Winter Olympics 2014 posts
Getty Images Today in 1924, the first Winter Olympics commenced at Chamonix-Mont-Blanc in the French Alps. That year, the Swiss Olympic Team took home gold in the bobsled event. Here's the team 90 years later at the 2014 Sochi Games in Facebook 360. Who's ready f Read more ... or PyeongChang 2018?
Explore more photos of the first Winter Olympics here: http://gtty.im/2jx449w
101 months ago
AP A look ahead to the 2018 Winter Games in Pyeongchang, South Korea, the 2020 Tokyo Summer Olympics and the 2022 Beijing Winter Games. Find AP’s full Olympics coverage at http://summergames.ap.org/
After Rio, Olympics headed for Asian venues seen as safe
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BEIJING (AP) — For the Olympics, it's so-long Rio, hello Asia. The next three Olympics are headed for relatively calmer ports of call in South Korea, Japan and China following the organizational drama surrounding the 2014…
106 months ago
MTV Are the Winter Olympics more entertaining because there's more at stake?
The Winter Olympics Are Better Than The Summer Olympics Because Of The Constant Threat Of Death
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Swimming? Gymnastics? Child's play.
106 months ago
Daily Mail Sport The Russian government controlled and oversaw widespread doping during the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics, WADA finds.
107 months ago
ABC News Russia’s sports minister says allegations that his country conducted a massive cloak-and-dagger operation at the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics were "impossible" and need to be checked.
109 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.
115 months ago
WSJ Live Take a look at the costs behind the Winter Olympics http://on.wsj.com/1eOD41T
The Costs Behind the Winter Olympics
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Beijing won the contest to host the Winter Olympics in 2022, becoming the first city to stage both the summer and winter games. The WSJ's Eva Tam breaks down the costs of hosting the Games. (Photo: Associated Press)
119 months ago
Deadspin The first city to host both the Summer and Winter Olympics.
Beijing Wins 2022 Winter Olympics
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The Olympics no one wanted have found a home. The 2022 Winter Games will be held in Beijing, China, which was selected in a surprisingly tight vote over Almaty, Kazakhstan. It was a short list of finalists because every other candidate city withdrew Read more ... their bids, now that most everyone realizes the Olympics are a civic and economic nightmare.http://deadspin.com/nobody-wants-t... Nobody Wants To Host The 2022 Olympics Nobody Wants To Host The 2022 Olympics Nobody Wants To Host The 2022 Olympics The next Olympics to be awarded, a little more than a year from now, will be the 2022 Winter Games. … Read more Read more
119 months ago
Reuters And the 2022 Winter Olympics will be held in... Beijing. http://reut.rs/1SnGwmI
Beijing awarded 2022 Winter Olympics
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Beijing was chosen by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to host the 2022 Winter Olympics on Friday, becoming the first city to be awarded both the summer and winter Games.The Chinese capital
119 months ago
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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.
125 months ago