More recently, one of the most ambitious sporting events in the world has come to an end. The Winter Olympic Games are regularly, every four years, held in different countries where there are slopes covered with snow. This time, all the athletes in the world were hosted by the Russian city of Sochi. The countries participating in the 2014 Olympics have shown what they are capable of. Russia, as the mistress of the sports arena, also did not face the dirt.
The most expensive Olympics
It was a record Olympics in many ways. In addition to the fact that the countries participating in the 2014 Olympics gained a lot of medals, setting new world sports records, the competitions turned out to be the most economically costly in the entire history of the Olympic Games. In 2007, at the 119th session of the IOC in Guatemala, the Russian city of Sochi bypassed the Australian Salzburg and South Korean Pyeongchang in the number of votes and received the right to host the Olympics in 2014. No one suspected that Russia would spend an unprecedented amount in the history of sports for organizing the winter games. Indeed, if we compare the costs of Canadians for the last Olympics in Vancouver with the costs of the Russians, the latter managed to spend four times as much money! Canada organized competitions for 12 billion dollars, and Russia - for 51 billion!
Winter Games Records
The 2014 Winter Olympics is the twenty-second competition in a row for the past ninety years, just as in 1980 in Moscow, the twenty-second were the summer ones. The countries of the Southern Hemisphere before that did not act as hosts of the Olympic Games. The record-breakers in this matter can be called the United States - they have received athletes in the winter competitions four times already. Three times France organized the Winter Olympic Games, two times - Sweden, Austria, Norway, Japan, Canada and Italy.
An interesting fact is that countries such as Hungary, the United Kingdom, Austria, Italy, Poland, Canada, Norway, Finland, the USA, Switzerland, Sweden and France have been constant participants in all the Winter Games since 1924.
The record of countries such as Finland, Sweden, Austria, Norway, Canada and the USA can be considered that at each Winter Olympics they managed to win medals. And the United States of America is a unique record holder in the history of sports - the athletes of this country managed to bring their team gold medals during each of the Winter Olympics.
The largest number of participants
Many sports fans are interested in knowing which countries participated in the 2014 Olympics. Russia was able to excel here too! The number of countries participating in the 2014 Olympics was also a record. In the Winter Games, athletes from 88 countries demonstrated their capabilities. Let's try to list them: Japan, Jamaica, South Korea, Estonia, Sweden, Switzerland, Finland, Chile, France, Czech Republic, Montenegro, Croatia, Philippines, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Turkey, Togo, Tonga, Taiwan, Thailand, Tajikistan, USA, Slovenia , Slovakia, Serbia, San Marino, Romania, Portugal, Italy, Poland, Iceland, Peru, Paraguay, Pakistan.
Which countries have participated in the 2014 Olympics yet? This, of course, Norway, New Zealand, the Netherlands, Nepal, Mongolia, Monaco, Moldova, Mexico, Morocco, Malta, Macedonia, Luxembourg, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Latvia, Lebanon, China, Kyrgyzstan, Cyprus, Canada, Cayman Islands, Kazakhstan, Spain, Ireland, India, Israel, Zimbabwe, Dominica, Denmark. Georgia was also a participant in the competition, although it applied almost at the last moment. In addition to the above, which countries participated in the 2014 Olympics? Athletes from countries such as Greece, Hong Kong, Germany, East Timor, Venezuela, Hungary, Great Britain, Iran, the British Virgin Islands, Brazil, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Bermuda, Belgium, Belarus, Armenia, Argentina, Andorra could not miss the grand event. , US Virgin Islands, Austria, Albania, Azerbaijan, Australia.
Numerous national teams
The countries participating in the Sochi Olympics were represented by their sports teams. It is known that countries such as Norway, France, Switzerland, Sweden, Germany, Austria, Italy and Finland, which have very good achievements in skiing, presented their national teams of athletes, each of which from 105 to 168 athletes. From Canada, 222 participants acted, in the US team there were 224 athletes. The hostess-organizer Russia introduced the world to its 223 best athletes. In total, over 2500 athletes competed at the XXII Winter Olympic Games in Sochi.
Another record: sports
Past games were the most diverse in the entire history of their existence. For sixteen days of the Olympics, 98 competitions were held in fifteen winter sports. In more disciplines such as ski jumping, downhill skiing, snowboarding and freestyle, there were much more competitions than in previous years. Together with the number of competitions, the number of medals of various denominations was increased. This is another feature of the Sochi Olympics. The main goal of setting record levels for the Olympic Games was to attract the attention of the largest number of viewers from around the world. Did Russia succeed?
Number of viewers
The organizing committee of the XXII Winter Olympic Games has developed a special program to attract spectators to the most ambitious sporting event. Thanks to this, more than forty thousand people attended the opening ceremony of the Olympics! Twenty-one thousand fans attended the ice hockey finals, there were more than eight thousand attendees at prefinal fights, and a similar number at ski races. There were also more spectators at all other types of competitions than at previous Olympics in other countries. Russia managed to set a record here too!
Winners
Which countries participated in the 2014 Olympics and were able to win a particular competition? Among the winners in the first five were the Netherlands (received 24 medals: 8 gold, 7 silver and 9 bronze), the USA (28 medals: 9 - gold, 7 - silver, 12 - bronze), Canada (25 medals: 10 each - gold and silver, 5 - bronze), Norway (received 26 medals: 11 gold, 5 silver and 10 bronze).
The winner was Russia, in its arsenal after the Olympics in Sochi 9 bronze, 11 silver and 13 gold medals (total 33). The top ten also included Germany (19 medals), Switzerland (11), Belarus (6), Austria (17) and France (15 medals).