News and press-releases

Lessons on Olympic and Paralympic values and the history of Olympic Mascots were today held in schools across the Russia to mark the start of the Sochi 2014 Mascot competition.

On 1 September 2010, the Sochi 2014 Organising Committee will open a Russian national competition to design a Mascot for the 2014 Sochi Olympic and Paralympic Games.

The Sochi 2014 Organizing Committee and the Publishing and Trading Centre “Marka” have today signed a licensing agreement which grants “Marka” the right to issue post and philatelic items with the Sochi 2014 emblem.

The Sochi 2014 Organising Committee has announced the start of the Russian national "Olympic Teacher" competition 2010.

Theodore Oben, head of the Outreach Unit at the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), today praised Sochi 2014’s leadership in environmental protection, highlighting that he has “a strong feeling that Sochi 2014 will be successful” in environmental protection.

The Russian delegation, headed by Alexander Zhukov, President of the Russian Olympic Committee, has visited the Olympic Village on the opening day of the First Youth Olympic Games in Singapore.

Russia will be represented by a strong team of 124 athletes at the first Youth Olympic Games, which opens tomorrow in Singapore.

The Hydrometcentre of Russia has begun the trial operation of two environmental observation centres in the construction zone of the Olympic park in the Imeretinskaya Valley.

The “Sport in the Name of the World” festival has been held at the all-Russian children’s centre “Orlyonok” (“Eaglet”). Guests at “Eaglet” included the bobsleigh Olympic silver and bronze medallist, Sochi 2014 Ambassador, honoured Russian master of sport and three-time world champion in arm-wrestling, Alexey Voevoda.