Russia : Suspect reportedly in custody in Turkey after jet crash threat , desire to return to Russia . Opening began with a girl , rigged with wires , walking over screens depicting Russian landscapes . Russian President Vladimir Putin attended . Not quite there : While the sports facilities were completed in good time , journalists and others arrived in Sochi this week to find that some of the 40,000 new hotel rooms were far from ready and that construction workers were still hard at work on parts of the Olympic Park . Putin pushed for the Russian Olympic Committee to hold the Games in the nation .
Russia : Suspect reportedly in custody in Turkey after jet crash threat , desire to return to Russia . Opening began with a girl , rigged with wires , walking over screens depicting Russian landscapes . Russian President Vladimir Putin attended . Putin pushed for the Russian Olympic Committee to hold the Games in the nation .