Text 4. Future Olympics - 2014

The 2014 Winter Olympics, officially known as the XXII Olympic Winter Games, is an international winter multiple sports event that will be celebrated from February 7 to February 23, 2014. The host city, Sochi, Russia, was elected on July 4, 2007, during the 119^th International Olympic Committee (IOC) Session in Guatemala City, Guatemala.

This will be Russia’s first time hosting the Winter Olympic (the Soviet Union had previously hosted the 1980 Summer Games in Moscow). As well, this will become the first Winter Olympics ever held in the subtropics.