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Tania Cagnotto and Francesca Dallape of Italy dive in the Women’s 3M Synchro Springboard Final during the FINA/NVC Diving World Series 2014 at the Hamdan Sports Complex in Dubai. Picture: KARIM SAHIB/AFP/Getty Images Read More »

Canadian WTA tennis player Eugenie Bouchard and Bulgarian ATP player Grigor Dimitrov play an exhibition match on a floating court in Acapulco’s Santa Lucia Bay, Mexico. Picture: PEDRO PARDO/AFP Read More »

The opening ceremony of the 2014 Winter Olympics took place at the Fisht Olympic Stadium in Sochi, Russia, on 7 February 2014. It began at 20:14 Moscow Time and finished at 23:02 Moscow Time. The Sochi Winter Games officially open today at, wait for it, 20.14 local time, which is otherwise known as 16.14GMT. You may recall that the opening ceremony ... Read More »

A volunteer rides his snowboard along the practice slope for the alpine ski course of the 2014 Winter Olympics in Krasnaya Polyana, Russia. Read More »

Olympic rings are displayed in Paris, France, with images against restriction of speech and freedom of information, repression of demonstrations, discrimination due to sexual orientation and migrant’s exploitation, as part of a protest by human rights organizations a week before of the Sochi Winter Olympic Games. Read More »

Akira Sasaki of Japan falls during the first run of the men’s World Cup Slalom ski race in Adelboden, Switzeland. Picture: REUTERS/Ruben Sprich Read More »

Kiri Baga competes in the women’s free skate competition at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships in Boston, Massachusetts, Jan. 11, 2014. Read More »