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SOCHI, RUSSIA
RACING ON THE
Grade school geography teaches us that Russia is big —
remember that big spinning globe on the shelf? — but that does not
prepare for the sheer size of Rosa Khutor, essentially a ski resort
opened in 2011 to host the XXII Olympic Winter Games. The place is
huge, the mountains soar; it is a new frontier.
(And we mean frontier. Ted Ligety was confronted by armed patrol
when he tried to go powder skiing, see video below.)
