interesting, and ofcourse hopefully many (gold) medals for the Netherlands as speed skating is 'our' sport :)

let me guess, these 2 bitches are norwegian cross country skiiers in the procedure of giving their urinal sampels to wada. if u wonder how did I know, then I just read it out from their smile

Russians

Good topic !!

:)

i'm waiting for the ski and snowboard cross :)
Love this event :)

GO SLOVENIA!!!!

Winter Olympics LOL :p

nigga I heard ur country gonna win some medals in bobsled race in olympics

"Winter Olympics" sounds like "Futsal World Cup", doesn't it? :P

Nobody cares, apart from the Dutchies.

are there going to be any events jamaicans will be interested other than bobsled

actually there are some nations quite into these Olympics

I never watch them though, I don't even watch the regular Olympics...:p

well ski jumping is fun...cause we win sometimes...:P and you only have to watch like 5 minutes of it :p

if I were to watch the biathlon for hours...ugh...so boring, I'd rather be sleeping