The touristic and economic aspects of mountains in Italy have been linked with sport for a long time. To analyse more in depth the possible developments of Italian mountains, at 3.30 PM at casa Italia of Rosa kuthor, at hotel park inn, a round table will be held with Giovanni Malagò, CONI president,Flavio Roda, FISI president,Andy Varallo, dolomiti ski vicepresident,Gustav Thöni, Olympic and...

Sochi Olympics organisers began shovelling snow stored since last winter on to the race piste. On Tuesday, after rising temperatures threatened the quality of the track surfaces in the mountains. At noon, weather reports showed the temperature on peaks at -6C while on the lower levels of the mountain cluster it was 6C. Sochi organisers say they anticipated the possibility of a...

Zoeggeler will be at Casa Italia after the Victory Ceremony in Medal Plaza scheduled this evening.

Christof Innerhofer will be at Italy House after Victory Ceremony in Medal Plaza

All three Olympic Villages opened for the first time. The Olympic Village in the Coastal Cluster will be home to 2,000 athletes and delegates during the Games. The Mountain Olympic Village, the largest of the three villages, will accommodate nearly 3,000 people whilst the Endurance Village will be home to more than 1,000 people.A concert by Russian group Siberiahills, led by Natalia Simakova...

They are young, bright and speak good English. Russia has trained 25,000 volunteers to work at the upcoming Sochi Games. President Vladimir Putin, who views the Olympics that start on Feb. 7 as a top priority of his presidency, met with a few dozen volunteers Friday at a biathlon venue in the mountains above Sochi, saying their work "to a greater extent is key to the atmosphere" at the games....

Russia has today begun one of the biggest security operations in Olympic history to coincide with the one month to go mark until the Opening Ceremony of the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympic Games.  More than 30,000 police and interior ministry troops have been deployed, while measures to restrict vehicle access, the sale of firearms, explosives and ammunition, and protests, which are...

Sochi 2014 will be the most compact Winter Games in the history of the Olympic Movement. It will be possible to get from one venue to another in just a matter of minutes and all Olympic and Paralympic competition will take place in the same venues. It is for this reason that all athletic facilities for the Sochi 2014 Games are being built with the needs of disabled people in mind.Eleven...

On International Volunteer Day, 5 December, the Organizing Committee of the Winter Games in Sochi presented the national "Sochi 2014 Volunteer Team". The Sochi 2014 Volunteer Team is complete, comprised of 25,000 volunteers from 26 volunteer centers across Russia as well as global volunteers. The Sochi 2014 Volunteer Team is young and energetic. The average age of volunteers is 25, among them...