2. The Olympics are now the biggest sporting event in the world. There are many more events and sports to participate in and there is even a separate Winter Games every four years. The motto of Olympic Games is ‘Faster,higher,Stronger’ Olympic flag

3. Baron Pierre de Coubertin founded the International Olympic Committee in 1896, and is considered the father of the modern Olympic Games. He designed the famous logo with five coloured rings. These represent the continents of the world joined in peace and harmony.

4. Olympic Flag The five rings represent the five major places of the world: Africa, the Americas, Asia, Europe, and Oceania. Every country’s flag in the world includes at least one of the five colors, which are blue, yellow, black, green, and red.

5. De Coubertin also wrote the Olympic creed, which explained what he thought the Olympics were all about.

6. Months before the Olympics begin a flame is lit in Olympia and is passed through a relay of torches. The torches are carried by foot, air, road, rail or water to the chosen stadium. During the opening ceremony the last torch lights a cauldron, which burns hroughout the Games.

7. Torch Olympic Torch at the recent Olympic Games in Sochi (2014). And his relay.

9. skating center Adler Arena skating center Adler Arena Palace of winter sports Iceberg Skating Palace Palace of winter sports Iceberg Skating Palace curling center Ice Cube Curling Centre curling center Ice Cube Curling Centre Large Ice Palace For a short time in Sochi was built a magnificent sports complex. ice Arena Shayba Arena ice Arena Shayba Arena Fisht Olympic Stadium Fisht Olympic Stadium Sochi 2014 will be the first Winter Games to have venues in two distinct ‘clusters’, with 11 newly built arenas set to provide world-class stages for the athletes

10. Sanki Sliding Centre Venue for: Bobsleigh, skeleton, luge Rosa Khutor Alpine Centre Venue for: Alpine skiing Laura Cross-Country Ski & Biathlon Centre Venue for: Cross-country skiing, biathlon Rosa Khutor Extreme Park Venue for: Snowboarding, freestyle skiing RusSki Gorki Jumping Centre Venue for: Ski jumping It was also built a large number of runs for the Winter Games.

11. The Polar Bear, the Hare and the Leopard - Sochi 2014 Games Mascots

12. Olympics in Sochi are the 22nd Winter Olympic Games. Moscow was hosting the 22nd Summer Olympic Games in 1980. Bear Olympic Games in Sochi ancestor Misha Olympic Games in Moscow.

13. The opening ceremony offered a sweeping overview of Russian history in 18 parts. A Fresh Look At Russian Culture Ceremonies

14. Drama, dancing, wildly excessive firework displays and even a sense of humour were all on display as the curtain came down on Sochi 2014. The Closing Ceremony And the closing event was a low-key "art house" production, dedicated to Russian culture and reflected sadness over the Olympics ending.

15. Picture of the moment the flame went out.

16. Fireworks explode around the Fisht Olympic Stadium at the end of the Closing Ceremony of the Sochi Winter

17. RUSSIAN VICTORY: The host nation is finishing strong at the Sochi Games. The Russians swept the podium in the men's 50-kilometer cross-country race and also won gold in the four-man bobsled on the final day of the games. The performances helped the Russians finish with the most gold medals (13) and most total medals (33) of any nation four years after the country's worst Winter Games performance ever. Olympic medal in Sochi. Real work of art.

18. Holders of medals Fedor KLIMOV and Ksenia STOLBOVA Silver in the pairs figure skating Maxim TRANKOV and Tatiana VOLOSOZHAR First place in the Figure Skating Elena ILINYKH and Nikita KATSALAPOV Bronze in pairs

19. Yulia LIPNITSKAYA She won gold only team competition. No she is only 15 years. And she is sure to win a medal at the next Olympics. Adelina SOTNIKOVA First place in the Figure Skating

20. Victor An Two gold medals in Short Track and one gold team competition. Vladimir GRIGOREV Solver medal in Short Track and one gold team competition

21. Olga GRAF Bronze in Speed Skating and in the team competition.

22. Vic WILD Gold in Men's Parallel Giant Слалом and Men's Parallel Slalom. First time in the history of two gold medals in slalom in one person. Nikolay OLYUNIN Silver in Men's Snowboard Cross Alena ZAVARZINA Bronze in Ladies' Parallel Giant Slalom

23. Alexey VOEVODA Alexander ZUBKOV Two gold in bobsled.

24. Alexander LEGKOV Maxim VYLEGZHANIN Gold and Silver in Cross-Country Three Silver in Cross-Country

25. Anton SHIPULINEvgeny USTYUGOV Alexey VOLKOVEvgeniy GARANICHEV Gold in the relay biathlon.

26. Alexander TRETIAKOV Gold in the skeleton.

27. Albert DEMCHENKO Two Silvers in Luge

28. President Thomas Bach says the Sochi Olympics have showcased the "amazing" transformation of the city from a fading resort to a modern Winter Games wonderland.

29. The actual cost of the Games including the construction of infrastructure facilities is more than $ 50 billion USD. This figure is a record not only in absolute terms in the history of the Olympic Games, but also on the excess over the original estimates (more than 4 times).

30. Sochi city is one of the few places in Russia where the snow in the winter time is a rare natural phenomenon.

31. Special thanks for the work you need to tell the volunteers who came to Sochi from all over Russia.