Sochi 2014 Olympics President and CEO Dmitry Chernyshenko speaks to the Associated Press in Moscow, Tuesday Sept. 25, 2012. Russia is celebrating 500 days until the start of the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi. The country marked the latest milestone in the countdown to the Games with nationwide symbolic events. More than 12,000 volunteers from 15 cities nationwide took part in 500-meter relay races and formed giant human tableaux representing all 22 Winter Olympic sports. (AP Photo/Sergey Ponomarev)
