Russia awarded 2014 Winter Games
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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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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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A year before the final vote, the race for the 2014 Winter Olympics is about to get serious.
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Fireworks boomed in the sky to celebrate Sochi's selection as the site of the 2014 Olympics, and Russians' hearts filled with pride, confident their long-beleaguered land has finally overcome its troubles.
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MOSCOW  - Russia's upper house of parliament on Wednesday ratified the Kyoto protocol and sent it to President Vladimir Putin for the final stamp of approval that would bring the global climate pact into force early next year.
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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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Gerhard Heiberg of Norway, the Olympicsâ top marketing official, was re-elected yesterday to the powerful executive board of the International Olympic Committee, defeating three other candidates. Heiberg, who oversaw the 1994 Winter Games in Lillehammer, Norway, won on the first round of a secret ballot. He received 49 votes and was followed by Juan Antonio Samaranch Jr. of Spain with 22 votes, Mustapha Larfaoui of Algeria with 15 and Anita Defrantz of the United States with 6.As head of the I.O.C. marketing commission, Heiberg is responsible for negotiating sponsorship deals with global corporations.
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Maria Sharapova and Nikolay Davydenko have been voted Russia's best players for the second year in a row, the country's tennis federation announced at its annual award gala on Sunday.
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For the Record: 30 December 2004, Thursday. Sports: 15 April 2004, Thursday. Bulgaria officially submitted its bid for hosting the 2014 Olympics.
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Russia and China - former Cold War foes - will hold an unprecedented military exercise in the second half of 2005. The war game, involving naval ships and aircraft, will take place on Chinese territory, Russian Defence Minister Sergei Ivanov said.
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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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Russia formally ratified the Kyoto  Protocol on global warming on Thursday, clearing the way for  the environment pact to come into force in February 2005.
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I membri del Cio hanno assegnato la manifestazione a Soci, sul mar NeroBattute le altre candidate: Salisburgo, per l'Austria e Pyeongchang, Corea del Sud                                            Olimpiadi invernali del 2014 in Russia La gioia di Putin: "Un posto unico"
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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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Zurich has abandoned plans to bid for the 2014 Winter Olympics because of the financial burden in staging the event. The Swiss Olympic Association said the authorities had decided not to proceed due to the &quot;current precarious financial position&quot;.
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Russia's second city St Petersburg will bid to host the 2020 Summer Olympics, the city governor said on Friday, a day after Russia's Sochi had won the right to stage the 2014 Winter Games.
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MOSCOW, Dec. 19 -- Scattered flurries teased Moscow on Tuesday afternoon with the promise of a real winter, the birthright of a city whose people take pride in trudging through snow and in ice fishing and cross-country skiing in white countryside beyond the outer beltway.