What We Learned From The XXII Olympic Winter Games
SOCHI
The beginning of Sochi
Photo credit: C. Harrison via NBC
By: C. Harrison/March 5, 2014
New York, What we learn from Sochi, was a lot about snow-boarding and I have to say hats off to those high flying snow boarders and great job; because some of us could not even attempted what these young people did and are doing.
The games began February 7, 2014 and ended February 23, 2014. Sochi gave us 17-days of winter games and closed on record with the most expensive Olympics ever. Russia spent $51, billion dollars in investment on Sochi, $40, billion more than the Beijing Olympic. And according to news reports “The Russian bag of Sochi’s gold was the biggest ever hauled by a non Soviet team,” CBS.
In Sochi the IOC conducted a record 2, 631 tests, nearly 200 more than originally planned. Six competitors got caught in what was carried out as the most extensive anti-drug program in Winter Olympics history. One article I saw even noted that Sochi had a activist musical called Passy Riot, this also in the face of the games Russia kept up its anti-gay policies. The entire Olympic park took the Russians seven-years to build. The Olympics motto was: Hot Cool Yours.
88 nations took part in the Olympics, 2, 873 athletes took part and there were 98 events. This was the first Olympics stadium in Russia, where Sochi spurred up its telecommunication, electric power and transportation infrastructure of the city to make it all happen.
This was the first Olympics in Russia since the breakup of the Soviet Union in 1991. The next Winter Games is in 2018. The games were brought to us by NBC Universal. The end was as follows–
The end of the Games
