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Kontinental Hockey League To Break Two Weeks Ahead Of 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics06 / 18 / 13Kontinental Hockey League VP Vladimir Shalaev said that the league "will halt next season's schedule a full two weeks before the start of the Sochi 2014 Olympics hockey tournament," according to R-SPORT. The 52-game season, which starts on Sept. 4 in Moscow, will break on Jan. 30, and resume on Feb.... |
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KHL Looks To Expand Westward
Kontinental Hockey League President Alexander Medvedev said that the league "is set to expand its presence into Western Europe by accepting new members in the near future," according to the AFP. Medvedev said that the Russian-led league, which already includes teams from the former Soviet Union as w ...
Skeleton Managers Have Sochi Concerns
Sochi 2014 Games organizers “have narrowly avoided a boycott of the skeleton World Cup event by teams unhappy with the quality of the ice track at the Sanki Sliding Centre,” according to Nicole Jeffery of THE AUSTRALIAN. Team managers “threatened to withdraw their teams from the c ...
Putin Fires Russian Olympic Committee VP
Russian President Vladimir Putin has fired Akhmed Bilalov, a senior official on the Russian Olympic Committee, "because of delays in construction work for the 2014 Winter Games," which begin in one year, according to Ilya Arkhipov of BLOOMBERG. Deputy PM Dmitry Kozak said that Bilalov will be dismis ...
Group Claims Sochi Workers Exploited
A human rights group said that migrant workers helping Russia prepare for the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi are "being cheated out of wages and denied adequate rest, food and housing," according to Sonia Elks of REUTERS. A senior Russian official said that the accusations by N.Y.-based Human Rights ...
European Senior Tour To Visit Russia
The European Senior Tour will return to Russia for the first time since '08 when the Russian Open Golf Championship takes place Sept. 13-15 at the Moscow Country Club. The three-year agreement will see the event carry a prize fund of $850,000 and will be promoted by the Main Administration for Servi ...
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Ecclestone: F1 Schedule To Stay At 19
F1 CEO Bernie Ecclestone confirmed that a 20th grand prix "will not be added to the Formula One calendar this year," according to Gary Meenaghan of THE NATIONAL. Ecclestone, however, did say he is certain the schedule will return to its full capacity in '14 after he was left "very impressed" by prog ...
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Winter Olympics Host Lacking Snow
The next host of the Winter Games, Sochi, is "struggling with a lack of snow as it prepares to stage test events for the Games over the next three weeks," just one year before the Games begin, according to Nicole Jeffery of THE AUSTRALIAN. The Sochi organizing committee announced Monday it was cance ...
Russia On Track For Sochi GP
Russia President Vladimir Putin told F1 CEO Bernie Ecclestone that the country "is ready to host the Formula One Grand Prix in Sochi after it holds the Winter Olympic Games in the southern Black Sea city" in '14, according to the AFP. Putin "has already agreed with Ecclestone" to hold F1 races at a ...
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Russia Spent More Than $36B On Games
Documents prepared for a first meeting of the state commission responsible for preparing for the 2014 Winter Olympic Games revealed that Russia spent 1.1T rubles ($36.7B) "on preparatory events" for the Sochi Games by the start of '13, according to the IANS. Investors spent 737B rubles ($24.6B) of t ...
Sochi Agrees To Licensing Agreement
The Sochi 2014 Organizing Committee has entered into a licensing agreement with Russian grocery market X5 Retail Group. Under the agreement, X5 will become an official Sochi 2014 Organizing Committee retail sales operator. The sales of the Sochi 2014 licensed merchandise will be organized in 45 Russ ...
