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Here is your first look at the Sochi 2014 medals for next year’s Winter Olympics. The ‘patchwork quilt’ design is meant to represent the different regions of Russia. Are you a fan?
AWKKKWARDDD. Russia lost to France at hockey worlds on Thursday. You know, the Russia that has a mix of KHL and NHL players. The defending champions. The hosts of next year’s Olympics. And the France that has one NHL player while the rest of the team plays in the French league? Those guys. They won. (Photos: Heikki Saukkomaa/AP; Martin Rose/Bongarts/Getty Images)
OUT OF THE BLUE: Team Russia 2 performs during the free skating competition at the World Synchronized Skating Championships in Boston. (Photo: Jared Wickerham/Getty Images)
FANCY! Maria Sharapova attended the Vanity Fair Oscar Party last night. (Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images)
Mike Riddle of Sherwood Park, Alta., jumps into the lights and snow to a third place finish in ski halfpipe at an FIS freestyle World Cup and Sochi Olympics test event in Rosa Khutor, Russia, Saturday, Feb. 16, 2013. (Photo: Mike Ridewood/The Canadian Press)
A year before the 2014 Winter Olympics are to begin, President Vladimir Putin has demanded that a senior member of the Russian Olympic Committee be fired, apparently due to cost overruns in host city Sochi.
The current price tag for the Sochi Games is US$51-billion, which would make them the most expensive games in the history of the Olympics – more costly even than the much-larger Summer Olympics held in London and Beijing.
During his tour of Olympic venues, Putin fumed when he heard that the cost of the ski jump had soared from US$40-million to US$265-million and the project was behind schedule.
“So a vice president of the Olympic Committee is dragging down the entire construction? Well done! You are doing a good job,” Putin said Wednesday, seething with sarcasm. (Photo: SERGEI KARPUKHIN/AFP/Getty Images)
Upside down: Aliona Savchenko and Robin Szolkowy of Russia perform during their pairs short program during European Figure Skating Championship in Zagreb, on January 23, 2013. They placed second. (Photo: HRVOJE POLAN/AFP/Getty Images)
Great shirt, or greatest shirt? Washington Capitals player Alex Ovechkin was sporting a funny shirt, when he met the media on Tuesday in Arlington, Va., which asked ‘Am I really the prettiest one here, again?’ (Photo: Pablo Martinez Monsivais/The Associated Press)
Canada leaves world juniors without a medal after overtime loss to Russia http://natpo.st/WuvJnW (Photo: Nathan Denette/The Canadian Press)
No gold: While you were sleeping (we assume), Canada lost 5-1 to the U.S. in the world junior semi-final and are now left playing for bronze. Photo: Nathan Denette/The Canadian Press
