The 2014 Winter Olympics torch relay is being run from October 7, 2013, 123 days prior to the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics, until February 7, 2014, the day of the opening ceremony at Sochi. In Russia the relay travelled from Moscow to Sochi through 2,900 towns and villages across all 83 regions of Russia by foot, car, train, plane, and "troika" for over 65,000 km of journey. The event have become the longest relay in Winter Olympics history.
The lighting ceremony was held on September 29, 2013 at Olympia, Greece with Greek alpine skier Ioannis Antoniou as the first torchbearer. The first Russian torchbearer was NHL star Alex Ovechkin, who received the torch from Antoniou in Olympia.
The 2014 Olympic Torches were unveiled on January 14, 2013 in Moscow. The torch is stylish chrome with red detail, a traditional colour of Russian sports. It weighs nearly 1.8 kg.
It is memorable that on October 20, 2013, the torches reached the North Pole for first time via a nuclear-powered icebreaker 50 Let Pobedy. On November 6, 2013, the torch was flown into space by Soyuz rocket and brought back on November 11. The torches reached Europe's highest mountain, Mount Elbrus, and the depths of Siberia's Lake Baikal.
Sochi is a city in Krasnodar Krai, Russia, located on the Black Sea coast near the border between Georgia/Abkhazia and Russia. The Greater Sochi area sprawls for 145 kilometres along the shores of the Black Sea near the Caucasus Mountains. The area of the city proper is 176.77 square kilometres. According to the 2010 Census, the city had a permanent population of 343,334, making it Russia's largest resort city. It is one of the very few places in Russia with a subtropical climate, with warm to hot summers and mild winters.
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Awesome nature! We think the most striking picture is the one with people walking up the slopy snowy mountain.
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