12 Facts About Sochi Winter Olympics

Sochi Winter Olympics was selected as the host city in July 2007, during the 119th IOC Session held in Guatemala City.

Sochi Winter Olympics was elected on 4 July 2007 during the 119th International Olympic Committee session held in Guatemala City, Guatemala, defeating bids from Salzburg, Austria; and Pyeongchang, South Korea.

Street circuit known as the Sochi Winter Olympics Autodrom was constructed in and around Olympic Park.

In November 2011, IOC President Jacques Rogge was in Sochi Winter Olympics and concluded that the city had made significant progress since he last visited eighteen months earlier.

Avaya was named by the Sochi Winter Olympics Organizing Committee as the official supplier of telecommunications equipment.

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Five-year strategy for increasing the power supply of the Sochi Winter Olympics region was presented by Russian energy experts during a seminar on 29 May 2009, held by the Sochi Winter Olympics 2014 Organizing Committee, and attended by International Olympic Committee experts and officials from the Russian Ministry of Regional Development, the Russian Ministry of Energy, the State Corporation Olimpstroy and the Krasnodar Krai administration.

Transport infrastructure prepared to support the Olympics includes many roads, tunnels, bridges, interchanges, railroads and stations in and around Sochi.

All the new sites and post offices in Sochi were opened during the Olympics until late night 7 days a week, and employees were trained to speak English.

Opening ceremony of the 2014 Winter Olympics was held on 7 February 2014 at Fisht Olympic Stadium, an indoor arena built specifically for the ceremonies.

All communication and Internet traffic by Sochi Winter Olympics residents was captured and filtered through deep packet inspection systems at all mobile networks using the SORM system.

Former professional speed skater and current deputy of the Russian State Duma Svetlana Zhurova has stated that the 2014 Sochi Olympics were Vladimir Putin's personal project to showcase Russia to the world.

In most regions, broadcast rights to the 2014 Winter Olympics were packaged together with broadcast rights for the 2016 Summer Olympics, but some broadcasters obtained rights to further games as well.