The 2014 Winter Games in Sochi, Russia (along the Black Sea) are just 1914 days away. Below are some scenes of the Olympic site beginning to take shape. It’s certainly a lovely place. It’ll be interesting to see how it develops.

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After Vancouver in 2010, after London in 2012, the Olympics will be held in the Russian Black Sea resort town of Sochi. This lesser-known town of around 400,000 residents will be the first Russian town to host a Winter Olympic Games. Not historically known for their winter sports athletes, Russians are busy preparing for the Sochi Games–even six years in advance. The video below gives a good overview of the city and its potential winter Olympians and Paralympians. It’s a little long, but it’s well made and (I think) interesting.

29 November 2007 – The International Olympic Committee (IOC) today announced the names of the members of the IOC’s Coordination Commission for the Sochi 2014 Olympic Winter Games.
Composed of Olympic gold medallists to look after the athletes’ interests, representatives of the major Olympic Movement stakeholders – National Olympic Committees (NOC) and International Federations (IF) – and other experts in different areas of Games operations, the Commission will be assisting and monitoring the work of the Sochi 2014 Organising Committee during the coming six-and-a-half years of preparations and building on the positive start that has been made since Sochi’s election in …read more

12 September 2007 – The International Olympic Committee (IOC) today announced that IOC member Jean-Claude Killy, the legendary French Alpine skier and triple Olympic champion, has accepted the Chairmanship of the Coordination Commission for the Sochi 2014 Olympic Winter Games. The appointment was made by Jacques Rogge, President of the IOC.
“Jean-Claude Killy’s knowledge of the Olympic Movement makes him the ideal person to guide Sochi as it prepares for the Olympic Winter Games in 2014,” said Rogge. “His relevant and recent experience as an outstanding Chairman of the Turin 2006 Coordination Commission will be a great asset for the IOC …read more

28 August 2007 – Less than two months after the 119th IOC Session in Guatemala City awarded the XXII Olympic Winter Games to the city of Sochi, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) has sent a delegation from the IOC administration, led by the IOC’s Olympic Games Executive Director Gilbert Felli, to meet with representatives of Sochi 2014 in order to lay the ground work for the close collaboration that will exist between these two organisations over the next seven years. The meeting allowed the IOC delegation to explain to the Sochi representatives how the IOC works with an Olympic Games …read more

4 July 2007 – The International Olympic Committee (IOC) today elected Sochi (Russian Federation) as the host city of the XXII Olympic Winter Games in 2014 during its 119th Session in Guatemala City. Sochi beat PyeongChang in the final round of voting by 51 votes to 47.
At the signing of the Host City Contract, which sets out the legal, commercial and financial rights and obligations of the IOC, the host city and the National Olympic Committee (NOC) of the host country in relation to the Olympic Games, the IOC President, Jacques Rogge, congratulated the Sochi team for winning the vote …read more