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The southern Russian resort city on the Black Sea won the right to host
the Olympics at an IOC session in Guatemala in July 2007 after a close
race with South Korea's Pyeongchang and Austria's Salzburg. More than 200 sports and infrastructural facilities are to be built in
Sochi by the time of the 2014 Winter Games. The cost of building the
facilities and infrastructure is estimated at more than $30 billion.
With the Sochi Winter Olympics less than a year away, it remains an open question whether the world’s greatest ice hockey players will compete in what will arguably be the centerpiece of the games on the shores of the Black Sea.
Russia staged a rousing 4-3 win over the United States in their opening game of the under-18 world hockey championships in Sochi.
President Vladimir Putin called the bombings at the Boston Marathon a “heinous crime” during a public address before Russia played the United States at the under-18 world hockey championships on Thursday.
TOMSK, Russia, April 18 (R-Sport) - Supporters of second-tier side FC Tom Tomsk are trying to improve the bruised and battered image of Russian football fans by raising the money to pay off fines for misbehavior themselves.
Kabul's Olympic Stadium hosted a football game between Soviet veterans of the Afghan war (the Shuravi) and the Afghan team which is made up of football enthusiasts - including several Mujahedeen who fought the Soviets in the 1980s.
Two teams comprising people who last faced each other on the battlefield, during the Soviet Union’s invasion of Afghanistan 1979-1989, will clash Thursday – this time, on the football pitch.
Dynamo Moscow was crowned Gagarin Cup champions Wednesday, stunning Traktor Chelyabinsk with a 3-2 game six overtime win.
Sochi 2014 organizers have issued unequivocal security assurances in the wake of the deadly Boston Marathon bombings, with the chief organizer promising the safest Games in history.1
Russia's Far Eastern port city of Vladivostok, which is striving to join the expanding KHL hockey league, is to open a KHL-standard arena by the fall, the region's governor said Wednesday.
The Russian Athletics Federation said Tuesday it has banned a pole vaulter for two years after he tested positive for steroids.
Russia's Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova said Tuesday she was happy with her new coach, former world No. 1 Martina Hingis.
Moscow will heighten security for this summer's world athletics championships following the deadly Boston Marathon blasts, a sports official told R-Sport on Tuesday.
Russia powered into the semifinals of the sledge hockey world championships on Tuesday with a 1-0 defeat of Italy.
Russian-born Tatyana McFadden won the women’s wheelchair race at the storied Boston Marathon Monday for the second year in a row, firmly establishing herself as one of the best wheelchair distance racers in the world.
Five-time Grand Slam champion Martina Hingis is to coach Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova, the Russian announced Monday.
London 2012 may still be fresh in the memory, but Russian swimmer Nikita Lobintsev already has his sights set on the next Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro.
Roberta Vinci bumped Maria Kirilenko from the world No. 12 spot in new rankings Monday after the Italian won the Katowice Open over the weekend.
Russian energy giant Gazprom is to become the title sponsor of a multi-nation league known as the South East Handball Association, the Russian Handball Union reported Sunday.