twenty second of winter olympic games officially over a cap by a spectacular closing ceremony a fireworks display for which it seems no effort was spared organizers promised to put on a show and they delivered even poking fun at themselves over that one during that wouldn't open during the opening ceremonies the i.o.c. president personally thanked russia for the games which he said lived up to every expectation and more and it really was a fantastic olympics with plenty of action in new records but also heartbreak and celebration congratulations to all the winners and all the participants especially the russian home team for their late surge to the top of the medal count we've been busy here on our team putting together very breast the best her father and brightest moments of the games our team in sochi presents the olympic program. since ations well russia comes to mind there and drew will talk about them in

a minute you'll start to get you number five with the u.k. holland the netherlands that makes you wonder sixty medals table the rules might tell you why because they've got eight gold medals all in speedskating they really want to say you know one sport kind of sort of posting if you like twenty four medals in title twenty three of those wind speeds skates and the other one came from. i told you last hour all good stops we all want to run the speed skating i've got a car else could've come from so that's number five the dutch the next one the new generation of russians that we've seen at these unempowered zidan that new generation do well also wearing skates we're talking figure skating at least what a star she was threshers really on her it really was too because the other star there was the fifteen year old skier who fell twice during her routines many people who don't know that's russia hopes gone but not the giver turns up puts in the best performance of her life and she is russia's first woman ever to win figure skating

gold in the individual event and in pics amazing for her we've also got new russians to enjoy because four years ago pick wild and victor on they were on. guard amazing i'm a fantastic then i got russian passport speak wild as an american he married a siberian then got a russian passport and asked why did he come here what was the story of his because he knows a well he know initially he wanted funding he couldn't get the funding he needed to do his training from america and russia gave him the option but they said look you have to be russian russian citizen how can i do that you can marry that russian girl friend of yours who happens to be a snowboarder so they did anyway so coming here he got a career and he got love drea and love i mean they were together before we have to say that it wasn't an arranged marriage and from that respect kevin it was love there already but look at blossom on the slopes too because she got a bronze medal brilliant victory and victory on. he didn't he fell out with a south korean pederasty skating photo with him would he fall over there i don't

know do i but i'm sure the pope had a step too on the phone is what i'm saying you must be some green are these in the south korean live well i want you to go look let me give you a quick story first he fell out of the federation he had an injury to you which meant that we did not seem at the last olympics but russia said look if you need another country to represent here we are will give you all the funding and the expertise you need it was a bit of a gamble from russia's point but look at paid off your three gold medal cracky when that. well next i'm going to turn the page where texas we're going to go to the old wolf darling he didn't or we just so was forty two is old for a libyan isn't it it is for limpy and these million and look he became or he has become the most decorated winter olympians ever because during his time in sochi he picked up two gold medals which means he's now got thirteen in total over six olympics so that's amazing and then of course how can i not talk about seems you know russia is number one number one and this is the main reason for me i was in vancouver four years ago everybody was so disappointed distraught because

a lot of soul searching because they only got three gold medals that was their worst performance ever since the fall of the soviet union forward wind for years and now put in the best performance since the fall of the soviet union that got thirteen gold medals at no time as russia got more than that and really accelerated towards the end though to me it did it really did an article that don't well it's hard to say but i think a lot of sport is down to your mental preparation too and once you know you've got the the ground swell of your home nation. building in your saliva seventy percent of the people watching the other think up to seventy percent were russians themselves like that and we saw great examples of that vic wild i'm a big fan now but he was almost out in one of his hate on his route or on route to the final but he didn't panic he carried on and you could see he wanted it more than the other guy and he got it. so she's also share of scandals too it can be argued that it got more than it

deserved indeed from western mysteria over gay rights to highly debated rulings by the judges and referees of the games in the same as because of the busy laughing the biggest controversies of these olympics joins me now you've got your top five and i says that by saying that sochi has been surrounded by more scandal than any other olympics in recent history it blew away as the games went on it did indeed someone interest. russia's got ninety nine problems but the olympics isn't one i'll start with number five is doping overall the olympics were very clean and special mention that the latest technology they did and it happened just lately because the latest technology can detect the smallest traces of any kind of substance. we had a german by athlete whose results were an old we had ukrainian skier who was caught in her scored discounted and austrian skier in fact was banned from today's just this morning fifty k. . cross-country ski rush of course own the podium and that and then the most recent

more hockey as well that field hockey player will be sanctioned for his results and tonight in the gold medal game a swedish player wasn't allowed to play this was just breaking news a couple of hours ago because of his doping result also before number four is no it was one of the biggest criticisms coming out is how beautiful abbott article please have snow all of the major news networks showing the beach down here no one bothered to show the beautiful mountains we have just an hour's drive away the snow was here was great weather lots of sun that did create a bit of a problem to have to approach the slopes when there were. sure not just a day many days we had people one of the i.o.c. . russian organizing committee was here today saying people were complaining they were getting sunburned but the snow was slushy we had a lot of falls but when it comes down to it the athletes and the i.o.c. it was very happy with with the conditions there was a backup plan we had a couple of fog delays but over. or it's on the same snow number three number three

is versus yeah huge was a huge one so debatable whether or not it should be number three but let's have it at three tonight because it was a huge scandal leading up to the olympics it should be mentioned that during the olympics there weren't any kind of instances reported of discrimination or any kind of problems for that matter we spoke to many many athletes scores of them that were very happy with the way things went. on to be such a big issue with the world cup about gays are legal is of course people are saying ok search is over where will the critics go now carol it's going to be interesting to try to keep much much more severe. laws there concerning. sexual orientation it should be mentioned though ironically at the same time as these games all of the noise about about russia and anti-gay laws in the united states in arizona during the games a law was passed which basically allows anyone to to decline any kind of service to

someone based on their sexual orientation because of their religious beliefs but look at number two the moving goal post number two. i think it's fair to say the most exciting match of the olympics the usa versus russia of course a long time rivals goes way back to soviet times really. there was a goal that was there would have been a third point could have been a winning goal for russia so they scored a cording to international hockey federation if the goalpost is off its pegs the goal doesn't count the ref on the ground was american that was a problem for many on social media but up in the box the the judges who watched the tape did say that according to the rules the goal does not count but many unhappy russian fans especially on the internet. watch talk realistic i still number one media media's been leading up to the. lympics we heard about sochi being held

in a war zone about toothpaste bombers terrorism terrorism terrorism of course that's no joke security was a big thing we heard about hotels not being done no doors of blackwater it was just just a tremendous tremendous media coverage really not about the sport not about the athletes but it should be said that once the games got started it did become about them and that was what the organizing committee wanted to their overall satisfied hoping that sochi could have broken some of those russian stereotypes top five scandals thanks for telling us what you thought about them in the run you put the minister now in their lovely. so best with the games although the competition was truly a limpin i think you'll agree from years long rivalries to apply through photo finish is the winners were forced to give it their all if they wanted to find themselves on the podium end of the day scott to spread the games the seaside cluster side of it so to tell us about paul for us not a limp quite hard to imagine the intensity of the competition for the people taking

part in it. yes it really is a fine line isn't it between success and failure for all those joyous moments that we've seen spare a thought for those athletes who have now really missed out on success by a fraction of a second in some cases the margin which. joy and despair is so narrow that even the latest technologies concept right the competitors take for example the women's downhill skiing for the first time in winter olympics history the gold medal was actually shed on and tina maze clocking identical times not even a piece of tracing paper could separate them well in the men's biathlon must stop french when not in full cause it was going for a sochi hat trick he was going for his medal of these games he threw himself over the line in desperation but was now only missed out of it is not only edged out in the photo finish by norway's emil haye play spence in a match in the dispatch for cod and who can forget one of the more humorous climaxes and finishes to any racing winter olympics history it came in the men's

ski cross none of the four compact it says three of them fell at the final jump they all slid over the line at exactly the same time in different positions and shapes along the ground no one of them knew exactly what was going on so as we celebrate the sporting successes here in sochi let's just take a second and spare a thought for those who haven't narrowly missed out by a fraction of a second all those years of training and hard work and it comes down to the blink of an eye but of course not all the competitors here in sochi were expecting to compete for gold and not all competitors here in sochi needed a photo finish to determine their final position in the standings. i think. for some athletes such a twenty fourteen was simply about taking part take for example indian illusia shiva can shave in his commitment to his sport highlighted by his training regime winding his way down dusty tracks by passing goats and lorries along the way. my

wife's insight yes he may have come thirty seven thousand and thirty nine but the him there was more at stake following accusations of corruption the indian and limpid committee were suspended by the i.o.c. in two thousand and twelve and was lifted during these games meaning cache vin could finally compete under his nation's fly unfortunately there's a lot of politics played with the flag of india which i'm sure many people back home were not happy with but now that's over that's a lesson learned for everybody and lot of things to look ahead to one of the more colorful characters of these games was prince who purchase of hohenlohe in london by the fifty five year old is a descendant of a former german royal dinner state he's also a photographer and the pop star who goes by the name of royal disaster. these are his sixth olympics but your nationality means he skis for mexico he's

never won a medal for the maybe deserves gold for p.r. so i think that russia the only problem that had this things that i heard the p.r. person like it's a big bit of p.r. before i mean you know it's a very pretty. one the full venue for the for everything is really. the issue that just got the positive vibe over to europe and to america that we're so negative it's time to make his debut in these games bruno banani went in the luge is not his real name mind as part of a sponsorship deal he changed his name to that of the german underwear company but he told me he wants to be known for his sporting prowess. if i didn't qualify for the olympics they wouldn't care at all what names i am so i think is the most important thing that i try hard in training hard to get to the youth. and is any winter olympics complete without the jamaican bobsled team the main attraction for press and fans raising their own funds to compete missing a connecting flight losing their luggage on coming second last still didn't dampen

their party spirit proving that in amongst all the sporting excellence there is still room for sports to be fun. arty searching. behind the sport of celebration there was another olympic contest taking place in sochi one of fashion the best designers labels of all over the world competed to make their teams and the athletes the ones that stood out and a number of them certainly managed to do just that martin andrews as always you've got a good eye for these things yes you do what caught your attention in your top five while there's something to talk about in the fashion i mean i could give them personally many gold or bronze but it's ok in two minutes here we go let's go let's start first of all number five we've got the pink panther routine that was of course. the figure skating the past figure skating and it was a loner and robin. there was superbikes you saw them all that they could see that

yeah i think it looks a bit like a pink sausage but you say i got not because you draw he was in a strange military kind of outfit very strange but they they did well there was a perv on the ice but i think you know i'm not too sure regarding you know not. let's go to number four we've got the fans who took last few weeks we've got elaborate costumes we've got the norwegians with the horns all of the norwegian flag on their face cracking in the sea also last week we met a group of canadians who were dressed as elvis that we always see pictures of now great guys in fact in the stadium they were creating a great atmosphere they were starting a mexican wave so good for the fans because at the end of the day it's. no found what they were picks isn't it isn't here horse number three number three yes we've got the opening so we call scenes of germany now i think. simply hideous and ugly designed by. christmas comes later and i'm never allowed into germany ever again

look at them i mean they're just horrible it's like a throwback of rainbow brite all the care bears i really are a holder they said martin. i could be cruel but yes a thumbs down to the german outfits number two the sexy outfits of the slalom let's look at the prince of bettis of course he's a descendant of german royalty. in the yet he's actually fifty five years old good for him for participating in the law they got old and he not really he comes away without a medal he didn't expect it's a six a limb pics but look at him it is wonderful to talk about these calero it's a red coat about with his red tie to fame you want to stand out in a loeb's tell yourself to find the world number one is that this is number one i thought long and hard about it so actually i thought it would give it to our poor souls are going to be coming up i almost gave it for your jacket yes my special coat i'll give it to you in the end maybe if only people at home knew the drama's we had about what to wear here anyway number one we've got the scandinavian team of the norwegian look at that nasty looking like the moscow state circus it's kind of

. migrates if you stare at it and what was interesting is actually as they played the different games there was different trousers so that was just one outfit unfortunately they didn't they didn't score any medals they won silver in vancouver saying that the costumes helped sort of you know purpose on the ice but it didn't do them much favors and i'm sure they'll be throwing away those costumes before they go back to norway. so they are in it the amazing closing show we'll talk about that in just a minute it was a really strange moment when the flame extinguished that huge olympic flame that. had such a journey together we saw it. at the beginning of all this so much excitement you saw the tears on people's eyes that i got a bit we really strange to see it go really touching the flame is now officially out it's essentially the official start of the paralympics this is what sochi now means for the olympic organizers over seven years but for now let's concentrate on

the closing ceremony so it's really unfortunate but these always par for the course we were able to show. us exactly what was going to decide that because a very strict copyright rules it seems like that every time with a live picture it's nothing new however we were looking. to watch television while you was that it was phenomenal it was family was very different than the opening ceremony just as grand again they went back through the deep russian history of this time there was a focus on the historic. performing arts so they went through. the boatswain theatre downstairs let it get it was largely he was there it's just it's just at the very end very famous russian conductor conducting what looked like a child's chorus and they essentially i assume are singing as we're looking at these beautiful fireworks so really a tremendous show people were floored lots of people crying in the audience people very proud of course russia coming out on top of these olympics breaking so many

record it's it's kind of such an emotional moment when it all comes to an end i think people are genuinely happy but also a little bit sad right now but of course we must look to the future as you say the paralympics kicking off on the seventh of last for just over a week doesn't it and then just remind us what's going to happen remind of us what's going to happen to the majority of this site afterwards well there's a huge hope that this will be the future of russians were saying earlier that russians did not rape and are in fact their worst performance ever. and so i think that's a huge reason overhaul of sports there's a hope that this will bring sport back to the polity that it was back in soviet times when there was no it's that's it. into it. just as i take a pause because it looks like we're getting some great shots only crowd here follows us but not quite sure what you can see that it all but oh yes you can see that what it is you can see it's fantastic but look at me the heart should be looking out the right move shoulder the moment so you know guys you know you can see the look what a beautiful backdrop what

a spectacular end to watch but you know a great games thomas barkley are on today he said there were a great games this far as the i.o.c. is concerned and i think that russians were a little bit skeptical themselves michael kirk was tough that was the second normal and to have her and i think russell maybe a little bit nervous that they wouldn't pull it off and for russia today they realize that they did it and they did it really really well and that means something very important to russians to ordinary russians across the country just want to hear what was your very quick or like oh it's so hard don't see what we're doing on the spot being so close for us to get the opportunity people are ready to help my friends on the road i'm jealous so i feel very lucky to be here for me receiving their medals here so close to one of the touch and i was allowed to run for the guy for those medals that. well i just took her home thank you for watching our coverage i hope you've enjoyed it we've been here for three weeks of this saw on the whole rest of the team hope you've enjoyed it thanks ever so much being with

us that was though the twenty second winter olympics from here in sochi handing it over now of course and this is to. south korea four years time and they're already upsizing already over a show they had a presentation actually at part of the opening ceremony so efficiently russia has handed over the olympics they have the paralympics but this is a. no cholesterol. depression. for you. to improve your life. are you. one of those that. feel. the media leave us so we leave that maybe. the same motions to cure the play the part of the physical. issues that no one is asking with to get that you

deserve answers from. politics only on our team. wealthy british. markets. find out what's really happening to the global economy for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune into the reports. of course there is more than just the olympics going on this week turmoil great ukraine after the most turbulent week in its post-war history the country now undergoing a complete government overhaul since taking over the reins in the capital the opposition's been hard at work establishing its own order is going all has more

from kiev. situation here resembles more and more cool since the president's fled the city along with some of his supporters those deputies of state or from opposition parties and they have been passing laws like a printing press the latest include the appointment of the acting president and a russian as the second official language in the country even though in the east up to fifty percent of those living there are ethnic russians are still under the full control of the protesters some of the former officials have been arrested while appointed are known for their fire right. to say that events unfolded quickly here is almost to say nothing and for more about how things went all in what's the situation here like on the ground here is a report by my colleague. oh hell was breaking loose in kiev on tuesday to compromise with seemingly reached all of a sudden ukraine's capital was plunged into the worst violence seen so far almost

two hundred dead the central streets of one of europe's finest cities looking like a war zone and snipers shooting from the rooftops including our crew what we have now that we have read. that we have. there which is somehow here and driven by specialists as we see using snipers and so on and which is not controlled by the. by the west directly so everything went out of control just two days later it was a totally different scene to the president make the biggest concessions yet by offering an early election and opposition led government and a return to parliamentary republic there were i think or of the protests didn't buy it. if the president does not resign by ten am. i swear. i my ten o'clock on saturday they were is nothing left to storm

all the police were gone and the ruling party had. he lost control over the capital so this is the presidential administration building which used to be the probably the most protected governmental building in the whole of the of the biggest fight in the first stages of the protest happened here now as you can see we are taken on an excursion that is no longer controlled by the police or the government the protesters have occupied this building as well this means that we see i will never be back here as a pest the president made the head see retreat to the east of ukraine and was stoutly defiant even after receiving news that parliament had ceased to recognize him as leader by an overwhelming majority and announced an early election solutions . all that is happening now for the most part is vandalism and crimes this is my strong belief i will do everything takes to prevent my country from splitting up to stop the bloodshed it went from bad to worse we have a court which with parliament releasing this article i will unity my shango from prison sparking jubilation and to use independence square. actually dreamt of

seeing you as a force that changed everything your heroes here is the best of this country has where protesters are in high spirits and the east and south of the country are singing a different tune its leaders have declared itself governance and constitutional power fueling talk of a permanent break up in the country and the. reporting from kiev in ukraine. and coming up how the world pharmaceutical giants boast their bottom lines stay with us r.t. international after this short break. trends

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