On February 7, 2014, the Winter Olympic Games will open in Sochi. The upcoming Olympics will mark a record number of medals: 98 sets of awards will be drawn. The competition program includes a number of new disciplines. Sports lovers will find a bright, eventful show.
What is included in the 2014 Olympics program
Olympians in Sochi will compete for medals in 7 sports: biathlon, bobsled (which also includes skeleton), ice hockey, curling, luge, speed skating (speed skating, short track, figure skating), skiing (cross-country skiing, alpine skiing, ski jumping, snowboarding, freestyle).
Considering the great interest of spectators in one of the brightest and most spectacular sports - ice hockey, the NHL leadership went to meet the International Olympic Committee and agreed to take a break in the winter season so that NHL players could take part in matches for their Olympic teams.
Venue of the competition
The Olympians will compete in two places: directly within the borders of Sochi and outside, about 40 kilometers from the city. These places have received official names: "coastal cluster" and "mountain cluster".
The coastal cluster includes the Olympic Park, where all the ice arenas are located, as well as the new Fisht stadium, designed for 40 thousand spectators. In addition to this stadium, there is the Bolshoi Ice Palace, the Puck Ice Arena, the Iceberg Winter Sports Palace, the Adler Arena and the Ice Cube, where curling competitions will take place. All these sports facilities are located so close to each other that they can be considered within walking distance. In this respect, the Sochi Olympics can be considered unique.
Open-air competitions will be held in the mountain cluster located on the territory of the Krasnaya Polyana ski resort. Here medals in biathlon, skiing, luge and bobsleigh will be competed. This cluster includes 5 modern complexes that meet the highest requirements. The Laura complex will host biathletes and cross-country skiing competitions, the Russkiye Gorki will host ski jumping, the Sanki complex will host sledges and bobsledders, and visitors to the Rosa Khutor complex will see alpine skiers' competitions. There is also a separate Extreme Park complex on the territory of Rosa Khutor, where freestyle and snowboard competitions will be held.
