Today starts the Winter Olympics at Sochi in Russia, this will be the first Olympics in Russia since the breakup of the USSR in 1991, a perfect time to gather the whole family and support your favorite athletes.
The torch relay for this Olympics will be the longest torch relay in the Olympics history, a 40,000-mile route that will pass through all regions of the country.
98 events in 15 winter sport disciplines will be held throughout the Games. A number of new competitions will be held during the Games, including biathlon mixed relay, women's ski jumping, mixed-team figure skating, mixed-team luge, half-pipe skiing, ski and snowboard slope style, and snowboard parallel slalom. The events will be held around two clusters of new venues; an Olympic Park was constructed in Sochi's Imeretinsky Valley on the coast of the Black Sea, with Fisht Olympic Stadium and the Games' indoor venues located within walking distance, and snow events will be held at Krasnaya Polyana. A record 88 nations have qualified to compete, which beats the previous record of 82 set at the last Winter Olympics in Vancouver.
We wish luck to all of the athletes competing, and hope that this is a new chance to reunite all the nations once again.
