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World champion ice dancers Christopher Dean and Jayne Torvill of Great Britain are shown during their first workout, a few hours after they arrived for the Winter Olympic Games in Sarajevo
Music
Maurice Ravel’s ‘Boléro’ makes a comeback at Beijing Winter Olympics
Wu Dajing of China, races in his men's 500-meters heat during the short track speedskating competition at the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing
Sports
China is boosting its efforts to nab gold medals at the Olympics
Australia's James Matheson competes in the men's moguls qualifying at Genting Snow Park at the 2022 Winter Olympics in Zhangjiakou, China
Environment
Manufactured snow for the Winter Games could lead to water scarcity, environmentalists say
A man is shown in shadow in front of large sculpture of the Olympic rings.
Sports
Russia banned from Olympics, World Cup and other big events for cheating over doping
People dressed in white carry the Olympic flag instead of the Russian flag.
Global Politics
Russia appeals to IOC for permission to fly flag at Games
Circassian protest on Times Square in 2011.
Culture
The day to remember the ‘forgotten genocide’
Sochi
Global Politics
Ukraine is damaging Russia’s $50 billion Olympic makeover
Children pose for a picture outside of the Sochi Olympic Park.
Arts, Culture & Media
The Sochi Olympics project a happier, friendlier Russia. Locals wish that were true
A copy of Argumenty i Fakty, a weekly newspaper from Moskow, is on sale at a Brighton Beach shop.
Sports
In the Russian-American community of Brighton Beach, the Sochi Olympics are big
"The Sochi Project" is a multimedia endeavor to show the side of Sochi most Olympic tourists don't see. Photographer Robert Hornstra captures various characters from the region like Olga, the manager of strip club in the center of Sochi.
Arts, Culture & Media
These photos show a side of Sochi most Olympic tourists won’t see
Sochi
Sports
The 2014 Olympic Games begin with an image remake for Russia
Paul Varadian
Business, Economics and Jobs
The Olympics are launching small-town Sochi into an international sports-hosting future
Lifestyle & Belief
Are we actually pushing Russia further away by shining such an intense spotlight on its questionable practices?
Lyubov Varicheva teaches English at the Sochi College of Multicultural Education in Russia. She says because of "volunteering" demands on teachers here, her students probably won’t get much in the way of instruction during the Sochi Winter Olympics.
Sports
Many in Sochi are excited to show off their city for the Olympics — but not all
Sochi
Sports
Russia steps away from its Soviet past one cuddly Olympic mascot at a time
Sochi has been struggling to make its public spaces handicapped accessible, including sidewalk markings for the visually impaired. Two weeks before the Olympics, there was still work to be done.
Sports
Sochi says goodbye to its Soviet era and hello to a modern Olympics
Downhill racer (and Sochi Olympics contender) Aksel Lund Svindal of Norway is airborne on his way down the challenging Streif ski track at the Hahnenkamm men's Alpine Skiing World Cup Downhill race in Kitzbuhel, Austria in 2012.
Sports
This is the most challenging downhill ski race in the world
A view of the Bolshoi Ice Palace in the Adler district of Sochi. The building is the hockey venue for the Sochi 2014 Olympics, which begin on February 7th. After the Olympics, it will serve as a sports arena and concert venue.
Sports
There’s a reason the Sochi Olympics are called ‘Putin’s Games’
Digital sunrise
Global Scan
Is this China’s environmental future?
India's Shiva K.P. Keshavan speeds down the track during a training run for the men's singles luge in preparation for the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics in Whistler, British Columbia. Keshavan will be at Sochi, along with two other athletes from India, bu
Sports
India’s Olympic athletes will be at Sochi, but not their country
Russian police check a driver's documents in Sochi December 30, 2013.
Sports
Russia ramps up Olympic security in Sochi, but can they do it with a smile?
Russian police check a driver's documents in Sochi December 30, 2013. The International Olympic Committee has no doubt Russian authorities will be able to provide security at the Winter Olympics, a spokeswoman said on Monday after two bomb blasts killed t
Conflict & Justice
What will it take to secure the Winter Olympics in Sochi?
Billie Jean King
Sports
It’s King versus Putin in ‘Battle of the Sexes’ 2
Global Politics
Vancouver’s openly gay deputy mayor is going to Sochi on a mission
Conflict & Justice
George Takei Backs Petition to Move Sochi Olympics
Sports
Slideshow: Sochi Prepares for the Winter Olympics
The ‘Safety Net’ and Realities of Poverty
Arts, Culture & Media
Why Most Presidential Contenders Hide Their Language Skills
Mitt Romney’s $100,000 Computer Purge
Sports
South Korea Awarded 2018 Olympic Winter Games
Green Olympics
Business, Economics and Jobs
Takeouts: European finance ministers fight Obama bank plan, ice hockey heats up at the Winter Olympics
Arts, Culture & Media
Geo answer
Global Politics
Rethinking 2014 winter Olympics site