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The cost of the 2014 Winter Games in the Russian city of Sochi now stands at $51 billion, making it the most expensive Olympics in history. More than half of the bill is being footed by Russian state-controlled companies and business tycoons. A look at what the major players are building in Sochi:THE RUSSIAN GOVERNMENTThe government is building five of the six arenas in the coastal cluster, which will host indoor competitions such as ice skating, for about $10 billion. Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Kozak, who is overseeing the Sochi preparations, said the government will spend a total of about $18 billion before the games begin in February 2014.GAZPROMThe world's largest natural gas producer, a publicly traded company, has many Olympic projects in Sochi, including building a cross-country skiing and biathlon center, one of the three Olympic villages and an Alpine ski resort. Gazprom is also building a power station in a Sochi suburb for about $740 million and a pipeline to bring gas sup...
WHISTLER, British Columbia (AP) — Russia's Evgeny Ustyugov finally won a medal at the Vancouver Games, capturing the men's 15-kilometer mass start biathlon race.The ...
By Chris BaldwinLONDON (Reuters) - The Christmas and New Year holidays offered little rest for Tim Burke as he prepared for his role as the first American biathlete ...
WHISTLER, British Columbia (AP) — Ole Einar Bjoerndalen taught his protege too well — and too much.Norway's Emil Hegle Svendsen denied Bjoerndalen his sixth Olympic ...
WHISTLER, British Columbia (AP) — Magdalena Neuner of Germany needed to make just one more shot to guarantee herself an Olympic gold medal.She held her breath, took ...
LONDON (AP) — Olympic officials, acting on a tip-off from the World Anti-Doping Agency, are retesting some doping samples from the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin to c...
An Italian court has cleared Austrian ski federation president Peter Schroecksnadel and biathlon chief Markus Gandler of any involvement in the blood-doping scandal ...
BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany's former Olympic biathlon champion Kati Wilhelm will end her glittering career only weeks after winning her seventh medal at a Games, a re...
Competition at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia, will begin a day before the opening ceremony — a first for a winter games.Qualifying events in figure skati...
David Svoboda won what could be the final men's modern pentathlon event at the Olympics on the 100th anniversary of its inception, outpacing China's Cao Zhongrong on...
VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) — A female Russian hockey player was reprimanded Thursday but escaped a ban after testing positive for a stimulant in the first dopi...
VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) — So these won't be remembered as the Vonn-couver Olympics after all. It's looking like they will belong to the entire U.S. delegati...
WHISTLER, British Columbia (AP) — Two missed targets weren't enough to keep Magdalena Neuner from leaving Vancouver with at least two Olympic golds.With a quick burs...
The mountains of Sochi are now home to Potanin's slope, Gazprom's gondola lift and Sberbank's ski jump. The nicknames used by locals and an army of construction work...
WHISTLER, British Columbia (AP) — Tim Burke's chances of cracking America's biathlon barrier are down to a precious few.There's the 20-kilometer individual race Thur...
WHISTLER, British Columbia (AP) — Russia won the women's biathlon relay at the Vancouver Olympics on Tuesday after Olga Zaitseva easily protected her team's massive ...
VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) — The Nordic combined and biathlon are afterthoughts in the U.S. — if they're thought of at all — but that could change this year.A ...
WHISTLER, British Columbia (AP) — Swedish favorite Helena Jonsson failed to even crack the top 10 despite a clean shoot, the big shocker of the first women's biathlo...
WHISTLER, British Columbia (AP) — Tim Burke is 0-for-3 in his quest to put America on the Olympic biathlon podium for the first time.His last real chance in Vancouve...
WHISTLER, British Columbia (AP) — Ole Einar Bjoerndalen grabbed a giant Norwegian flag from a fan as he crossed the bridge leading to the stadium straightaway in the...
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