2014 Sochi facts

While investigating facts about 2014 Sochi, I found out little known, but curios details like:

There's a subway ticket machine in Moscow that accepts 30 squats as payment. Installed ahead of the 2014 Sochi Olympics to "bring sports to the people".

During the 2014 Sochi Olympics, Russians got free passes on the Moscow subway system if they did 30 squats in front of a motion sensor

In my opinion, it is useful to put together a list of the most interesting details from trusted sources that I've come across. Here are 11 of the best facts about 2014 Sochi I managed to collect.

1. In preparing for the 2014 Sochi Olympics, the Canadian women's hockey team (who are the best women's hockey team in the world) practiced in the Alberta AAA Midget league (15-16 year old boys). They finished dead last.

2. The 2014 Women's US Olympic Ice Hockey team played 4 Highschool Varsity Boys Ice Hockey teams in preparation for the Sochi Olympics... and they went 2-2.

3. Oleg Deripaska one of Russia's wealthiest businessmen who saved thousands of dogs from being killed for 2014's Sochi Olympics because of 'improvements'

4. The internet community surrounding a joke crypto currency "Dogecoin" raised $50,000 to help the 2014 Jamaican Olympic Bobsled Team travel to Sochi for the winter games.

5. About Japans "Beethoven", the celebrated deaf composer whose symphony "Hiroshima" became an anthem for Hiroshima survivors, composed soundtracks for Resident Evil, and a theme for the Sochi Olympics. In 2014 he was outed as a fraud: was not even deaf, a did not write any of his famous works.

6. The most workers killed in the lead up to major global sporting event were the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics with 60 people killed, the 2004 Athens Olympics with 40 killed, and the 2022 World Cup in Qatar with approximately 1,200 killed.

7. The Olympic flame went over the North Pole onboard a nuclear icebreaker in 2014 on the way to Sochi

8. Dogecoin helped finance the Jamaican bobsled team's trip to the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi

9. Russian Interior Ministry police choir sang Daft Punk's 'Get Lucky' in the opening cermony in sochi winter olympics in 2014.