Winter Olympic Games

The two women’s teams are so powerful and skilled that everybody else at the Olympics doesn’t stand a chance. And that has led to a brutal rivalry.

“It’s a little like watching history collapse in on itself,” says one Moscow based journalist of the Olympic opening ceremonies in Russia.

“There is no reason to believe Sochi, in Russia, is under more threat than any other place on the planet,” said a top Russian official as preliminary events got underway at the 2014 Winter Olympics at Sochi. Islamic militants have threatened to disrupt the Games.

It’s hard not to get caught up in the buzz of Olympic excitement with the Games so close now. But what’s it like from a Russian perspective?

Prince Hubertus von Hohenlohe will be skiing for his birth country, Mexico, this winter in Sochi. It’s his fifth Winter Olympics. His chosen ski suit resembles a mariachi singer, but the eccentric prince isn’t an Olympic tourist he says.