The 2014 Winter Olympics, officially the XXII Olympic Winter Games, or the 22nd Winter Olympics, is a major international multi-sport event scheduled to be celebrated from 7 to 23 February 2014, in Sochi city, the Russian Federation with some events held in the resort town of Krasnaya Polyana. Both the Olympic and Paralympic Games are being organized by the Sochi Organizing Committee . The 2014 Winter Olympics are the first Olympics for the Russian Federation, as the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow were in the 'then' Soviet Union. read more