THE 2014 WINTER OLYMPIC GAMES IN SOCHI, RUSSIA

Sochi, Russia used to be a sleepy sub-tropical resort town.  President Vladimir Putin wants to make a glittering multi-national resort town out of the sleepy Sochi, Russia.  This is a town within Sochi, Russia called Krasnaya Polyana along it's main road before...

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Part of the 2014 Winter Olympic Games in Sochi, Russia is building the Olympic Village for Olympic Athletes to live in.  And as the Gentle Reader and I wait for the opening ceremony of the 2014 Winter Olympic Games of Sochi, Russia to begin, let's observe what Olympic Games Athletes does with their spare time.

United States speed skater Anna Ringsred

Eating at the Olympic Village Dining Hall

International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach eats at the Olympic Village Dinning Hall.  Holding the 2014 WinterOlympic Games in Sochi, Russia was a proud moment in his life which he has no apologies about.

 

United States of America Bobsledding team member Johnny Quinn accidently locks himself inside the bathroom impersonates the Incredible Hulk in a successful effort to escape from the Russian Hotel Room bathroom.  Oh yeah, he also needs to pay for the damage caused.  They don't make Russian Hotel Room bathroom doors like they used to.

Johnny Quinn, the Russian Hotel Room bathroom door slayer

Paula Walker of the Great Britain Bobsleigh team inside the Dormitories for British Athletes in the Olympic Village

Dormitories for Canadian Athletes in the Olympic Village

Canadian speed skater Mathieu Giroux exercises at the Dormitories for Canadian Athletes in the Olympic Village

 

Dormitories for Swiss Athletes at the Olympic Village.  At forty-seven degrees, it's warm enough to clean the outdoor swimming pool for Olympic Athletes use.

Dormitories for Austrian Athletes in the Olympic Village

Dormitories for Netherlands Athletes in the Olympic Village

Austrian alpine skiers Georg Streitberger, Romed Baumann, Max Franz and Klaus Kroell

The Game Room at the Olympic Village is visited by Austrian alpine skier Romed Baumann and Max Franz

Austrian alpine skier Max Franz inside the game room at the Olympic Village

 Ice hockey players Julia Zorn and Susanne Fellner of Germany

Speed skaters Nico Ihle (L) and Alexej Baumgartner of Germany at the Dormitories for German Athletes at the Olympic Village

Dutch Athletes enjoying some rest and recreation

Moving into a dormitory room at the Olympic Village.  Somebody will be living here for the next two weeks.

  Speed skating coach Andrey Saveliev of Russia

Ryan Stassel of the United States of America snowboards past a giant Russian doll on the Freestyle Snowboard Course

 

Gjermund Braaten of Norway snowboards past a giant Russian doll on the Freestyle Snowboard Course

Seppe Smits of Belgium snowboards past a giant Russian doll on the Freestyle Snowboard Course

Sven Kotsenburg of Sweden snowboards past a giant Russian doll on the Freestyle Snowboard Course

Gjermund Braaten of Norway snowboards past a giant Russian doll on the Freestyle Snowboard Course

The Opening Ceremony for the 2014 Winter Olympic Games in Soche, Russia

Russian President (for life?) Vladimir Putin in the audience.  International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach is standing left of Russian President Vladimir Putin.

 

Russian Prime Minister (And former President) of Russia Dmitry Medvedev fell asleep during the Opening Ceremony for the 2014 Winter Olympic Games.  Hey, being Prime Minister is hard work.  Russian Prime Minister (And Former President) Dmitry Medvedev is bound to fall asleep from time to time while watching the Opening Ceremony for the 2014 Winter Olympic Games.

The hammer and sickle (The symbol of Communism) makes an obvious appearance in Communism's country of birth

 

The Russian Communism Revolution is made to be heroic

A metaphor for Capitalism?

The human Russian flag will illuminate the way to happiness is the message

 

  Russia gets a safe for children remake

 

 

Dancers are illuminated with light

 

Driving a car into the stadium

 Trains fly in Soche, Russia

Ghost horses fly in Soche, Russia too

 The entire book War and Peace written by Leo Tolstoy performed as a ballet

Tennis playing athlete Maria Sharapova was raised in Sochi, Russia before defecting to the United States of America.  Here her defection is forgiven and never punished.  In fact, Maria Sharapova got a heroine welcome when she is allowed to carry the Olympic Torch to the Olympic Cauldron.

Meanwhile, Maria Alekhina and Nadya Tolokonnikova who were famously arrested and jailed for performing a punk rock song protesting against President Vladimir Putin inside a Russian Orthodox Church were fired by the all female punk rock collective Pussy Riot for violating Pussy Riot's code of honor involving in their own words "feminism, separatist resistance, fight against authoritarianism and personality cult."  Maria Alekhina and Nadya Tolokonnikova only crime in that regard was hanging out with Madonna Ciccone at an Amnesty International sponsored rock concert.

I guess that other members of the Russian exclusive all female Pussy Riot rock band collective isn't fans of the Material Girl.