Sochi fallout: Who will pay the price when Winter Olympics end?
Fp Archives • 11 years agoThe cost of staging the games and building the infrastructure around it is widely expected to come to $51 billion, but an opposition report last year suggested about $30 billion of this had been stolen or wasted.
Some Ukraine athletes leave Sochi Games: IOC
Fp Archives • 11 years agoAt least 26 people have died in recent days as protests spread across Ukraine.
Ukraine crisis felt among athletes at Sochi Olympics
Fp Archives • 11 years agoThe conflict raging little more than 600 miles from Sochi couldn't help but intrude into the games, and not just because 43 athletes from Ukraine are competing here.
Sochi Winter Olympics global broadcast output dwarfs Vancouver
Fp Archives • 11 years agoLumme said the Games had reached an estimated viewership of around 500 million people worldwide, with 230 digital destinations on top of traditional broadcasters.
Winter Olympics: Himanshu finishes 72nd in giant slalom event
Fp Archives • 11 years ago20-year-old Himanshu, in his first Winter Olympics, clocked a combined timing of 3 minutes 37.55 seconds over two races to finish last among those who completed the race.
Pussy Riot members detained in Sochi by Russian police
Fp Archives • 11 years agoTolokonnikova, 24, and Alyokhina, 25, had recently returned to Russia after a tour through Europe and the United States following their release from prison in December.
India completes Olympic return with Sochi flag raising
Fp Archives • 11 years agoThe IOC lifted the ban on Feb. 11 following fresh elections last week.
Sochi Olympics: India's Nadeem Iqbal finishes 85th in men's 15k
Fp Archives • 11 years agoIqbal was 16 minute 42.8 seconds behind gold medal winner Dario Cologna of Switzerland, who clocked 38 minute 29.7 seconds.
Nadeem becomes 1st soldier from J&K to qualify for main event in Sochi
Fp Archives • 11 years agoAn army spokesman said Iqbal, who hails from a village in Rajouri district, qualified for the main event of 15-Km Nordic Free Style event.
Sochi Olympics: Indian Himanshu Thakur gets skiing gear just in time
Fp Archives • 11 years ago“Two days after (the reinstatement), they gave us money and now I have equipment,” Thakur said during a training session at Rosa Khutor.