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United States' Bode Miller makes the final jump of a men's downhill training run for the 2014 Winter Olympics, Friday, Feb. 7, 2014, in Krasnaya Polyana, Russia. (AP Photo/Gero Breloer)

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Canadian speedskater Kali Christ rests between training at the Adler Arena Skating Center during the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia, Friday, Feb. 7, 2014. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

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A man looks over his cart full of tangerines at the Abkhazian border Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2014, near Sochi, Russia. Abkhazia is a festering geopolitical sore, and the economic system still operating in these and many other parts of Russia is decidedly 19th century. As Russia opens its doors to a curious world with the Sochi Games, places like this border expose the vast contradictions still gripping the one-time superpower 21 years after the Soviet Union collapsed. (AP Photo/Morry Gash)

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A man walks with his cart full of tangerines at the Abkhazian border Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2014, near Sochi, Russia. Abkhazia is a festering geopolitical sore, and the economic system still operating in these and many other parts of Russia is decidedly 19th century. As Russia opens its doors to a curious world with the Sochi Games, places like this border expose the vast contradictions still gripping the one-time superpower 21 years after the Soviet Union collapsed. (AP Photo/Morry Gash)

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Mukhmunad Ashabokova watches as someone puts tangerines in a bag at the Abkhazian border Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2014, near Sochi, Russia. Most days in the tangerine season, she rolls her squat cart loaded down with the fruit across the bridge over Psou River from her garden about two miles inside Abkhazia. (AP Photo/Morry Gash)

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Men wait near the Abkhazian border Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2014, near Sochi, Russia. Abkhazia is a festering geopolitical sore, and the economic system still operating in these and many other parts of Russia is decidedly 19th century. As Russia opens its doors to a curious world with the Sochi Games, places like this border expose the vast contradictions still gripping the one-time superpower 21 years after the Soviet Union collapsed. (AP Photo/Morry Gash)