Sochi olympics posts
60 Minutes Four Russian gold medal winners in the Sochi Winter Olympics were using steroids, reveals a Russian whistleblower. Watch Sunday's 60 Minutes
Russian doping at Sochi Winter Olympics exposed
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Four Russian gold medal winners in the Sochi Winter Olympics were using steroids Russian whistleblower tells 60 Minutes
119 months ago
Yahoo News The Moscow anti-doping lab operated on-site testing facilities at the Sochi Olympics and provided staff, although it was under the supervision of the International Olympic Committee.
Russia dismisses Sochi doping allegations as 'speculation'
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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.
119 months ago
60 Minutes Four Russian gold medal winners in the Sochi Winter Olympics were using steroids Russian whistleblower tells 60 Minutes
119 months ago
Sports Illustrated A Russian counter-terrorism official said that authorities thwarted a suicide bombing plot ahead of the 2014 Olympics in Sochi.
124 months ago
Los Angeles Times Sports Russia officials say suicide bombers tried to target the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia
Suicide bombers targeted 2014 Sochi Olympics, Russian official says
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Female suicide bombers planning to smuggle explosives aboard an airplane in hand cream were thwarted on the eve of the 2014 Sochi Olympics , a top Russian official said.
124 months ago
The Economist Moscow held its Olympics closing ceremony on this day in 1980. Was Sochi any different? http://econ.st/1UhNveq
Sochi or bust
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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...
128 months ago
The New York Times - Lens - Photography A year after the Sochi Olympics, the flags of the competing nations continue to flutter in the breeze rolling in from the Black Sea and oversize cuddly mascots still roam the vast expanse of the Olympic Park’s central plaza, the heart of Russia’s Read more ... monumental Olympic effort.
Photos: Sochi, Russia, a Year After the Games
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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.
134 months ago
Deadspin Boondoggle Boondoggle Boondoggle http://deadsp.in/w6q3ErX
The Sochi Olympics Were Even More Of A Boondoggle Than You thought
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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.
134 months ago
AP Sports Oligarchs unload Sochi Olympics assets to recoup investment http://apne.ws/1zROaLz
Oligarchs unload Sochi Olympics assets to recoup investment
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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…
134 months ago
AP Russia had vowed to pay for what became the most expensive Olympics of all time by getting super-rich private investors to take the cost from the state. Instead, as the first anniversary of the Sochi games approaches, at least two of those oligarchs Read more ... are quietly dumping their increasingly toxic assets on the state _ forcing Russian taxpayers to pick up the bill.
Oligarchs unload Sochi Olympics assets to recoup investment
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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…
134 months ago