The 2014 Winter Olympics, officially known as the XXII Olympic Winter Games, is an international winter multiple sports event that will be celebrated from February 7 to February 23, 2014. The host city, Sochi, Russia, was elected on July 4, 2007, during the 119th International Olympic Committee (IOC) Session in Guatemala City, Guatemala. This will be Russia's first time hosting the Winter Olympics (the Soviet Union had previously hosted the 1980 Summer Games in Moscow). As well, this will become the first Winter Olympics ever held in the subtropics.

Monday, March 12, 2007

Putin Signs Olympic Law (ITAR-TASS)

Russian President Vladimir Putin signed the federal law on the organization and hosting of the XXII Olympic Winter Games and the XI Paralympic Winter Games in 2014 in Sochi, the development of Sochi as Mountain Climatic Resort and amendments to some legislative acts of the Russian Federation, the presidential press service reported on Monday.

The law was approved by the State Duma on November 16, 2007, and by the Federation Council on November 23, 2007.
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