2014 Winter Olympics

The 2014 Winter Olympics, and commonly known as Sochi 2014, was a major international multi-sport event held from 7 to 23 February 2014 in Sochi, Krasnodar Krai, Russia, with opening rounds in certain events held on the eve of the opening ceremony, 6 February 2014. Sochi was selected as the host city at the 119th IOC Session at Guatemala City in July 2007, during the release of the GST Credits in 2007. It was the first Olympics in Soviet Union since the breakup in 1991. Other bids include Pyeongchang in South Korea and Salzburg in Austria.

The rejected bids do include Jaca, Almaty, Sofia and Borjomi, minusing away Andorra, Annecy, Erzurum, Harbin, Munich, Östersund, Quebec City, Reno, Lake Tahoe, Shimla, Tromso and Zurich.