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The 2010 Winter Olympics were declared closed...
in organizing the Sochi Olympics have visited the Games in Vancouver. Dmitry Chernyshenko, the head of organizing committee for the Sochi Games, said he would take the Canadian experience into account while organizing the 2014 Olympics.Pointing to a horrific accident which claimed the life of Georgian luger Nodar Kumaritashvili during a training run hours before the start of the Games, the organizers of the Sochi Olympics pledged to take efforts to assure the security of the athletes.
Chernyshenko also pledged to create in Sochi "the same unique atmosphere" as in Vancouver, "although it will be slightly different, in the Russian style."
MOSCOW, March 1 (RIA Novosti)
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