Thomas Bach has become the ninth president of the International Olympic Committee and succeeds Jacques Rogge who is standing down after 12 years. 

The 125-th Session of the International Olympic Committee continues in Buenos-Aires. 

One of the top-hockey players of Russia, Alexander Ovechkin will take part in the Olympic torch relay in Greece.

Weather Center predicts the snow cover not less than 0,5 meter deep during the Olympics.

All that is needed for hosting the Olympic Games in Sochi is already prepared, all the facilities are built – said the President of the International Olympic Committee Jacques Rogge. 

In October the Olympic Games-2014 flame will be brought to the North Pole on a nuclear-powered icebreaker.

Tomorrow, 29 August the Bike Ride “Moscow-London-Sochi” organized by athletes of Yugra Will will finish in Sochi.

Tomorrow, 29 August, Vanessa May, who plans to compete in the Olympic Games Sochi-2014, will take part in the Open Championship of Australia and New Zealand in alpine skiing.

The stuff of the Institute of Foreign Languages of Sergey Yesenin University of Ryazan produced a project of a phrase book for the coming Olympic Games.

Five American policemen from New-York came to the capital of the Winter Olympic Games-2014.