Russia estimated the Sochi games would cost $12 billion ... Ultimately, the city lost $3.2 million hosting the Olympics. Today, its Olympic Village is used to house refugees.

Even so, the Sochi Olympics have cost more than any games ... Just a few years ago this was a humble skiing village of a few thousand people, its innocence guarded by the local off-piste crowd ...

Before its selection to host the 2014 Winter Olympic Games, which start in February, Sochi was unknown to most people outside of Russia. That anonymity led photographer Rob Hornstra and writer ...

Fasel made the comments to Around the Rings on Tuesday at the Sochi Olympic Village. He declined to make a prediction about which team might win gold, saying there are as many as five legitimate ...

BR>BR>He says the proposed mountain sub-village for athletes and the Russian ... their concerns and suggestions for changes to the Sochi Olympic bid in a 50-minute presentation to the IOC ...

The 2014 Sochi Winter Games went over its $10 billion ... "These days they require about 35 different athletic venues, they require an Olympic Village that could cost 1 1/2, 2, 3 billion dollars ...

OSLO, February 12. /ITAR-TASS/. Esten Saether - editor of the Oslo-based Dagbladet newspaper, has expressed the opinion that the 2014 Sochi Olympics have proved to be a symbol of Russia's economic ...

CORTINA D'AMPEZZO, Italy (AP) — In Sochi, workers were still hammering away in the media village and shower water ... vice president of the International Olympic Committee.