We have been waiting for a real sports festival for a long time. We really wanted the Winter Olympic Games in Sochi 2014, which will be held for the first time in Russia, to become just such a holiday. But the holiday may not happen. The reality will be completely different from what we will be shown on television in the news and in sports broadcasts. The author openly talks about how many infrastructure, sports and transport facilities were built and why they will not be useful after the Olympics, why for the sake of the seventeen days of the Olympic holiday, at which many local residents will turn out to be strangers, finances have been invested that will never be returned. The editors' opinion may not coincide with the author's opinion.