![]() ![]() We looked for more insight into this topic at the question-and-answer site Quora. The games are meant to bring a sense of international goodwill, after all. If you're thinking that the two ways of looking at the medal count get at something deeper in the Olympics - a clash of philosophies and values, perhaps - you're not alone. Organizers in both countries declared victory. If the current pattern holds, it would be similar to 2008, when China won the most gold medals, while the U.S. top four - but it led the tally on the Sochi 2014 site, on the strength of those eight gold medals. That was despite the stronger Dutch tally of six silver and eight bronze medals to go with six gold medals, the same as the U.S. Olympic Committee site, for instance, Team USA sat atop the standings with 20 total medals, followed by the Netherlands, also with 20. Russian Railways head Vladimir Yakunin later said the IOC member he should be charged with slander unless he can provide evidence.On the U.S. An International Olympic Committee (IOC) member last week alleged that one-third of investment had been pinched - or about $18 billion. For comparison, that's four times the annual GDP of Tajikistan. dollars, that opposition politician Boris Nemtsov claims has been lost to theft during the preparations for the Sochi Olympics. In Sochi, some residents refer to the Olympics as "Olympiada Vladimirovna" - Vladimir’s Olympiad. Putin spoke in English and French at the ceremony. Sochi was selected over South Korea’s Pyeongchang and Austria’s Salzburg. dollars that Putin pledged to spend on preparations for the Olympics during his bid speech to the International Olympic Committee in Guatemala in 2007. The project was undertaken by Russian Railways, which is headed by Vladimir Yakunin, a long-time associate of President Vladimir Putin. Russian "Esquire" magazine calculated that for that price it could have been paved with a nine-centimeter layer of shredded Louis Vuitton handbags or foie gras to a depth of 22 centimeters. dollars of the new joint road and railroad linking Sochi’s Adler district with the Krasnaya Polyana Mountain Cluster. According to Stratfor’s estimate, this means there will be one law-enforcement officer for every 3.43 local residents. Some complain that Sochi resembles a "fortress." Russia’s far-reaching security measures - which include massive surveillance projects - have been dubbed "unprecedented" in modern Olympic history. With close to 100,000 security personnel, Sochi will have nearly four times the number deployed for the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, Stratfor estimates. Islamic militants have vowed to disrupt the games. Security is a major concern in Sochi, which is close to Russia's restive North Caucasus region. It will have been carried by 14,000 torchbearers - including a 101-year-old table-tennis player and a gaggle of Siberian ice divers - during its relay from Red Square to the Black Sea resort, where it arrives on February 7.Ī figure "close to" the number of security personnel under control of the Federal Security Services (FSB) in Sochi, according to the Stratfor global intelligence company. The flame will have traversed all Russia’s 83 regions and republics. The record-breaking distance in kilometers traveled by the Olympic torch on its way to Sochi. The bombings prompted widespread security concerns over Sochi. The attacks on a historic city in the Russian heartland signaled North Caucasus Islamist militants are capable of striking beyond Russia’s restive southern fringes. The number of deadly bombings in Volgograd in the final three months of 2013. The torch, however, was not lit as combustion is impossible in open space and it was considered too dangerous to light inside the space station. No Olympic host had ever attempted this cosmic stunt during the torch relay that precedes the games. Two Russian cosmonauts took the torch outside the International Space Station for a spacewalk on November 9. The number of times Russia blasted the Olympic torch into space. How much does an Olympic medal weigh and how long does one take to produce? How many security personnel will be on the streets of Sochi during the games? And how many times could you have built the world's tallest skyscraper for the cost of the 2014 Olympic Games? RFE/RL's Tom Balmforth knows the answer. ![]()
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