Russia win 2014 Winter Games
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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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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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Russia came back from two sets down and saved seven match points against Brazil in the semi-finals of the women&#39;s volleyball on Thursday for a spectacular win that put them into their second straight Olympic final.
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Backed by President Vladimir V. Putinâs personal lobbying, the Black Sea resort town of Sochi was elected Wednesday as the host city of the 2014 Winter Games.
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MOSCOW -- Olympic silver medalist and 2002 world champion Irina Slutskaya presented an almost flawless program to take the lead after the short program at the Cup of Russia on Friday.
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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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SOCHI, Russia  - It takes more than a little imagination to see this Russian ski resort in the same bracket as St. Moritz or Aspen.
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Russia defeated Brazil in five sets in Athens on Thursday to cruise into the final of the women&#39;s volleyball in the Athens Olympics.
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Russia's Yuriy Borzakovskiy produces a trademark sprint finish to take Olympic 800m gold.
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Russia plans to build a $6 billion artificial island off the coast of the Black Sea resort of Sochi ahead of the 2014 Winter Olympic Games there, a Russian property developer said on Monday.
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SOCHI, Russia  - Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday urged his officials to make a success of hosting the Winter Olympic Games in 2014, an event supporters say will form a crucial part of his legacy.
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NOVOIMERETINSKAYA BUKHTA, Russia  - The Russian city of Sochi can relish its victory in the race to host the 2014 Winter Olympics but some local residents fear for their homes ahead of large-scale construction work.
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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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Moscow - Anastasia Myskina defeated Elena Dementieva 7-5 6-0 to defend her title in the first-ever all-Russian final at the Kremlin Cup tennis tournament on Sunday as Russians won all four championship matches.
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ATHENS : Yuriy Borzakovskiy became the first Russian runner to win the Olympic Games men&#39;s 800 metres here. Lying at the back of the eight-man field at the bell, Borzakovskiy unleashed his trademark sizzling
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Russians shone in the Grand Prix of Figure Skating Final 2004/2005 with former world champion Irina Slutskaya won the women&#39;s singles title.
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Russia secured its third Fed Cup title Sunday after Svetlana Kuznetsova rallied to beat Francesca Schiavone 4-6, 7-6 (7), 7-5 in the first reverse singles and gave the hosts an insurmountable 3-0 lead over Italy.