Olympics

As two members of punk band Pussy Riot are detained in Sochi, Channel 4 News looks at Russia’s Winter Olympics protest arrests so far.

On Monday 17 February, Channel 4 News launches a new online show where you ask the questions. Our first guest is Alex Brooker from The Jump and The Last Leg, ahead of the Sochi Winter Paralympics.

At 18, Katie Summerhayes is one of the youngest athletes in Team GB’s squad for the Winter Games. But after taking two World Cup ski slopestyle medals, she is a real prospect for Sochi.

Cathy Newman is in a gay bar in Soho for a “From Russia With Love” event and we speak to Lord Coe about gay rights at the Olympics.

Sochi will be the most expensive Olympics ever – but beyond the corruption, terrorism, security, gay rights what do we really know about the upcoming winter games?

European Olympic committees, including the British Olympic Association, receive threats of terrorist attacks in the run-up to the Winter Games in Russia.

It’s known as ‘chess on ice’. Britain’s wheelchair curling team are hoping to bring home their first gold medal at next month’s Winter paralympic games. Jordan Jarrett Bryan reports from Hamilton.

The resort is the playground of Russia’s elite, and in February hosts the Winter Olympics. But Sochi sits on one of the global flashpoints for Islamist terror. Who threatens the games – and why?

The BBC’s Sports Personality of the Year award is rarely won by a team player, but Wimbledon champ Andy Murray may not be a shoo-in.

Diver Tom Daley reveals he is having a relationship with a man, telling his fans in a YouTube video that he “couldn’t be happier”.

The Sochi 2014 Olympic torch is launched into space. Astronauts Oleg Kotov and Sergey Ryazansky will take it on a spacewalk on Saturday before it returns to Earth two days later.

Teachers in Brazil have been on strike for nearly two months in a dispute over pay. On Monday night, 20,000 demonstrators took to the streets and the protests turned violent.

The UK could be set for Sochi snow success as a new generation of skiers and snowboarders, the “fridge kids”, train on the latest facilities.

It was sheer euphoria for Japan as Tokyo was announced as the host city for 2020 Games. But there was little in the country’s bid about its Paralympic plans, as Jordan Jarrett-Bryan reports.

Supporters of Tokyo’s Olympic bid erupt in cheers of celebration after the Japanese capital is picked to host the 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games, beating bids from Madrid and Istanbul.