Tag: Sochi

Russian President Vladimir Putin addresses a meeting with heads of national paralympic committees in Sochi, Russia, Thursday, March 13, 2014. (AP Photo/RIA Novosti Kremlin, Mikhail Klimentyev, Presidential Press Service)

Putin thanks Paralympics for eschewing politics

Rob Harris · March 13, 2014 1:23 pm

Paralympics chief: No need for rights assurances

Rob Harris · March 11, 2014 7:40 am

Plea for peace and Ukraine’s independence in Sochi

Rob Harris · March 8, 2014 1:39 pm

Ukraine decides to compete in Paralympics in Sochi

Washington Examiner · March 7, 2014 9:58 am

Sochi court convicts local activists

Washington Examiner · February 25, 2014 10:35 am

Hosts’ real Olympic challenge: after the games

Sylvia Hui · February 24, 2014 5:02 pm

Fireworks explode over Olympic Park during the closing ceremony for the 2014 Winter Olympics, Sunday, Feb. 23, 2014, in Sochi, Russia. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum)

Costly, political, successful: Sochi Olympics end

John Leicester · February 23, 2014 7:20 pm

In this Feb. 9, 2014 photo Austria's Johannes Duerr competes during the men's cross-country 30k skiathlon at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Krasnaya Polyana, Russia. Duerr has been kicked out of the Sochi Games after testing positive for EPO, the country's Olympic committee said Sunday, Feb 23, 2014. It is the fifth doping case of the Olympics and the first involving the blood-boosting drug EPO. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader)

IOC confident in success of anti-doping program

Graham Dunbar · February 23, 2014 3:13 pm

Team Sweden skates back to the bench as Canada celebrates a goal during the first period of the men's gold medal ice hockey game at the 2014 Winter Olympics, Sunday, Feb. 23, 2014, in Sochi, Russia. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)

SOCHI SCENE: Ho-hum gold game?

Washington Examiner · February 23, 2014 1:09 pm

Russia's gold medal winner Alexander Legkov is flanked by Russia's silver medal winner Maxim Vylegzhanin, left and Russia's bronze medal winner Ilia Chernousov during the flower ceremony of the men's 50K cross-country race at the 2014 Winter Olympics, Sunday, Feb. 23, 2014, in Krasnaya Polyana, Russia. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

SOCHI SCENE: 3 medals, 3 quotes

Washington Examiner · February 23, 2014 10:59 am

Russia's gold medal winner Alexander Legkov is flanked by Russia's silver medal winner Maxim Vylegzhanin, left and Russia's bronze medal winner Ilia Chernousov during the flower ceremony of the men's 50K cross-country race at the 2014 Winter Olympics, Sunday, Feb. 23, 2014, in Krasnaya Polyana, Russia. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

Russia clinches medals title

Jon Krawczynski · February 23, 2014 9:52 am

Konstantin Ernst, chief creative director of the opening and closing ceremonies for the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, wears a T-shirt with the Olympic rings where one of the five rings is a snowflake during a news conference on the last day of the Olympics in Sochi, Russia, Sunday, Feb. 23, 2014. The T-shirt is a reference to the opening ceremony, when five snowflakes were supposed to open up into the five Olympic rings, but one failed to open. Ernst was met with applause and laughter when he took off his jumper at the press conference, revealing the T-shirt with the glitch. (AP Photo/Dorothee Thiesing)

SOCHI SCENE: Those rings, redux

Nataliya Vasilyeva · February 23, 2014 9:29 am