No racism in Sochi, mayor insists after racism row at parade SOCHI, Russia (AP) — The mayor of the Russian city of Sochi's has promised football fans there is no racism in the 2018 World Cup host city after FIFA denounced a parade featuring

FIFA says blackface in Sochi parade was 'inappropriate' MOSCOW (AP) — FIFA says it was "inappropriate" for people in blackface apparently representing Cameroon's national soccer team to march in a parade in Sochi. Two peo

Russian tycoon rallies Kremlin to build Black-Sea ski destination Putin’s dream of turning Sochi into a rival for the Alps has gotten a boost.

Russia dismisses Sochi doping allegations as 'speculation' MOSCOW (AP) -- Accusations that four Russian gold-medal winners at the Sochi Olympics used performance-enhancing drugs are just ''speculation,'' Russian Sports Minister Vitaly Mutko said Saturday.

Sochi or bust FEBRUARY 7th sees the opening of the winter Olympics in Sochi on the Black Sea. The message of the games is simple: “Russia is back”. Sochi was planned as a...

One Year On, Sochi Suffers the Post-Olympic Blues A year after the Winter Games, Sochi’s new Krasnaya Polyana ski resort is having its first full season—just as Russia’s oil-dependent economy heads for a wipeout.

Photos: Sochi, Russia, a Year After the Games Common to the postscript of every Olympics, and especially the very expensive Games in Sochi, Russia, is the difficult task of moving beyond past glories and recouping the investment.

The Sochi Olympics Were Even More Of A Boondoggle Than You thought The 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia, were a scam from the very start. Sochi is a resort city with mild weather that had nothing close to the infrastructure necessary to host the Olympics, yet the initial budget was only $12 billion dollars. In Read more ... comparison, the budget for the 2010 Winter Olympics—held in the much more developed Vancouver, Canada, whose metro area is seven times bigger than Sochi—was $8 billion. The real final cost of everything, as documented in this exhaustive Businessweek piece? $51 billion.

Oligarchs unload Sochi Olympics assets to recoup investment SOCHI, Russia (AP) — The ski jump sits shrouded in mist, its coat of snow undisturbed by any athletes hurtling down the ramp to take off into the air. A year ago, the jump bustled with activity at the Sochi Olympics as…

Oligarchs unload Sochi Olympics assets to recoup investment SOCHI, Russia (AP) — The ski jump sits shrouded in mist, its coat of snow undisturbed by any athletes hurtling down the ramp to take off into the air. A year ago, the jump bustled with activity at the Sochi Olympics as…