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Beyond Sochi: AnOther View of the Winter Olympics

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Beyond Sochi
Beyond Sochi© Thomas Dworzak / Magnum Photos for National Geographic

The announcement in 2007 that the 2014 Winter Olympics would be held in Sochi was met with a near universal “where?” Smuggled down the Western side of Russia, on the coast of the Black Sea, Sochi was a quiet subtropical backwater hitherto frequented by Russians seeking sunshine on a budget. Fast-forward seven years, via a regeneration campaign costing an unprecedented $51 billion, terrorist threats from Muslim m...


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