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2014 Winter Olympics Closing Ceremony Flag Bearers
During the closing ceremony in Sochi, Russia most of the 88 nations competing selected one member of their delegation to be the flagbearer. Some countries for example, Morocco chose the same athlete (Adam Lamhamedi) as the opening ceremony. On the other hand, some countries such as Luxembourg Luxembourg ( ; lb, Lëtzebuerg ; french: link=no, Luxembourg; german: link=no, Luxemburg), officially the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, ; french: link=no, Grand-Duché de Luxembourg ; german: link=no, Großherzogtum Luxemburg is a small lan ... had already left the Olympic village, and therefore a volunteer carried the flags for those countries. Countries and flagbearers Below is a list of all parading countries with their announced flag bearer, sorted in the order in which they appeared in the parade. This is sortable by country name under which they entered, the flag bearer's name, or the flag bearer's sport. Names are given as were officially designated by the International Olympic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2014 Winter Olympics Closing Ceremony
The closing ceremony of the 2014 Winter Olympics was held on 23 February 2014 from 20:14 to 22:25 MSK (UTC+4) at the Fisht Olympic Stadium in Sochi, Russia. It was designed to show Russian culture, through a European perspective, and featured performances by Yuri Bashmet, Valery Gergiev, Denis Matsuev, Hibla Gerzmava, and Tatiana Samouil, among others. Program The closing program presented "Reflections of Russia"; that is, highlights of Russian culture, presented through a European perspective. It was directed by Daniele Finzi Pasca. Konstantin Ernst served as creative director and Andrei Nasonovskiy was the executive producer. Throughout the ceremony, sporting highlights of the Games were replayed on the screens of Fisht Stadium. A "forest" of 204 long LED light tubes changed color throughout and the audience was given LED necklaces that also changed colors periodically. Opening The closing ceremonies began with a countdown to the sounds of the 9th Movement of ''P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Suela Mëhilli
Suela Mëhilli (born January 28, 1994 in Vlorë, Albania) is an alpine skier from Albania. She competed for Albania at the 2014 Winter Olympics in the giant slalom competition. She was the first female athlete to represent the country at the Winter Olympics. In 2018 Mehilli and Erjon Tola Erjon Tola (born 15 December 1986) is an Albanian people, Albanian alpine skiing, alpine ski racer who represented Albania at the 2006 Winter Olympics, Albania at the 2006, Albania at the 2010 Winter Olympics, 2010, Albania at the 2014 Winter Oly ... represented Albania at the Winter Olympic Games in South Korea. It was his fourth and her second Olympics. See also * Albania at the 2014 Winter Olympics References External links * 1994 births Living people Albanian female alpine skiers Sportspeople from Vlorë Olympic alpine skiers for Albania Alpine skiers at the 2014 Winter Olympics Alpine skiers at the 2018 Winter Olympics {{Albania-alpine-skiing-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lizzy Yarnold
Elizabeth Anne Yarnold, OBE (born 31 October 1988) is a British former skeleton racer who joined the Great Britain national squad in 2010. With consecutive Olympic gold medals in 2014 and 2018, she is the most successful British Winter Olympian and the most successful Olympic skeleton athlete of all time from any nation. She won the 2013–14 Skeleton World Cup (only once finishing off the podium the whole season), followed by a gold in the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi. Yarnold was selected to be one of the two women skeleton drivers representing Team GB at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, and went on to become the first person to defend an Olympic gold in skeleton and the first British athlete to defend a Winter Olympic title. Yarnold set the track record for women's skeleton at the Olympic venue in the final heat of the race with a time of 51.46 seconds, beating Jacqueline Lölling's pre-Olympic record by nearly 1.3 seconds and her own first-heat record by 0.2 secon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Isadora Williams
Isadora Marie Williams (born 8 February 1996) is a Brazilian-American figure skater who represents Brazil in ladies' singles. She is the 2017 Sofia Trophy champion, the 2019 Toruń Cup silver medalist, the 2018 Volvo Open Cup silver medalist, the 2016 Santa Claus Cup silver medalist, and the 2016 Sportland Trophy silver medalist. She placed 30th at the 2014 Winter Olympics and 24th at the 2018 Winter Olympics. Williams is the first figure skater from Brazil to compete at the Olympics. Personal life Williams was born in Marietta, Georgia. Isadora was raised in the suburbs of Washington, DC. She has Brazilian citizenship through her mother, who is from Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, and also lived in Brazil for two years as a child. Isadora Williams also has a very large family that lives in Brazil, which she visits frequently. She attends Montclair State University in New Jersey. Career Isadora Williams began skating at the age of 5 falling in love with the sport while skati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Žana Novaković
Žana Novaković ( sr-cyrl, Жана Новаковић; born June 24, 1985) is a female alpine skier from Bosnia and Herzegovina who competed for Bosnia and Herzegovina at the 2010 Winter Olympics. She carried her nation's flag at the 2010 Winter Olympics opening ceremony. She also competed at FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 2011 The FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 2011 were the 41st FIS Alpine World Ski Championships, held 7–20 February in Germany at Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Bavaria. These were the second alpine world championships in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, whic .... World Cup results Results per discipline World Championship results Olympic results References Alpine skiers at the 2010 Winter Olympics 1985 births Living people Serbs of Bosnia and Herzegovina Olympic alpine skiers of Bosnia and Herzegovina Bosnia and Herzegovina female alpine skiers Alpine skiers at the 2014 Winter Olympics {{BosniaHerzegovina-alpine-skiing-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nikola Chongarov
Nikola Chongarov ( bg, Никола Чонгаров, born 20 September 1989 in Varna, Bulgaria) is a former alpine, current ski cross skier from Bulgaria. He competed for Bulgaria at the 2014 Winter Olympics in all five alpine skiing events. Chongarov competed FIS Alpine Ski World Cup between 2009-2014. Since 2016 he competed FIS Freestyle Ski World Cup The FIS Freestyle Ski World Cup is an annual freestyle skiing competition arranged by the International Ski Federation since 1980. Currently six disciplines are included in world cup: moguls, aerials, ski cross, halfpipe, slopestyle and big air. .... World Cup results Alpine skiing Season standings Results per discipline Freestyle skiing Results per discipline World Championship results Alpine skiing World Championship results Freestyle skiing Olympic results References 1989 births Living people Bulgarian male alpine skiers Alpine skiers at the 2014 Winter Olympics Olympic alpine skiers for Bulgaria S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Speed Skating At The 2014 Winter Olympics
Speed skating at the 2014 Winter Olympics was held at the Adler Arena, Sochi, Russia, between 8 and 22 February 2014. Competition schedule The following is the competition schedule for all twelve events. With the exception of the Team pursuit events, all rounds of each event were concluded within a single session. All times are (UTC+4). Medal summary Netherlands dominated in speed skating, winning a total of 23 medals including eight out of the twelve gold medals and medals in all events. There were four Dutch podium sweeps where the Netherlands won the gold, silver and bronze medal, making the Netherlands the first country in Olympic speed skating history to achieve this. The events were the: Men's 5000m, Men's 500m, Women's 1500m and Men's 10,000m. In the women's 1,500 metres, Dutch athletes placed 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th; the first such result in Olympic speed skating history by athletes from a single nation. On 24 November 2017 the silver medal of Olga Fatkulina was di ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bart Swings
Bart Swings (born 12 February 1991) is a Belgian long track speed skater and inline speed skater. He is the 2022 Olympic champion on the speed skating mass start. Swings won Belgium's first gold medal in 74 years and is the first Belgian athlete ever to have won two medals in the Winter Olympics. Career At his first world championship speed skating event, the 2011 World Single Distance Speed Skating Championships in Inzell, Germany, he finished 17th in the 5000 m. At the 2012 World Allround Speed Skating Championships in Moscow, he finished 9th overall, with a personal record at the 500 m and a national record at the 1500 m. At the 2013 World Allround Speed Skating Championships in Hamar, he finished 3rd overall and took the Bronze medal back home to Belgium. At the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, he won a silver medal in the 1st ever Mass start at the Winter Olympics. Four years later, he won the gold medal in this event. It was Belgium's second-ever gold medal in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Darya Domracheva
Darya Uladzimirauna Domracheva ( be, Дар’я Уладзіміраўна Домрачэва; born 3 August 1986) is a retired Belarusian biathlete and coach who competed in the Biathlon World Cup from 2006 to 2018. She won a gold medal in the 4×6 km relay and a silver medal in the mass start competition at the 2018 Winter Olympics, three gold medals in the pursuit, individual, and mass start competitions at the 2014 Winter Olympics, and a bronze medal in the individual competition at the 2010 Winter Olympics. She was a Biathlon World Cup overall winner for the 2014–15 season. Career Domracheva started her sports career with cross-country skiing in 1992 but switched to biathlon in 1999. She originally represented Russia at the junior level but received an offer to transfer to Belarus in 2004. She joined Belarus’ national biathlon team in 2006. Domracheva won sprint and pursuit at the 2005 IBU Youth and Junior World Championships in Kontiolahti (Finland). She finished ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Crook
Peter Crook (born January 9, 1993 in Tortola, British Virgin Islands) is a British Virgin Islands, British Virgin Islander freestyle skiing, freestyle skier who has competed since 2009 in the halfpipe discipline. Crook has qualified to compete for the British Virgin Islands at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, becoming the second ever Winter Olympian to represent the country. Crook and his family moved to Wisconsin, United States in 2001, where he picked up skiing. In 2008, he moved to Colorado and became a professional freestyle skier. See also *British Virgin Islands at the 2014 Winter Olympics References 1993 births Living people Freestyle skiers at the 2014 Winter Olympics Olympic freestyle skiers of the British Virgin Islands British Virgin Islands freestyle skiers British Virgin Islands male skiers {{BritishVirginIslands-sport-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arman Serebrakian
Arman Serebrakian (born 9 April 1987) is an Armenian alpine skier. He was born in California, United States. He competed at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, in giant slalom and slalom for Armenia Armenia (), , group=pron officially the Republic of Armenia,, is a landlocked country in the Armenian Highlands of Western Asia.The UNbr>classification of world regions places Armenia in Western Asia; the CIA World Factbook , , and ''Ox ..., and was the flag bearer for Armenia during the Sochi Olympics Closing Ceremonies. References External links * 1987 births Living people Alpine skiers at the 2014 Winter Olympics Armenian male alpine skiers Olympic alpine skiers for Armenia {{Armenia-alpine-skiing-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sebastiano Gastaldi
Sebastiano Gastaldi (born 12 June 1991 in Piove di Sacco) is an alpine skier from Argentina. He competed for Argentina at the 2014 Winter Olympics in the slalom and giant slalom. He competed at the 2018 Winter Olympics , nations = 93 , athletes = 2,922 (1,680 men and 1,242 women) , events = 102 in 7 sports (15 disciplines) , opening = , closing = , opened_by = President Moon Jae-in , cauldron = Kim Yun-a , stadium = Pyeongchang Olympic Stadium , winte ... in the men's giant slalom. His sister is also a skier, Nicol Gastaldi. References External links * 1991 births Living people Argentine male alpine skiers Olympic alpine skiers for Argentina Alpine skiers at the 2014 Winter Olympics Alpine skiers at the 2018 Winter Olympics Italian emigrants to Argentina Sportspeople from the Province of Padua Skiers from Veneto {{Argentina-alpine-skiing-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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