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The first major test event for the 2014 Sochi Olympics was hailed as a success.
Construction for the games may be behind schedule elsewhere, but the Alpine skiing venue is ready."We could already have the Olympic Alpine events next week here with this organizing structure," men's World Cup director Gunter Hujara said during this weekend's downhill and super-combined races. "The hill is ready. There are some (adaptations) we can make but for a test race you always have to find out whether it's too straight, too turny, too hard, too soft or whatever."Indeed, the only major complaints from athletes was that the Rosa Khutor course contained too many turns to be considered a true downhill.As usual, Bode Miller led the revolt. The American standout said repeatedly how great the mountain is, but that organizers need to straighten out the course set."Hopefully they'll learn how to use this terrain and make something special," Miller said. "The venue, the mountain is world class. It's as nice a...BAKURIANI, Georgia (AP) — The head of the Vancouver Olympics, an Olympic gold medalist and other dignitaries attended a ceremony Tuesday at the grave of the Georgian...
Assailants targeted Israeli diplomats in India and Georgia in near-simultaneous strikes Monday that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu blamed on archenemy Ira...
By Amie Ferris-RotmanSOCHI, Russia (Reuters) - Suicide attacks that killed 40 on the Moscow metro last month have fueled fears Islamists will target the 2014 Winter ...
Georgia arrested six people suspected of being agents for Russia and accused them of staging a series of explosions, including one outside the U.S. Embassy in the ca...
The father of the Georgian luger killed during practice before the Vancouver Olympics angrily dismissed a coroner's report saying lack of experience played a role in...
Early one morning in March, two Armenians slipped aboard a train in the Georgian capital of Tbilisi, unaware they were being watched. They removed a pack of Marlboro...
Early one morning in March, two Armenians slipped aboard a train in the Georgian capital of Tbilisi, unaware they were being watched. They removed a pack of Marlboro...
Georgia Reports Attacks Continue as Russia's Medvedev Orders Troop WithdrawalTuesday, August 12, 2008Print APAug 11: Russian troops take position near the village of...
Italian qualifier Camila Giorgi sent top-seeded Russian Nadia Petrova packing in the first round at the $220,000 Memphis International tennis event.Giorgi ousted the...
LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) — The International Olympic Committee says it is confident Russia will provide a safe Winter Olympics in Sochi in 2014.The IOC expressed c...
Georgian president on European Union's report on instigator of war between Georgia and Russia
U.N. Security Council Calls for Emergency Session to Resolve Georgia-Russia Crisis; Russian Troops Near TbilisiMonday, August 11, 2008Print ReutersAug. 9: Georgian s...
On the list of countries not to confuse with the former Soviet republic of Georgia , Russia is probably high up. But President Obama committed the flub on Monday whi...
TBILISI, Georgia (AP) — The father of the Georgian luger killed at the Vancouver Olympics said Monday his son worried the track was too dangerous, but insisted on co...
TBILISI, Georgia (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton rebuked Russia on Monday for failing to live up to the cease-fire agreement it signed nearly t...
TBILISI, Georgia (AP) — Candidates from President Mikhail Saakashvili's party dominated local elections in Georgia, according to preliminary results Monday in the fi...
The leader of Abkhazia, a separatist region of Georgia aligned with Russia, died Sunday in a Moscow hospital where he was being treated for lung cancer. He was 62.Se...
VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) — From the Pacific coast to the shores of the Black Sea. From the peaks of western Canada to the Caucasus mountains of southern Russ...
TBILISI, Georgia -- The personal photographer to the Georgian president was shown on television Saturday confessing to supplying a colleague with secret information ...
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