Olympic games in Sochi 2014

Olympic games in Sochi 2014
The 2014 winter Olympic games - international sporting event to be held in the Russian city of Sochi from 7 to February 23, 2014. The capital of the Olympic games in Sochi in 2014 was selected during the 119th IOC session in Guatemala city, the capital of Guatemala on July 4th, 2007 year the territory of Russia Olympic games will be held for the second time the first winter Games. After the Olympic games on those same sites will be conducted Paralympic winter games in 2014. Organization of winter Olympic and Paralympic games 2014 engaged in Organizing Committee «Sochi 2014» Emblem-logo December 1, 2009, the Sochi 2014 Organizing Committee presented the emblem of the Games-2014. The ceremony of presentation of the emblem was held on red square in Moscow, which was flooded with a large ice rink. Presenters were sports journalist Kirill Nabutov and Olympic champion in ice dancing Tatiana Navka. Participants observed a minute of silence in memory of those killed in the crash of the Nevsky Express, IOC President Jacques Rogge, representatives of the organizing Committee and leading expressed their condolences. Then spoke the Olympic champion, the world champion in the slalom, Jean-Claude Killy, the President of the organising Committee Dmitry Chernyshenko, the representative of the government of the Russian Federation Dmitry Kozak. The ice show of world and Europe champion Ilya averbouh participated Olympic Champions and medalists of the Olympic games, world and European Champions Vladislav Tretyak, Vyacheslav Fetisov, Sergey Makarov, Roman Kostomarov, Alexey Yagudin, Irina Slutskaya, world Champions Albena Denkova and Maxim Stavitsky, other famous athletes. At this time on the stage of the Russian pop stars sing the anthem of Sochi, were the champion of Eurovision 2008 Dima Bilan, champion of Eurovision 2009 Alexander Rybak, Valeria, Larisa Dolina, Maksim, and other famous artists. The emblem of the Games has been presented under the colorful fireworks. Took place the conference between Moscow, Krasnaya Polyana, where the TV presenter Andrey Malakhov presented the emblem of Sochi. Lev Leschenko and Alsu sang a song about Olympic bear, and on the big screen showed footage of the Olympic games in Moscow. Talismans September 1, 2010 the organizing Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic winter games in Sochi in conjunction with the newspaper «Izvestia» announced the all-Russia competition of the mascots of the games, which could be taken by anyone. December 21, the jury chose 10 of them options for the Olympic games and 3 for the Paralympic for further voting and утверждения.Из final options mascots were finally selected on 26 February 2011, during voting and the TV show «Талисмания". Sochi 2014. Finals on the First channel. Jury announced the three winners, all white, corresponding to the winter character of the Olympics, which became the mascots: White bear, Snow leopard, Sweetie. Slogan «Hot. Cool. Yours» Olympic watch Exactly 1,000 days before the Olympic games in Sochi in many cities of Russia were running countdown clock that you can observe many days, hours, minutes and seconds is left till the opening of the Olympics. So the Olympic countdown clock began in Nizhny Novgorod, Khabarovsk, Novosibirsk, Ekaterinburg, Pyatigorsk, Rostov-on-don, Saint-Petersburg and Moscow. Olympic flame The Olympic torch relay began in Moscow on 7 October 2013 and will end in Sochi on February 7, 2014 in the Olympic torch relay will take part 14 thousand torchbearers Coins and banknotes Participating countries Olympic Park «Fisht»Olympic stadium «Bolshoy» Ice arena «Puck» Curling center «Ice cube» The iceberg winter Palace» «Adler-Arena»