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The re-emergence of Russia Whether or not there was home cooking, Team Russia dominated figure skating, winning the team event and gold in two of the four disciplines.

Alexander Legkov led home a Russian clean sweep in the men’s 50km cross-country race to ensure the host nation finished top of the Sochi medal table. Legkov, 30, won gold by only 0.7 seconds – the second narrowest margin ever…

Norwegian cross-country skier Marit Bjoergen won the women’s 30km mass start to become the most decorated female Winter Olympian.

Adelina Sotnikova became the first Russian to win gold in the Olympic women’s figure skating with a superb performance in the free programme.

Slovenia’s Tina Maze won her second Sochi Olympic title with victory in the women’s giant slalom.

Leading Russian pair Alexander Zubkov and Alexey Voevoda lead the Winter Olympics two-man bobsleigh standings at halfway, with Jamaica in last place.

The International Olympic Committee say it is outsmarting potential drug cheats at the Sochi Winter Olympics.

The Swedish women’s team have won gold in the cross country relay for the first time since 1960.

World champions Tatiana Volosozhar and Maxim Trankov won Winter Olympic gold in the pairs figure skating event.

Zhang Hong stormed to victory in the women’s 1,000m speed skating, winning China’s first Winter Olympic gold in the event.

James Woods missed out on Great Britain’s second freestyle medal of the Sochi Winter Olympics as he finished fifth in the ski slopestyle event.

Germany’s Carina Vogt made history by becoming the first ever women’s Olympic ski jump champion.

Dominique Gisin and Tina Maze made history in the women’s downhill skiing by becoming the first athletes ever to share Winter Olympics gold.

Michel Mulder won gold as the Netherlands’ domination of the speed skating events at Sochi 2014 continued with a clean sweep in the men’s 500m.

German Maria Hoefl-Riesch retained her Olympic super combined title in Sochi after an impressive slalom display.

Norway’s Ole Einar Bjoerndalen equalled the record for most medals won at the Winter Olympics as the 22nd Games got under way in Sochi, Russia.

Canadian sisters Justine Dufour-Lapointe and Chloe Dufour-Lapointe won gold and silver in the women’s moguls at the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics.

United States snowboarder Sage Kotsenburg won the first-ever Olympic slopestyle gold medal with victory in Sochi. 

Coverage: Live on BBC TV, Red Button, BBC Sport website, Connected TVs, mobiles, BBC Sport app and Radio 5 live The 22nd Winter Olympics opened with a spectacular ceremony in the Russian resort city of Sochi.

It is not lazy shorthand to call Sochi 2014 “Putin’s Games”. The Russian president has been the driving force ever since the International Olympic Committee was persuaded that his vision for the Black Sea city could be made real.

Claims that a new muscle-growth drug, undetectable to testers, has been offered for sale are “shocking”, says the World Anti-Doping Agency (Wada).

Olympic organisers said they will act after being asked to make changes to the slopestyle course in Sochi.

Cows wandering the streets in the Russian Olympic city of Sochi have prompted an angry outburst from a local blogger.

Supporters of South Africa’s only would-be Winter Olympic skier have condemned the decision not to send Sive Speelman to the Sochi Games.

Violinist Vanessa Mae is set to ski for Thailand at the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics, which start next month.

Olympic heptathlon champion Jessica Ennis-Hill will miss the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow because she is pregnant. The 27-year-old Briton is expecting her first baby with husband Andy, but still plans to defend her Olympic gold medal at the 2016 Rio…

For most people, below-freezing temperatures generally put a stop to outdoor exercise, but Siberian native Boris Fyodorov is not most people.

The International Olympic Committee president says he has confidence that Russian authorities will deliver a “safe and secure” Games in Sochi.

Seven-time world champion Michael Schumacher has suffered a head injury while skiing in Meribel, France.

Floyd Mayweather is so good, so far ahead of the competition, that we have difficulty believing it. We say that he’s fought no one, that he’s passed up the great competition, that if he had fought this guy or that…