Austrian Nordic skier Johannes Duerr has apologised for taking performance enhancing drugs ahead of competing in the Sochi Winter Games, the exposure of which resulted in him being kicked off the Olympic team and called a "scoundrel" by colleagues.

These days, best athletes of the World come to Sochi to take part in the main event of the last four years.

Canadian snowboarder, Maelle Ricker, expected to medal at the Sochi Olympics, has been sidelined by a wrist injury.

Switzerland is taking its biggest ever team to a Winter Olympics, sending 163 athletes to Sochi — including all five of its gold medalists from 2010.

Sochi Olympic medals passed the tests, holding up over “extreme differentials in temperatures,” eight tons of weight and even dips in champagne.

IOC President Thomas Bach defended the choice of Sochi as host of the Winter Olympics on Monday and said he’s “sleeping very well” despite the terror threat hanging over the games.

Triple Olympic gold medal-winning ski jumper Thomas Morgenstern was included in Austria’s Olympic squad Monday, despite being hurt in a terrifying crash this month.

For the first time in the History of the Olympics the Games will be broadcasted in a digital format Super High-Vision which is 16-times clearer than HDTV and in multi-channel sound system 22.2.

KITZBUEHEL, Austria – In a rather surprising turnaround of events, Didier Defago became the winner of the 2014 Kitzbuehel super-G.

Eric Frenzel has also claimed the victory in the last Individual Gundersen competition before the Olympic Winter Games in Sochi.