Sochi Stadium -Stadium Sochi -2014 Olympics and 2018 World Cup

SOCHI (STADIUM SOCHI). Capacity: 47,659 TBC. Also hosting the 2014 Winter Olympics, the Black Sea resort will enjoy four incredible years with the World Cup also coming to town. The stadium, to be used for both the Olympics and World Cup, will be located just 150 metres from the sea offering an incredible setting.

Sochi August 2010 Progress?

The organisers of the London 2012 Olympics may feel they have their work cut out, but Dmitry Chernyshenko - boss of the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics - is facing a mammoth task.

His team is having to help transform the Black Sea resort of Sochi, and its surrounding area, into a wintersports arena.

It means the construction of a new winter community in the North Caucasus mountains, the construction of 300 kilometres of roads, 100km of rail, 39 tunnels and 24 thermal and hydro power stations.

"We are well on track," asserts Mr Chernyshenko, a native of Sochi who was handed the games' baton five years ago.

"Our construction site is now probably competing in terms of size with London's," he says.

"It is a most challenging situation."

NHL Player may not participate in the 2014 Winter Hames

While Vancouver was a bonanza, the Sochi Games present bigger challenges — longer travel, the fatigue factor, and the possibility of injuries to the guys who lure ticket-buyers to NHL arenas.

The fact that the International Olympic Committee doesn’t throw even a dime back at the NHL is an impediment as well.

“I can understand,” two-time Olympic gold medallist Scott Niedermayer said this month. “The league has its investment in their players. They want them to remain healthy and on the ice playing for their teams to make money. It’s a business.

“A lot of times it doesn’t get said, but that’s the reality of it. Players are in it as a business to make money, the owners are in it for the same reason and that creates issues and concerns for everybody.”

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Sochi Logo

Commenting on the Sochi 2014 logo, Fred Burt, managing director of design agencySiegel+Gale London, said:

“I’m no fan of the London 2012 identity so it’s a relief to see Sochi 2014 restore some sanity. It feels fresh and up-to-date, promising a new Russia that perhaps the wider world does not know [think how Beijing benefitted in this regard].

“I’ll be interested to see how the URL plays out—has the system been designed to drop the ‘.ru’ in certain circumstances?

All Sochi Hotels to be Rated!

In this week’s government’s decision all tourism infrastructure in Russia – that includes hotels, ski resorts, beaches, and other tourist and recreational venues – will go through mandatory classification. And it will all start with hotels in Sochi.
Hotels in Russia are not in a hurry to get classified, as the procedure can be expensive, but the benefits are not always clear. Currently, only 5% of all Russia’s hotels went through classification. Meanwhile, Sochi’s commitement to the Olympics is 57 000 hotel rooms ranging two to five stars. Mandatory classification of all hotels will help to understand what is currently missing, what needs to be built.
How soon all this will start rolling wasn’t annouced.
On unrelated (well, related to hotels) news, Hilton will open Doubletree by Hilton Sochi-Adler hotel in the year 2012.