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A schedule of the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympic Games
Detailed schedule for all winter sports including Snowboarding, Bobsleigh, Curling, Ice Skating, Skeleton, Skiing, Ice Hockey etc.
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Sochi sport-by-sport explained
Get to know your Nordic combined skiing from your biathlon, your snowboard parallel slalom from your luge.
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NBC News Reporter: I Was Hacked 'Almost Immediately' In Sochi
Being a reporter at the Sochi Olympic Games just got even worse. NBC News' Richard Engel said that upon arriving in Russia to cover the upcoming event, he was hacked "almost immediately" -- and privacy is not something visitors should expect to have.
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Snowboarder Shaun White Withdraws From Slopestyle Event
The sport's biggest star will stilSnowboarder Shaun White has announced that he is dropping out of the slopestyle event at the Sochi Olympics. The event is scheduled to start Thursday. White will still compete in halfpipe, his usual sport, but he says Sochi's slopestyle course, with its larger-than-usual jumps, is too risky for him.
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Sochi Olympics Will Cost More Than Every Other Winter Olympics Combined
Sochi’s estimated $51 billion price tag is $10 billion higher than the next most-expensive Games, the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. On a per event basis, Sochi will spend five times more than the Chinese did in 2008. Take Summer Games out of the equation, and Sochi looks even worse: according to research from a Dutch newspaper, Sochi’s cost will total more than every previous Winter Olympics combined
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Racing to Save the Stray Dogs of Sochi
A Russian billionaire has donated money for a shelter in a bid to save some of the hundreds of stray dogs that are being killed in preparation for the Sochi Olympic Games.
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Sochi Official: Our Shower Surveillance Footage Says Hotels Are Fine
By now, you've surely heard the harrowing stories about how the Sochi Olympic village is a hellscape of stray dogs, weird toilets, and unfinished accommodations. Well, according to the Russian official in charge, everything's cool! And he has the surreptitious surveillance footage to prove it.
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Russian Officials Fire Back at Olympic Critics
"We have surveillance video from the hotels that shows people turn on the shower, direct the nozzle at the wall and then leave the room for the whole day," he said...
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The Man Behind the Opening Ceremony for the Sochi Games
The premier visual stylist of the Putin era has been given the highest-profile assignment of his career: the Olympics opening ceremony.
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8 Viral Sochi Olympics Photos That Are Total Lies
Thousands of images are pouring out of Sochi in the lead-up to the Olympics. And things don't look great. There are unfinished buildings, a lack of winter weather, and an abundance of trash. But don't believe every image you see. Like so much of what gets passed on social media these days, a lot of them aren't exactly what they claim.
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10 Photographs of the 1980 Moscow Olympics
As the Olympics open in Sochi, we look back at the last time Russia hosted the world’s top athletes.
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Alleged hijacker attempts to divert Turkish airplane to Sochi
A Ukrainian citizen claiming to have smuggled a bomb aboard an Istanbul-bound plane belonging to Turkish carrier Pegasus Airlines was apprehended Friday after attempting to divert it to Sochi, Russia, where the Winter Olympics are kicking off, a Turkish official said.
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Explained: How Big Is Sochi's Terrorism Problem?
Just how big is Sochi's terrorism problem? "It would be safer if we had the Olympics in North Korea. At least they don't have an active terrorist group blowing things up."
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Why Russians Aren't Smiling at You in Sochi
The first rule about smiling at Russians is you do not smile at Russians.
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Turkish authorities arrest man suspected of trying to hijack plane to Sochi
Turkish security forces on Friday detained a Ukrainian plane passenger suspected of making a bomb threat in an attempt to hijack a flight to Sochi, Russia, where the Winter Olympics were opening under tight security.
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A Pussy Riot homage? Alexey Sobolev's Olympics board raises questions
Russian snowboarder Alexey Sobolev crashed near the end of his second run at Thursday morning's slopestyle qualification round at Rosa Khutor Extreme Park. However, not all of the questions from reporters afterward were about his performance. After his run, he held up his board in the finish area, waiting for his scores, and quite visible to the TV cameras was a design on his snowboard of a knife-wielding woman wearing a ski mask
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BP (British Petroleum) and Audi announcing a new partnership at the olympics?
Sure looks like it.. or wait.
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Uzbekistan's Plan to Genetically Groom Olympic Athletes Isn't Going to Work
In a few years, we'll look back at the Sochi Olympics as the last one where being chosen as an Olympic athlete was something involving lots of athleticism, a bit of luck, and, yes, sometimes a bit of politics. Because at least one country, Uzbekistan, has announced that they’re going to start genetically screening children in order to groom them as Olympic athletes.
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2014 Winter Olympics Opening Ceremony in Sochi
The Opening Ceremony kicked off the start of the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia today. The torch was light after a dazzling display of performance and fireworks.
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NBC Edits Out IOC Anti-Discrimination Statement From Opening Ceremony
Russia's anti-gay laws have been a major focus in the lead-up to the Olympic Winter Games in Sochi, and during his address at today's opening ceremony IOC president Thomas Bach made a strong statement against "any form of discrimination" and in favor of tolerance. Viewers worldwide heard the statement; NBC viewers in the U.S. did not, because the network edited it out.
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