The organizers of the Sochi 2014 Olympics keep all the details of the upcoming event in the strictest confidence. However, some details still become known from time to time. According to the official announcement of the Sochi 2014 organizing committee, the start of the opening ceremony of the most anticipated Olympic Games in the world, which will be held in the Russian city of Sochi, is scheduled for February 7, 2014, at 20:14 Moscow time.
The time chosen for the beginning of the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games in Sochi - 20:14 o'clock, symbolizes the year of the very first Winter Olympics in the history of the Russian Federation.
The opening ceremony will be held at the Fisht Olympic Stadium. The event will last at least three hours. According to the official reports of the organizing committee, 3 thousand young people from among athletes, actors and creative teams will take part in all the mass staging of all the ceremonies of the Olympics in Sochi.
The Olympic Flame Cup at the Sochi opening will be lit by the torch of the Olympic Flame that has traveled through space, culminating in the ceremony. So far, the scenario of lighting the bowl and the name of the torch bearer remain a big secret. The main contenders are Evgeny Plushenko, Albert Demchenko, Ilya Kovalchuk and Olga Zaitseva. The names of Alexander Zubkov, Victor An, and also Ivan Skobrev are named as possible options.
The auditorium of the stadium in Sochi will be able to accommodate 40 thousand people. The seats for the spectators are symbolically painted in blue - the color of the Olympics in Russia. The upper stands will be the darkest shades; as the row goes down, the shades of blue will become lighter. In this way, the designers managed to visually enlarge the space of the sports arena and highlight the main element of the 2014 Olympic Games - the stage from all angles. The shape of the hall is made in the form of a bowl, so the action on the stage can be seen by any spectator from anywhere in the stadium. To ensure the safety of visitors, the 36-meter-high inverted dome of the stadium will consist of tiers and sectors with a separate exit for each. About 800 places are provided for disabled people.
The organizers revealed the secret: one of the 13-minute scenes at the opening ceremony of the 2014 Olympics was commissioned to stage the famous Ukrainian choreographer Alexander Leshchenko. He is going to present to the public the most beautiful scene of the first ball of the Russian heroine Natasha Rostova, a mini-performance will be staged based on the novel by the classic writer Leo Tolstoy "War and Peace".
