The Sochi predicament : contexts, characteristics and challenges of the Olympic Winter Games in 2014 / edited by Bo Petersson and Karina Vamling.

For a variety of political, climatic, ecological, security-related and other reasons, the Russian summer resort of Sochi by the Black Sea would seem a most unlikely candidate for the Olympic Winter Games. Despite this, the Games will be held there in February 2014, and the Russian leaders regard the...

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