More than 170,000 visitors to this year's Winter Olympic Games will be able to see their 3D image on the kinetic facade of The MegaFace pavilion. The stunning installation is the work of designer and architect Asif Khan, who already left his modern mark at the London Olympics in 2012 with the interactive Coca-Cola Beatbox.
What drives Olympic athletes to excellence? Immense love for what they do. In the spirit of often self-sacrificing and painful, but at the same time fruitful and sweet, we bring from Russia the happiest kisses of the past. Warm scenes that remind of the true essence of the Olympic Games - peaceful bonding through the love of sport.
In the spirit of the upcoming Olympic Games in Sochi, the Dutch State Archives has collected a series of vintage photographs showing moments of winter joys such as skiing, sledding and ice skating, captured in periods from the 1930s to the 1980s. A look into the past brings fascinating memories of the unusual (and often very inventive) techniques and tools of the time.