There are only 9 days until the Opening Ceremony of the XXII Olympic Winter Games in Sochi, Russia.
98 events in 15 winter sport disciplines will be held. Both the Olympics and 2014 Winter Paralympics are being organized by the Sochi Organizing Committee (SOC). Sochi was selected as the host city in July 2007, during the 119th IOC Session held in Guatemala City.[3] The Sochi Olympics will be the first Olympics in the Russian Federation since the breakup of the USSR in 1991. The USSR was the host nation for the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow.
Controversy aside in this thread, I am personally very excited for the actual athletic events of these games. After the unbelievable games in 2010 in my hometown of Vancouver, Canada that I was so fortunate to experience first-hand, it's going to be great to see them back again.
I'll be posting in this thread and hope a few of you are into it as well! Good luck to all of the athletes.
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