Opening Ceremony Sochi 2014 Paralympic Winter Games

The Sochi 2014 Paralympic Winter Games began with a stunning Opening Ceremony on Friday evening (7 March) at Fisht Stadium with a volunteer cast of more than 2, 500 people from the Krasnodar region of Russia taking centre stage, and twotime Paralympic champion swimmer Olesya Vladykina and sixtime Paralympic champion crosscountry skier Sergey Shilov lighting the Paralympic cauldron. With a theme of Breaking The Ice, the Opening Ceremony evoked the spirit of Russia and the importance of breaking down barr