Olympic winter games in sochi 2014

Sotchi rapport officiel Parallel title. Checking of available copies Loading enrichments What do you think of this resource? Give us your opinion. Confirm Cancel. Export in progress. Change your review. Remove my review Confirm Cancel. Place no. With the help of polar explorers who found him, he was able to use his energy to develop his athletic talent. During his time with the polar researchers, he was able to learn subjects such as computing, engineering, and astronomy to help with arctic research.

The official mascots of the Paralympic Games in were the Ray of Light and Snowflake, who represented the sun and snow in the Arctic and Siberian regions. As the opposites to make up the Siberian environment, the two represent the flora and fauna of the region. The venues of Sochi were mostly divided into two clusters: the ice events mostly took part in Sochi, while the snow events took place in the Krasnaya Polyana Valley.

The venues in Sochi were newly constructed for the Olympic Games, and were all on walking distance to create a compact environment for anyone involved in the event. Sochi would be the biggest Winter Olympic Games to date with 98 medal events. Twelve events were added to the Olympic program in Sochi to promote gender equality and collaboration between the different genders. This resulted in the introduction of mixed team events in figure skating , biathlon , and luge.

For the first time ever, women were also allowed to compete in ski jumping , making Nordic Combined the only discipline at the Winter Olympic Games with only events for a single gender. The freestyle skiing and snowboarding disciplines were expanded, with the men's and women's slopestyle being added in snowboarding, and the same events being added in freestyle skiing, for both men and women. The snowboarding discipline was also enriched by the Olympic introduction of parallel slalom for men and women , while freestyle skiing discipline now also featured the men's and women's ski halfpipe.

Twenty-six nations had won at least one medal, just like in Vancouver four years prior, despite the introduction of twelve medal events at the Winter Olympic Games. For the second time in a row, the host nation of the event finished on top of the medal table, after Canada topped the medal table in The last time Russia had lead the medal standings had been at Lillehammer , right after the dissolution of the Soviet Union. Norway had won the same number of gold medals with 11, but had only won five silver medals, compared to the Russians' nine.

Slovenia won its first gold medal ever at the Winter Olympic Games, only followed a few days later by its second. Out of 98 medal events, eight of them resulted in podium sweeps from a single nation, of which half by the Netherlands.

In speed skating, the country won all three medals in the men's metre , metre , and metre , as well as the women's metre. Meanwhile, the United States had dominated the podium in the men's ski slopestyle , a feat later repeated by the French ski crossers. On the last few days of competition, the medals of the mass start competitions in cross-country skiing were swept by Norway for the women and Russia for the men. Ireen Wust was the only athlete to win five Olympic medals 2 gold, 3 silver in , winning five of 23 medals won by the Netherlands in speed skating.

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Chrome Safari Continue. Coverage of both Men's singles runs 1 and 2 and Women's singles runs 3 and 4. Coverage of the four-man bobsleigh competition held at the Sliding Center Sanki near Krasnaya Polyana. See also TV Schedule. Getting Started Contributor Zone ». Top Gap. See more gaps ». Add episode.