Sochi hosts 2014 Winter Olympics
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Russia's Sochi is chosen to host the 2014 Winter Olympics, beating South Korean and Austrian cities.
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By The Idaho Statesman, Boise  Feb. 21--Olympic medalists and Winter X Games champions will compete this weekend in the U.S. Snowboard Grand Prix at Tamarack Resort.   The event, free to the public, starts Thursday with practice sessions.
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The tiny Pacific island chain of Tuvalu is set to become the newest Olympic member. Montenegro, which was recognized by the committee board this year after splitting from Serbia, is also set to gain formal admittance from the assembly. The centerpiece of the meetings is Wednesdayâs selection of the host city for the 2014 Winter Olympics. The three candidates are Salzburg, Austria; Pyeongchang, South Korea; and Sochi, Russia.
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President Vladimir Putin promised rich natural snow and no traffic jams as he presented the case on Wednesday for Russia's Black Sea resort of Sochi to stage the 2014 Winter Olympics .
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President Vladimir Putin has claimed Sochi's victory in the race to host the 2014 Winter Olympics as an international endorsement of Russia's economic resurgence.
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The Russian bid-team from Sochi erupted in euphoria on Wednesday after Olympic president Jacques Rogge announced that the Black Sea resort would stage the 2014 Winter Games.
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President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia lent support to a bid to play host to the 2014 Olympics in Sochi, saying his country wanted a chance to show it could stage a successful Winter Games.Putin said yesterday in Guatemala City that Russia, a leading Olympic medal-winning nation that has never played host to the Winter Olympics, had long supported the Games movement.The International Olympic Committee will decide the winning bid today in the Guatemalan capital, with Salzburg, Austria, and Pyeongchang, South Korea, also in the running.
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An avalanche swept into a chairlift Sunday at a ski resort that is part of Russia's bid for the 2014 Winter Olympics, killing a 10-year-old child and trapping at least three other people, the Emergency Situations Ministry said.
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LAUSANNE, Switzerland -- Los Angeles was awarded figure skating's 2009 world championships, which will serve as a qualifier for the Vancouver Olympics. Placements at worlds will determine how many spots a country gets for the 2010 Winter Games.
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Russia hailed its winning bid to host the 2014 Winter Olympics on Thursday as proof of the country's return to global prominence following a post-Soviet slump, and as a personal triumph for President Vladimir Putin.
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The Black Sea resort of Sochi, boosted by the personal intervention of Russian president Vladimir Putin, won the right to stage the 2014 Winter Olympic Games on Wednesday.
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The Black Sea resort of Sochi will host the 2014 Winter Olympic Games after beating off challenges from Pyeongchang of South Korea and Salzburg of Austria in an International Olympic Committee vote on Wednesday.
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Reward Russia with its first Winter Olympics? Take the games to a new Asian market in South Korea? Or return to the Austrian Alps for the first time in nearly 40 years?.
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The three candidates to host the 2014 Winter Olympic Games made their final pitches to the International Olympic Committee (IOC) on Wednesday and then waited nervously for the outcome of the vote.
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After little-known Pyeongchang nearly upended Vancouver in the last Winter Games vote, nobody's betting the palace on how the International Olympic Committee will vote tomorrow when it chooses its 2014 site in Guatemala. "I expect it to be as close as Singapore," reckoned president Jacques Rogge, referring to the session two years ago when London outpolled favored Paris by four ...
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Governor Kim Jin-sun said on Wednesday that he would achieve his dream of uniting families divided by the North-South Korea border by Pyeongchang winning the right to host the 2014 Winter Games.
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Turin, Italy (Sports Network) - Valentino Castellani, the chief organizer of the Turin Winter Olympic Committee, has resolved a dispute with government officials over control of the games and changed his mind about resigning.