Thursday, February 6, 2014

Winter Olympics 2014: Day of Reckoning Arrives for Vladimir Putin's £31bn Sochi Extravaganza

At the Independent UK.

Sochi is "Putin's plan --- one that began when he made the journey to Guatemala seven years ago to address the International Olympic Committee and persuade them to bring the first Olympic Games to post-Soviet Russia. Since the Second World War there has never been such a close identification of an Olympics with an individual leader."

And it's not going well, especially "around the edges."

More at Twitchy, "‘Dangerous face water’: Journos in Sochi live-tweet hilarious and freaky ‘amenities’ [pics]," and "‘WTF is that last one?!’ Viral image of Sochi bathroom rules is delightfully baffling [pic]."

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