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...