So... I couldn't place Sochi on a map with 50 tries and a gun to my head. I started looking into the hosts of the next Winter Olympics amid all the criticisms of just about everything Vancouver and Canada did from the Russians, I wanted to see how they might do hosting an Olympic Games.
Well, turns out Sochi is on the Black Sea and is Russia's unofficial summer capital. It's a balmy 17 degC there today and should drop all the way down to 11 by Thursday. Our athletes will be able to keep cool by shading themselves under one of the many palm trees in the area.
They also have not a single sports facility for these games built and will have to build everything including a transit system from scratch.
Should be interesting to follow the construction process as we get closer to 2014. Hopefully, they get their s together and we can go over and pwn the odium again.
Sochi has a humid subtropical climate (Koppen climate classificationCfa) at the lower elevations, with an average January temperature of 6 °C (42.8 °F) and winter temperatures rarely falling below freezing. The average summer high temperature ranges between 25 °C (77 °F) and 28 °C (82.4 °F) with occasional extreme heat in some interior locations exceeding 40 °C (104 °F). Average annual precipitation is about 1,500 mm.[9][10][11] Sochi lies at 8b/9a hardiness zone, so the city supports different types of palm trees. Sochi is situated on the same latitude as Nice but strong cold winds from Asia makes winter less warm. In fact, temperatures drop below zero every winter for one or two days. The last year of first 2000 decade was one of the warmest in the history of Sochi. Mean year temperature was about 14.7 °C.
Hopefully they do a good job. Seems kind of strange to hold the winter olympics in a sub tropical location though. Although, I am sure stranger things have happened.
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Hopefully they do a good job. Seems kind of strange to hold the winter olympics in a sub tropical location though. Although, I am sure stranger things have happened.
It will definitely be tough for them to host the winter Olympics if their winter temperatures rarely fall below freezing. Think about all the Olympians that complained about the warm conditions this year
So... I couldn't place Sochi on a map with 50 tries and a gun to my head. I started looking into the hosts of the next Winter Olympics amid all the criticisms of just about everything Vancouver and Canada did from the Russians, I wanted to see how they might do hosting an Olympic Games.
Well, turns out Sochi is on the Black Sea and is Russia's unofficial summer capital. It's a balmy 17 degC there today and should drop all the way down to 11 by Thursday. Our athletes will be able to keep cool by shading themselves under one of the many palm trees in the area.
They also have not a single sports facility for these games built and will have to build everything including a transit system from scratch.
Should be interesting to follow the construction process as we get closer to 2014. Hopefully, they get their s together and we can go over and pwn the odium again.
I saw a news article on this and it really makes me wonder how they can pull this off? Someone with more knowledge than me could probably answer this...but is it even possible that they are ready in 4 years?
It takes forever to build a single leg of the LRT here nevermind erecting stadiums and sporting facilities at the same time. The russian economy is not exactly roaring ahead right now either...
I saw a news article on this and it really makes me wonder how they can pull this off? Someone with more knowledge than me could probably answer this...but is it even possible that they are ready in 4 years?
It takes forever to build a single leg of the LRT here nevermind erecting stadiums and sporting facilities at the same time. The russian economy is not exactly roaring ahead right now either...
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I saw a news article on this and it really makes me wonder how they can pull this off? Someone with more knowledge than me could probably answer this...but is it even possible that they are ready in 4 years?
It takes forever to build a single leg of the LRT here nevermind erecting stadiums and sporting facilities at the same time. The russian economy is not exactly roaring ahead right now either...
Once again, Calgary will be the back up location for the sledding events...
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