The 2014 Winter Olympics

The 2014 Winter Olympics, officially the XXII Olympic Winter Games take place from 6 to 23 February 2014, in Sochi, Russia. Ninety-eight events in fifteen winter sports will be held. Both the Olympics and 2014 Winter Paralympics are being organized by the Sochi Organizing Committee (SOC).

The Sochi Olympics is the first Olympics in the Russian Federation since the breakup of the USSR. The USSR was the host of the 1980 Summer Olympics held in and around Moscow.

The host city Sochi is situated in Krasnodar region, which is the third largest region in Russia. Inhabited by around 430,000 people representing over 100 nationalities, the city of Sochi is part of the Krasnodar Region, which has a population of 5.1 million people.

Sochi is located in a unique climatic zone on the shore of the Black Sea, at the foot of the Western Caucasus mountain region. Sochi is famous for its unique combination of Mediterranean and Alpine climate. The average snow cover in the mountains is 2 meters. In winter, the temperature is regularly below zero, but there are usually no severe frosts.
Construction in preparation for the Games involves building new venues and modernizing the telecommunications, electric power, and transportation systems of this area. The Games are organised in two clusters: a coastal cluster for ice events in Sochi, and a mountain cluster located in the Krasnaya Polyana Mountains. This makes it one of the most compact Games ever, with around 30 minutes travel time from the coastal to mountain cluster.

The Sochi Olympic Park is built along the Black Sea coast in the Imeretinskaya Valley, where all the ice venues such as the Bolshoi Ice Palace, the Maly Ice Palace, the Olympic Oval, the Sochi Olympic Skating Centre, the Olympic Curling Centre, the Central Stadium, the Main Olympic Village and the International Broadcast Centre and Main Press Centre, are built anew for the 2014 Games. The Park ensures a very compact concept with an average distance of 6km between the Olympic Village and the other coastal venues.
The mountain cluster in Krasnaya Polyana is home to all the skiing and sliding sports. The mountain concept is again a very compact one with only an average distance of 4km between the mountain sub-village and the venues. There is also a sub-media centre in the mountain cluster.

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