Opening Olympic Winter Games 2014

The last few weeks have been increasingly dominated by the Winter Olympics. Today they will be festively opened in Sochi with an opening ceremony.

15 winter sports
During the Winter Olympics, no fewer than 15 sports are reviewed. We list them for you:

– Alpine skiing
– Biathlon
– Bobsleigh
– Cross-country skiing
– Curling
– Figure skating
– Freestyle skiing
– Ice hockey – Tobogganing
– Northern combination,
– Short track
– Skeleton
– Ski jumping
– Snowboarding
– Long track speed skating

Dutch athletes
37 athletes represented the Netherlands in the categories bobsleigh, long track speed skating, short track and snowboarding.

Opening ceremony on TV
Follow the opening ceremony live. from 16.45 to 19.50 on Nederland 1.

You can read more about the Winter Olympics in the February issue of Santé.

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