| January 2012 |
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Sochi's Olympic ski venue is "world class" and as good a competition destination as any on the World Cup tour, Vancouver gold medalist Bode Miller said Thursday.
The southern Russian resort city on the Black Sea won the right to host
the Olympics at an IOC session in Guatemala in July 2007 after a close
race with South Korea's Pyeongchang and Austria's Salzburg. More than 200 sports and infrastructural facilities are to be built in
Sochi by the time of the 2014 Winter Games. The cost of building the
facilities and infrastructure is estimated at more than $30 billion.

Russian sports minister Vitaly Mutko on Thursday moved to end confusion over the first key test event at the Sochi 2014 Olympic ski jump facility, saying a competition that had been postponed until March due to construction delays would go ahead this month as originally planned.
Unics Kazan coach Evgeny Pashutin has shrugged off his team's Euroleague basketball 63-58 defeat to Olimpia Milano, saying Thursday "nothing has changed" in the fight to reach the playoffs.
Ex-NBA forward Sonny Weems will not be allowed to leave Euroleague team Zalgiris, owner Vladimir Romanov has told RIA Novosti.
Hungarian international striker Tamas Priskin has joined Russian second-tier team Alania Vladikavkaz after being released by English side Ipswich Town.
Zenit St. Petersburg coach Luciano Spalletti has signed a deal to keep him at the Petrovsky Stadium until 2015.
Hearts owner Vladimir Romanov told RIA Novosti on Wednesday that all wage arrears with the debt-stricken Scottish club have been settled, but admitted to an outstanding tax bill that threatens their future.
Russia striker Roman Pavlyuchenko says his new team Lokomotiv Moscow must finish at least third in the Premier League this season, which would secure Champions League football.
Russian duo Vera Zvonareva and Maria Kirilenko reached the quarterfinals of the $220,000 Pattaya Open in Thailand on Wednesday.
The world’s best skiers are “delighted” with the Sochi Olympic downhill course as they prepare for a World Cup stage this weekend, Russian sports minister Vitaly Mutko said Wednesday.
The Russian Football Union has invited two well-known coaches, Valery Gazzaev and Oleg Romantsev, to strengthen the game’s newly revived ethics committee, which examines accusations of corruption in the game, Gazzaev said Wednesday.
Russia's national futsal team have done the homework on Thursday's European championship semifinal opponents Croatia, identifying goalkeeper Ivo Jukic as the key obstacle in their quest for a second-ever final place.
Sochi's Olympic biathlon course is the toughest in the world, according to billionaire Mikhail Prokhorov, president of the Russian Biathlon Union.
Spartak Moscow winger Aidan McGeady has flown home after sustaining an ankle injury at the club’s training camp in Spain, a club official said Wednesday.
Zenit St. Petersburg’s injured midfielder Danny said Wednesday that the club has enough talented players to cope with his absence without signing Arsenal's Andrey Arshavin.
Five-time NHL All-Star and Olympic gold medalist Owen Nolan has retired from ice hockey, ending an impressive career stretching back to 1988.
Spartak Moscow's victory in the offseason Copa del Sol gives the team a massive psychological boost ahead of the final part of the Russian Premier League season, coach Valery Karpin said Wednesday.
Alex Ovechkin grabbed two goals to help his Washington Capitals defeat the Florida Panthers 4-0 and take the lead of the NHL’s Southeast Division.