SOCHI, Russia — The largest and most expensive Winter Olympic Games in history likely will be remembered for palm trees, reminders of Cold War tensions between the United States and Russia and ...

More so than any previous Olympics, the Sochi Games have been linked with the host nation’s head of state, commonly referred to as “Putin’s Games,” in tones both laudatory and derisive.

A view of the Olympic Park on Feb. 6, a day before the opening ceremony of the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia. Yuri Kadobnov/AFP/Getty Images hide caption ...

An Olympic 1st in Sochi: Tie for gold in Alpine skiing Tina Maze of Solvenia, Dominique Gisin of Switzerland share the top prize in women's downhill race Feb 12, 2014 ...

Dead ahead lay the busy port of Sochi, home of the 2014 Winter Olympics and Russia’s most popular resort, with its restaurants, shops, five-star hotels, and hawkers doing a surprisingly brisk ...

Top 10 moments from the Sochi Olympics The 2014 games will be remembered for a few notable historical achievments, the Dutch's speed skating dominance, and, well, T.J. Oshie.

Hoarders: Sochi Edition. Because Sochi’s relatively rural for an Olympic destination, there’s not much of a meteorological history to pull from.

Sochi's post-Olympics time bomb: Can the city survive when the games are gone? Complaints about waste and corruption are already common — and things could get so much worse ...