The Executive Board (EB) of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) unanimously agreed today that Oslo (Norway), Almaty (Kazakhstan) and Beijing (China)* would progress from the Applicant City Phase to the Candidate City Phase in the bid to host the Olympic Winter Games 2022.

Today, 2nd June, the World Sports Journalist Day is celebrated.

IOC President Thomas Bach celebrated Olympic Day with over 1’000 athletes at the IOC headquarters in Lausanne on Monday, 23rd June 2014.

Today, 1st July, a meeting of a coaching staff of the Freestyle Federation of Russia took place in Moscow.

A delegation of the Organizing Committee Sochi-2014 went to South Korea to share it’s experience with organizers of next Olympic Games.

A mass cycle-run took place in Alma-Ata (KAZ) to support a bid for Olympics-2022.

Representatives of the Freestyle Federation of Russia visited Kamchatka to evaluate possibilities of development of freestyle skiing in the region.

The President of the Russian Olympic Committee Alexander Zhukov announced, that all the profit of the Organizing Committee Sochi-2014 will be spent on sport development due to an order of the President of Russia Vladimir Putin.

The alpine skiing resort “Rosa Khutor”, which became a place of competitions in alpine skiing, snowboard and freestyle skiing during the Olympic Games today greets guests from all over the world.

Today, 10th June, the electing conference of the Russian Ski Jumping and Nordic Combined Federation took place in Moscow.