The Olympic Games in Sochi of 2014

For the Olympic Games in Sochi all began when on June 22, 2006 the president of the IOC Jacques Rogge from seven applying demands told the names of three candidate cities. Them Sochi, Salzburg and Pyeongchang steel. On July 4, 2007 (in Russia was already on July 5) in Guatemala the next, 119th IOC session at which the Olympic Games city owner was chosen took place. Just before vote passed presentations of the applicant cities. Sochi was presented by such athletes as Svetlana Zhurova, Evgeny Plushenko, Mikhail Terentyev (Paralympian) and Alexander Popov; sports functionaries: Vyacheslav Fetisov, Elena Anikina, Shamil Tarpishchev.