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The 2014 Winter Olympics, officially called the XXII Olympic Winter Games (French: Les XXIIes Jeux olympiques d'hiver) (Russian: XXII Олимпийские зимние игры, tr. XXII Olimpiyskiye zimniye igry) and commonly known as Sochi 2014, were a major international multi-sport event held from February 7 to February 23, 2014 in Sochi, Krasnodar Krai, Russia, with opening rounds in certain events held on the eve of the opening ceremony, 6 February 2014. Both the Olympics and 2014 Winter Paralympics were organized by the Sochi Organizing Committee (SOOC). Sochi was selected as the host city in July 2007, during the 119th IOC Session held in Guatemala City. It was the first Olympics in Russia since the breakup of the Soviet Union in 1991. The Soviet Union was the host nation for the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow.
A total of 98 events in 15 winter sport disciplines were held during the Games. A number of new competitions—a total of 12 accounting for gender—were held during the Games, including biathlon mixed relay, women's ski jumping, mixed-team figure skating, mixed-team luge, half-pipe skiing, ski and snowboard slopestyle, and snowboard parallel slalom. The events were held around two clusters of new venues: an Olympic Park constructed in Sochi's Imeretinsky Valley on the coast of the Black Sea, with Fisht Olympic Stadium, and the Games' indoor venues located within walking distance, and snow events in the resort settlement of Krasnaya Polyana.
The Winter Olympic Games (French: Jeux olympiques d'hiver) is a major international sporting event that occurs once every four years. Unlike the Summer Olympics, the Winter Olympics feature sports practiced on snow and ice. The first Winter Olympics, the 1924 Winter Olympics, was held in Chamonix, France. The original five sports (broken into nine disciplines) were bobsleigh, curling, ice hockey, Nordic skiing (consisting of the disciplines military patrol,cross-country skiing, Nordic combined, and ski jumping), and skating (consisting of the disciplines figure skating and speed skating). The Games were held every four years from 1924 until 1936, after which they were interrupted by World War II. The Olympics resumed in 1948 and was again held every four years. Until 1992, the Winter and Summer Olympic Games were held in the same years, but in accordance with a 1986 decision by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to place the Summer and Winter Games on separate four-year cycles in alternating even-numbered years, the next Winter Olympics after 1992 was in 1994.
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The modern Olympic Games or Olympics (French: Jeux olympiques) are the leading international sporting event featuring summer and winter sports competitions in which thousands of athletes from around the world participate in a variety of competitions. The Olympic Games are considered to be the world's foremost sports competition with more than 200 nations participating. The Olympic Games are held every four years, with the Summer and Winter Games alternating by occurring every four years but two years apart.
Their creation was inspired by the ancient Olympic Games, which were held in Olympia, Greece, from the 8th century BC to the 4th century AD. Baron Pierre de Coubertin founded the International Olympic Committee (IOC) in 1894. The IOC is the governing body of the Olympic Movement, with the Olympic Charter defining its structure and authority.
The evolution of the Olympic Movement during the 20th and 21st centuries has resulted in several changes to the Olympic Games. Some of these adjustments include the creation of the Winter Olympic Games for ice and winter sports, the Paralympic Games for athletes with a disability, and the Youth Olympic Games for teenage athletes. The IOC has had to adapt to a variety of economic, political, and technological advancements. As a result, the Olympics has shifted away from pure amateurism, as envisioned by Coubertin, to allowing participation of professional athletes. The growing importance of mass media created the issue of corporate sponsorship and commercialization of the Games. World wars led to the cancellation of the 1916, 1940, and 1944 Games. Large boycotts during the Cold War limited participation in the 1980 and 1984 Games.
Mystery meat navigation (also known as MMN) is a disparaging term coined in 1998 by Vincent Flanders, author and designer of the website Web Pages That Suck, to describe a web page where the destination of the link is not visible until the user points their cursor at it. Such interfaces lack a user-centered design, emphasizing aesthetic appearance, white space, and the concealment of relevant information over basic practicality and functionality.
The epithet "mystery meat" refers to the meat products often served in American public school cafeterias whose forms have been so thoroughly reprocessed that their exact types can no longer be identified by their appearances: like them, the methods of MMN are clear to the producer but baffling to the consumer.
Flanders originally and temporarily described the phenomenon as Saturnic navigation in reference to the Saturn Corporation, whose company website epitomized this phenomenon. Flanders writes, "The typical form of MMN is represented by menus composed of unrevealing icons that are replaced with explicative text only when the mouse cursor hovers over them".
Click here for all Olympic highlights and let the Games never end: http://go.olympic.org/watch?p=yt&teaser;=b The full length Opening Ceremony of the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympic Games is now available on the official Olympic YouTube channel. Look back on this incredible celebration that kicked off an amazing Winter Games in Sochi. Subscribe to the Olympic YouTube channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/olympic?sub_confirmation=1 Discover more about Sochi 2014: http://www.olympic.org/sochi-2014-winter-olympics
Click here for all Olympic highlights and let the Games never end: http://go.olympic.org/watch?p=yt&teaser;=b Daily Report - Highlights of the Men's Moguls Finals from the Rosa Khutor Extreme Park as Canada's Alex Bilodeau wins the gold medal at the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympic Games. Medal Winners: Gold: Alex Bilodeau (CAN) Silver: Mikael Kingsbury (CAN) Bronze: Alexandr Smyshlyaev (RUS) Subscribe to the Olympic YouTube channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/olympic?sub_confirmation=1 Discover more about Sochi 2014: http://www.olympic.org/sochi-2014-winter-olympics
1.Warm-Up 2.Julia Lipnitskaia (RUS) (02:47) 3.Carolina Kostner (ITA) (10:44) 4.Adelina Sotnikova (RUS) (18:50) 5.Gracie Gold (USA) (27:31) 6.Ashley Wagner (USA) (35:44) 7.Yuna Kim (KOR) (44:06)
Click here for all Olympic highlights and let the Games never end: http://go.olympic.org/watch?p=yt&teaser;=b Daily Report - Highlights from the Sanki Sliding Centre of the final two heats of the Women's Bobsleigh as Kaillie Humphries and Heather Moyse win gold for Canada at the Sochi 2014 Olympic Games. Medal Winners: Gold: Kaillie Humphries & Heather Moyse (CAN) Silver: Elena Meyers & Lauryn Williams (USA) Bronze: Jamie Greubel & Aja Evans(USA) Subscribe to the Olympic YouTube channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/olympic?sub_confirmation=1 Discover more about Sochi 2014: http://www.olympic.org/sochi-2014-winter-olympics
Click here for all Olympic highlights and let the Games never end: http://go.olympic.org/watch?p=yt&teaser;=b A retrospective look at some of the sensational moments from the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympic Games as champions are crowned and Olympic dreams realised. Music: "Born to Fly" by SeaWaves (Planet of Sound remix) Subscribe to the Olympic YouTube channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/olympic?sub_confirmation=1 Discover more about Sochi 2014: http://www.olympic.org/sochi-2014-winter-olympics
Don't miss out on everything Olympic! Click here for all highlights, behind-the-scenes and more! http://go.olympic.org/watch?p=yt&teaser;=a Relive the Free Dance that secured the gold medals for the USA's Meryl Davis and Charlier White in the Ice Dancing event at the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympic Games - Full performance. Subscribe to the Olympic YouTube channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/olympic?sub_confirmation=1 Discover more about Sochi 2014: http://www.olympic.org/sochi-2014-winter-olympics
Click here for all Olympic highlights and let the Games never end: http://go.olympic.org/watch?p=yt&teaser;=b Full coverage of the final of the Men's Ice Hockey tournament as Sweden take on Canada in the gold medal match at the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympic Games. Final Score: Sweden 0 v 3 Canada Subscribe to the Olympic YouTube channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/olympic?sub_confirmation=1 Discover more about Sochi 2014: http://www.olympic.org/sochi-2014-winter-olympics
- Group 1 - 1.Evgeny Plushenko (RUS) 2.Jeremy Abbott (USA) (07:20) - Group 2 - 3.Warm-Up (14:18) 4.Peter Liebers (GER) (19:02) 5.Yan Han (CHN) (25:54) 6.Florent Amodio (FRA) (32:01) 7.Patrick Chan (CAN) (38:42) 8.Yuzuru Hanyu (JPN) (44:56)
Don't miss out on everything Olympic! Click here for all highlights, behind-the-scenes and more! http://go.olympic.org/watch?p=yt&teaser;=a 23rd of February 2014 the closing ceremony of the Sochi Winter Olympics Games, now available in full as part of the #Sochi365 celebrations on the Olympic YouTube channel. Subscribe to the official Olympic channel here: http://bit.ly/1dn6AV5 Find more about the Olympic Games at http://www.olympic.org/olympic-games Follow your favourite athletes on the Olympic Athletes Hub: http://hub.olympic.org/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/winterolympics The 2014 Winter Olympic Games takes place in Sochi, Russia from 7th-23rd February 2014. Live across the BBC on BBC Two, Radio 5 live and online.
In honor of the Sochi 2014 Olympics, let us remember Shaun White's greatest save ever.
This video shows the third area of the Legends Showdown in Mario & Sonic at the 2014 Olympic Winter Games. Mario & Sonic Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLYpDU5ElRBfkfec76x7HoSkc3IGypWVW9
Mario and Sonic at the Sochi 2014 Olympic Winter Games Legends Showdown Gameplay Part 3 Event 3. Story mode playthrough Area 3 in Mario and Sonic at the Sochi 2014 Olympic Winter Games. Playable characters are Daisy, Luigi, Vector and Shadow. All Dream Events in walkthrough part 3 are 4-man Bobsleigh, Snowball Scrimmage, Curling, Snow Day Street Hockey and Snowboard Parallel Giant Slalom. Below is a playlist with all of my Mario & Sonic at the Sochi 2014 Olympic Winter Games gameplay videos Mario and Sonic at the Sochi 2014 Olympic Winter Games Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLN_ilAf6ExtKNRP41CEVxTDFvMP3wRogw About the game: Developer: Sega Sports R&D; Publisher: Nintendo Platform: Nintendo Wii U