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Medals for Winter Games arrive in Sochi
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Sochi - 5 Feb 2014
1. Various of officials showing medals to media
Burst of fireworks marks the moment Putin declares Olympics open
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Sochi - 7 Feb 2014
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2. Wide of Olympic stadium with fireworks marking the moment Russian President Vladimir Putin declared Games open
Russian President visits US House at Winter Olympic Games
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Sochi - 14 Feb 2014
3. Pan of Russian President Vladimir Putin entering the US Olympic Headquarters at the Olympic Games compound in Sochi )
4. Close of Putin
5. Mid of Putin talking with US and Russian sport officials, US Olympic Committee CEO Scott Blackmun in red jacket
6. Mid of Putin and Larry Probst, President of the US Olympic Committee
Pussy Riot and their supporters attacked by Cossack militia CONTAINS PROFANITIES
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Sochi, 19 Feb 2014
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7. Mid tracking shot of Pussy Riot band members Nadezhda Tolokonnikova (yellow tights) and Maria Alekhina (blue tights) together with other activists walking along embankment toward water for a protest
8. Various of Pussy Riot band members putting on masks and starting to perform, UPSOUND (Russian): "Putin will teach you to love the Motherland", cossacks attacking them with spray and beating them with whip, more cossacks taking their masks off
9. Various of cossacks holding Pussy Riot band members, one Cossack throws Tolokonnikova on ground, another whips her, Sochi 2014 banner in background, UPSOUND (Russian): "Yes, Putin will teach us"
Sochi's twin toilets are not confined to the mountaintop sports centre
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Sochi - 1 Feb 2014
10. Mid of Sochi 2014 flags
11. Mobile phone video showing two toilets side by side, in women's toilet
12. SOUNDBITE (English) vox pop, Turkish Photographer (no name given):
" For me it's different, let's say. I am not used to it."
STORYLINE:
On February 5th 2014 the official Olympic medals arrived in the Russian resort town of Sochi, ahead of the start of the Winter Games.
All 1,254 medals were made by the Moscow-based Adamas jewelry company and designed in metal and glass.
Mountain Olympic Village mayor and Olympic champion, Svetlana Zhurova, on Wednesday said the medals are "beautiful, they are wonderful, and they are very much our own."
3,500 athletes will compete for the Sochi 2014 Olympic and Paralympic medals.
The Winter Games run through February 23.
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A burst of fireworks filled the night sky over Sochi on February 7th as Russian President Vladimir Putin declared the Winter Olympics open.
More than with most games, these Olympics are closely tied to the leader of the host nation.
Putin personally pushed for the right to stage them in the Black Sea summer resort of Sochi and the nearby Caucasus Mountains slopes.
He then spent 51 billion US dollars to transform Sochi into a winter sports paradise, in a project fraught with corruption, environmental abuses and fears of militant extremism from nearby Chechnya and Dagestan.
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In a powerful symbol of international sports detente, Russian President Vladimir Putin dropped in on US Olympic headquarters on February 14th to chat about the Winter Games and the upcoming Russia-US Hockey showdown.
He even wore a red Team USA pin on his lapel.
Putin spent about half an hour at USA House in Sochi's Olympic Park, sitting on a couch talking with US Olympic Committee chairman Larry Probst and CEO Scott Blackmun.
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