Olympic and Paralympic Games 2014 in Sochi will be an important event in the life of our country, that will leave priceless sport heritage for the new generation of sportsmen and for the whole Olympic Movement. Games will facilitate the economic growth of the region, change of Sochi into the resort of international level and the center of business activity. This, in its turn, will provide the improving of living standards of the population of the region. Olympic and Paralympic Games will insure positive changes in Russian society: more attention will be paid to the environmental problems and integration of disabled people into an active social life. Olympic games will raise the popularity of winter kinds of sport among the Russians.

With the support of the Government, there will be constructed new transport infrastructure, hotel chain will be expanded, engineer communications will be modernized, and also the range of modern sports facilities will be set within the following six years in Sochi. Sportsmen from Russia and from the states of the former Soviet Union will get the most up-to-date training ground. Russians have won 293 medals for the whole history of Winter Olympic Games. Our country has hosted international championships and competitions more than hundred times for the last 25 years. The Russians like sports, and the numerous victories of our sportsmen have contributed a lot into the formation of national identity.

The list of Olympic objects in Sochi:
• Big ice rink for ice hockey;
• Central Olympic Stadium;
• Ice Sports Palace for figure-skating and short-treck;
• Mini ice rink for ice hockey;
• Roofed Skating Centre.






05.01.2010
Dmitry Medvedev Held a Meeting on Preparations for the 2014 Sochi Olympics.

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