REPLAY: Salt Lake City 2002 Winter Games

Around the Rings was on the scene for the Salt Lake City 2002 Winter Games. Two years from now the Sochi 2014 Winter Games will take place. Will you be there?

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Op Ed: Road to 2014 Olympics Tests Driving Skill and Nerve

(ATR) The twisting and turning road to the mountain venues in Sochi for the 2014 Winter Olympics can be a dangerous route to travel. It also may be a perfect symbol of the perils still ahead for these first Winter Games in Russia. Forty km of bends in the road and two-lane tunnels make the [...]

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President Dmitry Medvedev: Building up Winter Games for Sochi 2014

Opening Remarks at Meeting of the Council for the Development of Physical Culture and Sport, Excellence in Sports, Preparation and Organisation of the 2014 Sochi XXII Winter Olympics and XI Paralympics and the 2013 XXVII World Student Games in Kazan A month has gone by since the Vancouver Olympics came to a close. This is [...]

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“Best Ever” Paralympics, Olympics May Break Even

The 2010 Winter Paralympics win the title of “best ever” as the flame goes out one last time in Vancouver and Whistler, hosts as well of the Winter Olympics held in February. As the Winter Paralympics closed Sunday after 10 days, International Paralympic Committee president Philip Craven declared the experience as the “the best ever [...]

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The View from Here: London & Sochi Lessons

Sochi and London organizers tell us it’s too early to glean lessons from the experience of the Vancouver Olympics, but we have some ideas for them to think about. Don’t underestimate. For the past week, VANOC has blamed some glitches on underestimates. Whether the wave of Vancouverites eager to see the Olympic cauldron or the [...]

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