Sochi Olympic Games. Olympic Games in Sochi Winter Olympics achievements

From February 7 to February 23, 2014, the XXII Winter Olympic Games were held in the Russian resort city of Sochi.
The opening and closing of the Winter Olympics in Sochi, the results, the symbols, all this is history.

Let's remember how it was.

Choosing the capital of the 2014 Olympics

Sochi was officially announced as the venue for the 2014 Olympics in July 2007 at the 119th IOC session held in Guatemala.

In a tough competition to become the host of the 2014 Winter Olympics, Russia defeated South Korea (PyeongChang) and Austria (Salzburg).

Symbols of the Olympics in Sochi

Leopard, Polar Bear and Bunny were chosen as the mascots of the 2014 Winter Olympic Games. The process was difficult and adventurous. Many options were rejected, voting dates were often postponed, but, nevertheless, these three cute, cute creatures forever went down in the history of the Olympic movement, just like the 1980 Olympic Bear.

Olympic torch relay

It became the largest and longest in the history of all Winter Olympic Games. The start was given on October 7, 2013, and ended on the opening day of the Games on February 7, 2014.

• In 123 days, the torch of the Winter Olympics in Sochi traveled more than 65 thousand km.
• He traveled by car, plane, train, and even by reindeer sled and Russian troika.
• The Olympic torch relay passed through 83 capitals of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation, 2900 settlements of the Russian Federation.
• He was greeted by 130,000 people.

The path to Olympic Sochi was not easy and was accompanied by incidents. Only in the first day the fire went out 4 times, and then more than once. At the finish line, the flames got onto the sleeve of the bobsledder's jacket, and those accompanying him extinguished it.

Opening of the Olympics in Sochi 2014

The ceremony began exactly at 20:14 Moscow time. A parade of Olympic Games participants took place, in which 88 delegations took part. According to tradition, the parade in honor of the opening of the Olympics in Sochi was completed by the Russian team as the host country of the 2014 Winter Olympics. At the head was the standard bearer Alexander Zubkov.

Next, the audience saw an interesting theatrical performance that covered the main stages of Russian history - from Ancient Rus' to the Soviet Union. In total, 980 acrobats and 1,200 dancers, as well as 200 aerialists, took part in the opening ceremony.
Of course, it was not without the Olympic mascots who greeted those gathered and assured everyone that the Olympics in Sochi, the results of which will certainly go down in the history of sports, will be held at the highest level.

The official part of the opening ceremony of the Sochi Olympics included the head of the International Olympic Games Thomas Bach, the head of the organizing committee of the Sochi Games Dmitry Chernyshenko, Russian President Vladimir Putin, who declared the Sochi Olympics open.

The Olympic torch was carried by tennis player Maria Sharapova, the flag was carried by several famous Russian athletes, and the flame in the arena was lit by the legendary figure skater Irina Rodnina and hockey player Vladislav Tretyak.

A couple of incidents at the opening of the games: at the beginning of the performance, one of the five Olympic rings opened, the former President of Russia, Dmitry Medvedev, fell asleep in the midst of the ceremony.

The opening ceremony of the Olympics in Sochi ended with a grandiose fireworks display.

Competitions

As part of the XXII Winter Olympic Games, competitions were held in 15 disciplines combined into 7 winter sports:

• Biathlon.
• Bobsled.
• Skeleton.
• Sports competitions on ice skating.
• Skiing sports.
• Luge.
• Ice hockey.

Athletes from 88 countries came to compete for Olympic medals in Sochi, which was a new Olympic record.
For the first time, exotic countries such as Malta, Paraguay, East Timor, Togo, Tonga and Zimbabwe took part in the Winter Olympics.

The winner in the team event was the Russian Olympic Team, which won
13 gold, 11 silver, and 8 bronze medals at the Sochi Olympics.

Closing ceremony of the Olympics in Sochi

The closing ceremony of the XXII Winter Olympic Games lasted for 2.5 hours at the Fisht stadium. It started on February 23, at 20:14 Moscow time. The main topic was Russian culture through the eyes of a European. The production was carried out by Italian theater director Daniele Finzi Pasca.

At the beginning of the closing ceremony of the Olympics in Sochi, the girl Lyuba, the main character of the opening of the Games, appeared in front of the audience, and Valya and Yura (in honor of cosmonauts Valentina Tereshkova and Yuri Gagarin) joined the audience.

After the first part, the head of the International Olympic Committee, Thomas Bach, and Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke. who summed up the results of the Olympics in Sochi.

The Russian flag was carried into the stadium by the champions of the Sochi Olympics from Russia: Viktor An, Alexey Volkov, Ekaterina Bobrova, Vladimir Grigoriev, Tatyana Volosozhar, Elena Ilinykh, Dmitry Malyshko, Yulia Lipnitskaya, Evgeni Plushenko, Alexander Tretyakov, Adelina Sotnikova, Vic Wilde, Anton Shipulin , Evgeny Ustyugov and others.

The children's choir conducted by Valery Gergiev performed the anthem. Next, the audience saw and heard a drummer ensemble from the Moscow Military School. A parade of athletes took place, 88 flag bearers came out, and all the teams rose from three sides. The last awards ceremony for the winners of the 2014 Olympics took place.

The second part of the performance told about Russian painting, ballet, music, literature and circus.

After handing over the Olympic flag to the Korean city of Pyeongchang, host of the 2018 Olympics, IOC head Thomas Bach said in Russian: “Goodbye, Sochi!”

Three symbols of the Sochi Olympics appeared on the stage: the Bunny, the Bear and the Leopard. To the sounds of Alexandra Pakhmutova’s music “Goodbye, Moscow” (Olympics 80), Mishka blew out the Olympic flame.

OK it's all over Now. Three years and nine months after the end of the 2014 Olympics, the Russian team is no longer its triumphant. This is a sport, this happens. Now it happens.

Zubkov, Stulneva, Fatkulina and Rumyantsev disqualified by the IOC

In 2014, this was the goal and task - to show Russia’s sporting superiority at the home Games. Nothing good or bad, just a common and logical desire of the “tops”, and in any country. There was pride and joy. Today, November 24, all that remains is humiliation and confusion. The great victory, no matter how it was obtained, was taken away. So far - without evidence and with an open mockery of the laws of jurisprudence and logic. But only for now.

Which means the automatic deprivation of two gold medals won by Russia in the doubles and fours. And Russia’s no less automatic loss of first overall team place in the home Olympics standings. Then, on the evening of February 23, 2014, this competition delighted, sparkled and shimmered with wonderful lights. We were the best in all major indicators.

Immediately after the end of the Olympics in Sochi, no one had any complaints about its results. At least, no one expressed them out loud. All samples of the Games winners turned out to be clean, and therefore the results were immediately recorded in the annals of sports history. At that time, no one had yet heard about the system of state support for doping in Russia, scratches on test tubes and plumbers from the FSB. If you told anyone, they would twirl their finger at your temple.

Russian athletes who lost medals at the 2014 Olympic Games due to disqualification

Gold
Bobsleigh, doubles - , Alexey Voevoda
Bobsleigh, fours - , Alexey Negodaylo, Dmitry Trunenkov, Alexey Voevoda
Cross-country skiing, 50 km - Alexander Legkov
Skeleton - Alexander Tretyakov.

Silver
Cross-country skiing, relay race - Alexander Bessmertnykh, Maxim Vylegzhanin, Alexander Legkov, Dmitry Yaparov
Cross-country skiing, team sprint - Maxim Vylegzhanin, Nikita Kryukov
Cross-country skiing, mass start - Maxim Vylegzhanin
Speed ​​skating, 500 m - Olga Fatkulina.

Bronze
Skeleton - Elena Nikitina.

But in three years everything has changed dramatically. The first impetus was given by the scandalous film by Hayo Seppelt with the participation of the Stepanov family couple (remember them?), Then there were the McLaren report, problems with the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, the neutral flag of track and field athletes, countless courts and commissions. As a result, it came to the point that Russian athletes, without any evidence, were deprived of Olympic awards and banned for life from participating in the Games. For such decisions, commissions must have damning evidence at their disposal. But if they exist, no one is in a hurry to announce them.

Return to 37th. Who will they come for next time?

Unproven arrests of Russians continue. Today it is Olympic champion Tretyakov. And tomorrow - Zaitseva and Shipulin?

In early November, a decision was made to disqualify Russian skiers. All Sochi achievements of Alexander Legkov and Maxim Vylegzhanin were annulled, which deprived the Russian team of four awards in cross-country skiing. On November 22, skeleton athletes also suffered: Alexander Tretyakov lost the title of Olympic champion, and Elena Nikitina was left without a bronze medal. All this led to changes in the medal standings, but there were no major changes. The national team of our country lost its medal record in the entire history of the team’s performances at the Winter Olympics and let the teams of the USA and Norway ahead in the total number of medals, but, according to the European calculation method (gold is counted first), it retained its leadership in the medal standings.

Hit the bobsled for the third time. Of the three possible gold medals in Sochi, the Russians won two: Alexey Voevoda also distinguished himself in the doubles, and Dmitry Trunenkov and Alexey Negodaylo helped the famous Russian pair in the fourth. The double victory was a truly historical success, because even Soviet bobsledders had previously managed to win the Olympics only once - in 1988. The International Olympic Committee has deprived us of a historic achievement. The results of the best Russian crews at the Sochi Olympics were cancelled.

Little consolation can be the fact that in both cases, when the medals are redistributed, bronze will go to the second Russian teams, whose pilot was Alexander Kasyanov. The Russian team, although it is not losing in the number of medals, is noticeably declining in quality: 12 gold medals turn into ten, which means that according to the European counting system adopted by us, our national team ceases to be the winner of the home Olympics. The Norwegian team is in first place with 11 gold medals. The Canadian team comes in second, and the Russians drop to third place.

But nothing seems to be finished yet...

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 medalist 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 equaled 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 dominance 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 medalist 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).

On May 30, 2013, the medals of the Winter Olympic Games in Sochi were presented in St. Petersburg. On the front side of the medal were the Olympic rings, on the back - the name of the competition in English and the emblem of the Sochi Games. Depending on the value, the weight of Olympic medals varied from 460 to 531 grams. In total, about 1300 pieces were produced.

In total, a record 1.5 trillion rubles in the history of the games were spent on preparing Sochi for the Olympics, which then corresponded to $51 billion. Of this, the federal budget spent 100 billion rubles on the construction of sports facilities and over 400 billion rubles on the infrastructure of Sochi. Investments attracted 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 throughout Russia, and the total number of jobs in the country's economy created or supported by the Olympic project amounted to 560 thousand.
In total, preparations for the Olympics came from many regions.

Much of the Olympic spending has historically only developed as a summer resort.

In total, 380 structures were built in preparation for the Olympic Games: coastal and mountain cluster facilities, transport, energy and hotel infrastructure.

For the Olympics, 11 sports facilities with a total capacity of 200 thousand spectator seats were built. Among them are the Fisht stadium, the Iceberg Ice Palace, the Big and Small ice hockey arenas, the Adler Arena speed skating stadium, the Laura biathlon complex, the Sanki bobsleigh track, a snowboard center and many others. . The largest facility of the 2014 Games was "" - a single complex for holding competitions in alpine skiing disciplines.

The 2014 Winter Olympics flame was lit from a parabolic mirror in Ancient Olympia, Greece on September 29, 2013 by actress Ino Menegaki, who played the role of the high priestess of the goddess Hera. The solemn ritual marked the beginning of the Olympic torch relay, which passed through 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 it was lit on October 7.

The Russian Olympic torch relay Sochi 2014 became the longest in the history of the Winter Games. The flame traveled to 2,900 settlements in all 83 federal subjects, and 14,000 torchbearers took part in the relay.
For the first time in the history of the Olympic movement, the fire traveled into space. In addition, the Olympic flame traveled to Avacha Sopka, an active volcano, and to the bottom of Lake Baikal, the deepest lake in the world. The fire also 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 Let Pobedy.

On February 7, 2014 at 20:14 Moscow time, the Olympic Games took place at the Fisht stadium. The opening ceremony reminded viewers around the world that Russia is a country with a rich culture. The basis of the show was.

At the end of the ceremony, the Olympic flame was lit. Using a torch that had been in space, it was lit by three-time Olympic champions Vladislav Tretyak and Irina Rodnina. The opening ceremony was crowned by.

3.5 thousand people took part in the parade of athletes.

Television audience of the opening ceremony of the Olympics in Sochi.

2,876 athletes representing 88 countries took part in the Sochi Games. The strongest athletes were identified - Olympic champions and competition winners - 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.

The Russian Olympic team included 241 athletes.

Russian athletes took part in 95 of the 98 events of the Games program (with the exception of the women's snowboard disciplines of halfpipe, slopestyle and snowboard cross).

The Russian team completed the Winter Olympics in Sochi, taking first place in the medal standings and updating national records for gold and the total number of medals at the White Games. The Russian team has 13 gold, 11 silver and 9 bronze.

Olympic medals at the Games in Sochi were won by representatives of 26 countries, and gold medals by representatives of 21 countries.

On February 23, 2014, the closing ceremony of the XXII Olympic Winter Games in Sochi took place at the Fisht stadium. The ceremony was divided into several conventional parts that 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 out of the Olympic flame. The authors of the ceremony gave this honor to one of the Olympic mascots - a huge white bear cub. An animatronic representing a bear on stage blew out the fire in the stadium, while extinguishing it in a huge torch bowl outside the Fisht. Part of the episode was accompanied by the song “Goodbye, Moscow” by Alexandra Pakhmutova and Nikolai Dobronravov as a memory of the 1980 Summer Games in Moscow, to which the symbol of those Games - a brown Olympic bear cub - flew away from the Luzhniki stadium. The torch itself is from Nikita Mikhalkov’s cult film “One among strangers, a stranger among one’s own.”

According to the IOC, the Winter Olympic Games in Sochi generated 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 based on information from RIA Novosti and open sources

On May 30, 2013, the medals of the Winter Olympic Games in Sochi were presented in St. Petersburg. On the front side of the medal were the Olympic rings, on the back - the name of the competition in English and the emblem of the Sochi Games. Depending on the value, the weight of Olympic medals varied from 460 to 531 grams. In total, about 1300 pieces were produced.

In total, a record 1.5 trillion rubles in the history of the games were spent on preparing Sochi for the Olympics, which then corresponded to $51 billion. Of this, the federal budget spent 100 billion rubles on the construction of sports facilities and over 400 billion rubles on the infrastructure of Sochi. Investments attracted 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 throughout Russia, and the total number of jobs in the country's economy created or supported by the Olympic project amounted to 560 thousand.
In total, preparations for the Olympics came from many regions.

Much of the Olympic spending has historically only developed as a summer resort.

In total, 380 structures were built in preparation for the Olympic Games: coastal and mountain cluster facilities, transport, energy and hotel infrastructure.

For the Olympics, 11 sports facilities with a total capacity of 200 thousand spectator seats were built. Among them are the Fisht stadium, the Iceberg Ice Palace, the Big and Small ice hockey arenas, the Adler Arena speed skating stadium, the Laura biathlon complex, the Sanki bobsleigh track, a snowboard center and many others. . The largest facility of the 2014 Games was "" - a single complex for holding competitions in alpine skiing disciplines.

The 2014 Winter Olympics flame was lit from a parabolic mirror in Ancient Olympia, Greece on September 29, 2013 by actress Ino Menegaki, who played the role of the high priestess of the goddess Hera. The solemn ritual marked the beginning of the Olympic torch relay, which passed through 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 it was lit on October 7.

The Russian Olympic torch relay Sochi 2014 became the longest in the history of the Winter Games. The flame traveled to 2,900 settlements in all 83 federal subjects, and 14,000 torchbearers took part in the relay.
For the first time in the history of the Olympic movement, the fire traveled into space. In addition, the Olympic flame traveled to Avacha Sopka, an active volcano, and to the bottom of Lake Baikal, the deepest lake in the world. The fire also 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 Let Pobedy.

On February 7, 2014 at 20:14 Moscow time, the Olympic Games took place at the Fisht stadium. The opening ceremony reminded viewers around the world that Russia is a country with a rich culture. The basis of the show was.

At the end of the ceremony, the Olympic flame was lit. Using a torch that had been in space, it was lit by three-time Olympic champions Vladislav Tretyak and Irina Rodnina. The opening ceremony was crowned by.

3.5 thousand people took part in the parade of athletes.

Television audience of the opening ceremony of the Olympics in Sochi.

2,876 athletes representing 88 countries took part in the Sochi Games. The strongest athletes were identified - Olympic champions and competition winners - 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.

The Russian Olympic team included 241 athletes.

Russian athletes took part in 95 of the 98 events of the Games program (with the exception of the women's snowboard disciplines of halfpipe, slopestyle and snowboard cross).

The Russian team completed the Winter Olympics in Sochi, taking first place in the medal standings and updating national records for gold and the total number of medals at the White Games. The Russian team has 13 gold, 11 silver and 9 bronze.

Olympic medals at the Games in Sochi were won by representatives of 26 countries, and gold medals by representatives of 21 countries.

On February 23, 2014, the closing ceremony of the XXII Olympic Winter Games in Sochi took place at the Fisht stadium. The ceremony was divided into several conventional parts that 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 out of the Olympic flame. The authors of the ceremony gave this honor to one of the Olympic mascots - a huge white bear cub. An animatronic representing a bear on stage blew out the fire in the stadium, while extinguishing it in a huge torch bowl outside the Fisht. Part of the episode was accompanied by the song “Goodbye, Moscow” by Alexandra Pakhmutova and Nikolai Dobronravov as a memory of the 1980 Summer Games in Moscow, to which the symbol of those Games - a brown Olympic bear cub - flew away from the Luzhniki stadium. The torch itself is from Nikita Mikhalkov’s cult film “One among strangers, a stranger among one’s own.”

According to the IOC, the Winter Olympic Games in Sochi generated 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 based on information from RIA Novosti and open sources