Sochi Winter Paralympics end in style

By Stathi Paxinos
Updated June 12 2014 - 10:14am, first published March 17 2014 - 8:11am

The Sochi Winter Paralympic Games started 10 days ago under the threat of war no more than 500 kilometres to the north-west. The host nation had sent its military into the Crimea peninsula following internal conflict in the Ukraine and the spectre remained when it closed early Monday morning (Australian time), a day after tensions between the neighbours significantly increased after Russia's brief invasion of a gas facility on mainland Ukraine and hours after a disputed referendum was conducted.

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