2014 Victorian state election
The election marked the first time since 1955 that a Victorian state government had been defeated after only one parliamentary term. Furthermore, the Nationals were reduced to a total of ten seats in the Legislative Assembly and Legislative Council, one short of official status in the legislature. Following the election, both Napthine and Ryan resigned as leaders of the Liberal and National parties, respectively.


2014 Victorian state election, Results, Legislative Assembly
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2014 Victorian state election, Results, Legislative Council
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2014 Victorian state election, Results, Seats changing hands
Following the election, the seats of Frankston and Prahran were initially too close to call, with around a hundred votes separating candidates. Prahran was a three-way contest between Labor, Liberal, and the Greens, and this seat proved to be the tightest contest among all the lower house seats. The VEC declared Prahran had been won by the Greens on 9 December, whereby the Greens overtook the ALP from third place, to defeat the Liberal incumbent in the final distribution of preferences. The Greens' win was confirmed in the recount held the following day.


2014 Victorian state election, Results, Seats changing hands
The seats of Bellarine, Monbulk, Ripon, and Yan Yean were won by Labor at the 2010 election, but redistributions in 2013 made them notionally Liberal seats. Similarly, the redistribution largely replaced Ballarat West with Wendouree; Ballarat West was also won by Labor at the 2010 election, but notionally Liberal post-redistribution.


2014 Victorian state election, Key dates
Terms are fixed at four years unless dissolved earlier by the Governor. The election occurred in line with the fixed-term provisions laid out in the Electoral Act 2002.


2014 Victorian state election, Background
The Coalition won the 2010 Victorian state election, winning 45 seats in the 88-member lower house, a swing of 12 seats, defeating the 11-year Labor government which won 43 seats.


2014 Victorian state election, Background
Labor suffered a swing of 5.96 percent, a larger swing than the 1992 landslide that brought the Jeff Kennett-led Coalition to power. This led Paul Austin of the Sydney Morning Herald to speculate that Labor was headed for a long period in the political wilderness. However, by 2012, Labor had gradually whittled away a large Coalition advantage in opinion polling. By the time the writs were dropped, Labor had been leading most opinion polls for almost two years, though Andrews consistently trailed as preferred premier.


2014 Victorian state election, Background
With a Coalition MP as Speaker, the government operated with a one-seat margin of 44 seats, until the resignation of Geoff Shaw, the member for Frankston, from the Liberal Party on 6 March 2013. This meant the government had only 43 votes on the floor of the parliament, equal to Labor's total. Partly due to Shaw's defection, Premier Ted Baillieu resigned later on 6 March and was succeeded as Liberal leader and Premier by Ports Minister Denis Napthine.


2014 Victorian state election, Background
Shaw initially guaranteed the Napthine Government support on matters of supply and confidence, allowing it to stay in office as a minority government, although later statements indicated that he had rescinded that earlier statement and was considering assisting an ALP Opposition vote of no confidence in the Napthine administration. If this had happened, his actions could have precipitated an early state election.


2014 Victorian state election, Background
The government operated with a two-seat margin in the 40-member upper house where all members are up for re-election every term, with 21 Coalition, 16 Labor and 3 Greens members.


2014 Victorian state election, Background
Labor retained seats at the Broadmeadows, Niddrie, Melbourne and Lyndhurst by-elections.


2014 Victorian state election, Background
Casual vacancies were created in various Legislative Council seats by the departures of Labor MPs Martin Pakula (Western Metropolitan—who moved to the Legislative Assembly seat of Lyndhurst) and Candy Broad (Northern Victoria), and Liberal MPs Donna Petrovich (Northern Victoria) and Philip Davis (Eastern Victoria). Their seats were filled by Cesar Melhem, Marg Lewis, Amanda Millar, and Andrew Ronalds respectively, each being appointed by a joint sitting of Parliament.


2014 Victorian state election, Registered parties
Twenty-one parties were registered with the Victorian Electoral Commission (VEC), and all fielded candidates at the 2014 state election:


2014 Victorian state election, Registered parties
Additionally, two other parties applied for registration prior to the election, but failed to achieve registration by the deadline: No East West Link and Save the Planet.


2014 Victorian state election, Redistribution
A redistribution of Victoria's state electoral boundaries took place from 2012 to 2013. The final boundaries were gazetted on 17 October 2013 and were used for the 2014 state election.


2014 Victorian state election, Redistribution
Fifteen electorates were abolished, namely Ballarat East (Labor), Ballarat West (Labor), Benalla (Nationals), Clayton (Labor), Derrimut (Labor), Doncaster (Liberal), Keilor (Labor), Kilsyth (Liberal), Lyndhurst (Labor), Mitcham (Liberal), Murray Valley (Nationals), Rodney (Nationals), Scoresby (Liberal), Seymour (Liberal) and Swan Hill (Nationals).


2014 Victorian state election, Redistribution
The fifteen new seats are Buninyong (Labor, largely replacing Ballarat East), Clarinda (Labor, largely replacing Clayton), Croydon (Liberal, largely replacing Kilsyth), Eildon (Liberal, combining sections of abolished Seymour with areas of existing Gembrook), Euroa (Nationals, largely replacing Benalla), Keysborough (Labor, largely replacing Lyndhurst), Murray Plains (Nationals, largely replacing Swan Hill and parts of Rodney), Ovens Valley (Nationals, largely replacing Murray Valley), Ringwood (Liberal, largely replacing Mitcham), Rowville (Liberal, largely replacing Scoresby), St Albans (Labor, largely replacing Derrimut), Sunbury (Labor, created from parts of Macedon and Yuroke), Sydenham (Labor, largely replacing Keilor), Wendouree (Liberal, largely replacing Ballarat West), and Werribee (Labor, formed from parts of Lara and Tarneit).


2014 Victorian state election, Redistribution
Five electorates changed parties notionally with the new boundaries, including Wendouree, a notional Liberal seat created from the Labor seat of Ballarat West. According to ABC psephologist Antony Green, the Labor-held seats of Bellarine, Monbulk, Ripon and Yan Yean became notionally Liberal. This meant that Labor needed a notional five-seat swing to win government.


2014 Victorian state election, Issues
Much of the Labor campaign was focused on the Napthine Government's A$18 billion East West Link toll road project, which Labor opposed, and said it would halt if it won power. In early November Prime Minister Tony Abbott, in one of his few Victorian appearances for the Liberals during the campaign, described the election as "a referendum on the East West Link". Public transport also featured strongly during the campaign, with the parties presenting rival inner-city rail tunnel projects and competing plans to remove railway level crossings to ease road congestion.


2014 Victorian state election, Issues
With unemployment at its highest level since 2001, jobs and the economy became a key issue and both sides promised major job creation schemes: the Coalition said it would create 200,000 jobs over five years and Labor said it would create 100,000 jobs within two years. Other major issues raised during the election were the long-running Ambulance Victoria industrial dispute and slow ambulance response times, urban planning laws, education and law and order. Both major parties promised to build new and bigger hospitals.


2014 Victorian state election, Issues
Labor election advertising aimed to capitalise on the unpopularity of Australia's Liberal Prime Minister and unpopular federal Liberal policies, while much of the Coalition advertising depicted Andrews as a leader with close ties to the Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union.


2014 Victorian state election, Issues
On environmental issues neither the Coalition nor Labor presented comprehensive policies, although Labor promised to repeal some of the Coalition's legislation, such as on cattle grazing in the Alpine National Park and leases in national parks. A key topic was the proposal for a new Great Forest National Park, that was opposed by the Coalition and wasn't supported by Labor. The Greens supported the new park, as well as stronger action on climate change and phase-out of coal fired power stations.


2014 Victorian state election, Candidates and retiring MPs
As the close of nominations on 14 November 2014, there were a total of 896 candidates in the election (a 26 per cent increase to the 711 candidates in the 2010 election). There were 545 candidates contesting the 88 seats of the Victorian Legislative Assembly (up from 501, an 8.6 per cent increase); and 351 candidates contesting the 40 seats in the Legislative Council (up from 206, a 68 per cent increase). Labor and the Greens contested every electorate. There were 92 candidates from the Liberal–National Coalition for the lower house, with four "three-cornered contests" where both Liberal and National candidates contested the same seat (Buninyong, Eildon, Euroa and Ripon).


2014 Victorian state election, Polling
Polling that is conducted by Newspoll and published in The Australian is conducted via random telephone number selection in city and country areas. Sampling sizes usually consist of around 1100–1200 electors. The declared margin of error is ±3 percentage points.


2014 Victorian state election, Election validity court challenge
In January 2015, unsuccessful Palmer United Party candidate Maria Rigoni petitioned the Supreme Court of Victoria to declare the 2014 election invalid, alleging that the Victorian Electoral Commission had breached the Electoral Act whilst conducting the election. Rigoni argued that the unprecedented high level of early voting demonstrated that the VEC had not applied or enforced the rule requiring applicants for an early or postal votes to declare a valid reason to an electoral officer that they were unable to vote on polling day.


2014 Victorian state election, Election validity court challenge
Lawyers acting for the VEC asked the court to dismiss the case as an abuse of process, however Justice Jack Forrest disagreed, and set the case to proceed to trial on 25 February 2015. On 24 March, Justice Gregory Garde of the Supreme Court of Victoria dismissed Rigoni's case, ruling that there was no evidence presented to the court that the VEC's early voting procedures had any effect on the result.


2014 Victorino Cunha Cup
The Victorino Cunha Cup is an annual Angolan basketball tournament held in honour of former Angolan basketball coach Victorino Cunha. The 6th edition (2014), took place at the Pavilhão da Cidadela, from October 13 to 18, 2014  and was contested by four local teams and included for the first time a foreign team. The tournament, played in a round robin system was won by Primeiro de Agosto.


2014 Victory Bowl
The 2014 Victory Bowl was a college football bowl game played on November 22, 2014 at Barron Stadium in Rome, Georgia. It featured the North Greenville Crusaders against the Shorter Hawks. The Crusaders cruised to a 42-16 win. North Greenville and Shorter were NCAA Division II schools, with Shorter playing its first year in Div. II after years in NAIA. Despite a 3-7 record entering the game, Shorter was selected for the bowl due to its high Massey Index rating. Although the teams had the same number of first downs (22) and comparable offensive yardage (North Greenville 411 to Shorter 365), the teams combined for several turnovers, including two Hawks fumbles which were recovered in the end zone for touchdowns by the Crusaders.


2014 Victory Bowl, Game play, First quarter
North Greenville opened the scoring with a seven-play, 61-yard opening drive capped by Simeon Byrd's 14-yard touchdown run. Shorter responded with a 78-yard march of its own, with Eric Dodson tying the game at 7 on a one-yard TD run.


2014 Victory Bowl, Game play, Second quarter
Shorter's defense forced three turnovers in the frame, but were only able to convert them into three points. Shorter's Santavious Bryant had an interception and a fumble, while Reggie Brown also recovered a Crusaders fumble. North Greenville's Quantel Mack also picked off a Shorter pass for four total turnovers during the quarter. After Brown's fumble recovery at Shorter's own 3-yard-line, the Hawks marched 78 yards before taking a 10-7 lead on a Kenny Langford 36-yard field goal at the end of the half.


2014 Victory Bowl, Game play, Third quarter
The Crusaders took control quickly in the third quarter after Rashad Simmons recovered Shorter's fumbled kickoff return in the end zone, giving North Greenville a 14-10 lead. Then following a Hawks three-and-out, the Crusaders went 49 yards in about two minutes for another TD, increasing their lead to 21-10 on a Nelson Hughes-to-Mason Sanders seven-yard strike. The Hawks were able to regroup on their next series, driving almost 80 yards on 11 plays and pulling within 21-16 late in the quarter after a 10-yard Aaron Bryant touchdown run (the PAT failed).


2014 Victory Bowl, Game play, Fourth quarter
Shorter was shut out in the final frame of the day. North Greenville scored three more times on a run by Byrd, a Robbie Brown 42-yard TD catch from Hughes and another end zone fumble recovery, this one by Charles Coleman, to make the final score 42-16.


2014 Vietnam Open Grand Prix
The 2014 Vietnam Open Grand Prix is the twelfth Vietnam Open grand prix gold and grand prix tournament of the 2014 BWF Grand Prix Gold and Grand Prix. The tournament is held in Tan Binh Sports Center, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam September 1–7, 2014 and has a total purse of $50,000.


2014 Vietnam anti-China protests
2014 Vietnam anti-China protest (Vietnamese: Biểu tình phản đối Trung Quốc tại Việt Nam 2014) was a series of anti-China protests followed by unrest and riots across Vietnam in May 2014, in response to China deploying an oil rig in a disputed region of the South China Sea.


2014 Vietnam anti-China protests
Although the PRC oil rig was used as the rallying event, several of the early organizers are claimed to have stated that they organized the protests to complain about government repression of free speech and government collaboration with China, and that using the oil rig as the stated cause of the protests was done in an attempt to prevent governmental backlash.


2014 Vietnam anti-China protests
In Bình Dương Province, the province most heavily affected by the protests, only 14 of the 351 factories that were damaged, looted, or destroyed were owned by Chinese corporations.


2014 Vietnam anti-China protests, Binh Duong-Dong Nai riots
Bình Dương and Đồng Nai provinces are highly industrialized, both have a dense concentration of foreign-invested industrial parks. Anti - China demonstrations here quickly developed into a full scale worker riot, where factories were looted, smashed or burnt. Swarms of rioters on motorbikes mistakenly targeted South Korean, Taiwanese, Japanese and Singaporean businesses as Chinese and vandalized them.


2014 Vietnam anti-China protests, Formosa Ha Tinh Steel Mill riot
The Formosa Ha Tinh Steel company and associated port facilities in Vung Ang, Hà Tĩnh Province in central Vietnam, 250 kilometers (155 miles) south of Hanoi, is operated by the Taiwanese conglomerate Formosa Plastics Group, one of the largest foreign investors in Vietnam. The complex employs more than 2,600 foreign workers, among them more than 1,500 are Chinese nationals. Friction arose between locals and foreign workers and clashes broke out sporadically. In 2013, a Taiwanese accountant was stabbed to death in one such clash.


2014 Vietnam anti-China protests, Formosa Ha Tinh Steel Mill riot
On May 11, a 1,000 strong group of workers and locals formed an anti-China parade that turned into a riot. The mob stormed the steel mill, lit fires at the furnace and several buildings and hunted down the Chinese workers. At least one Chinese worker was killed and 90 were injured.


2014 Vietnam anti-China protests, Reactions
Initially, Hanoi lauded the "patriotic" displays by its citizens, but reversed after the violence turned badly citing the country's image being stained as a safe destination for sorely needed foreign investment. After hundreds of people have been arrested in the following crackdown the Vietnamese prime minister, Nguyễn Tấn Dũng stated The Vietnamese government has … contained the acts of law infringement and [will] strictly punish violators in accordance with the law. As a result, the situation has become totally stable. The enterprises' business and production have come back to normal, he added.


2014 Vietnam anti-China protests, Reactions
After the sentenced of two men to prison the Chinese government called for further investigation, strict punishment and compensation. The Vietnamese government said it would assist riot-hit companies with tax breaks, rent waivers and lines of credit.


2014 Vietnam anti-China protests, Casualties
On May 21, the Chinese foreign ministry confirmed that four people were killed and more than 100 others injured in the violence a week before.


2014 Vietnam anti-China protests, Casualties, Hà Tĩnh
On May 15,  Reuters reported that about 100 people in Hà Tĩnh Province were injured and sent to the hospital due to the violence on the night of the 14th. A doctor told reporters that in central Hà Tĩnh that five Vietnamese workers and 16 other people described as Chinese were killed on Wednesday night in rioting.


2014 Vietnam anti-China protests, Casualties, Hà Tĩnh
Central News Agency (Republic of China) confirmed that clash between Chinese and Vietnamese workers and locals at the Formosa Ha Tinh Steel Mill had resulted in the death of Chinese worker.


2014 Vietnam anti-China protests, Casualties, Bình Dương
On May 15, a dead body was found in a burnt down Taiwanese factory and confirmed as a Chinese member of staff.


2014 Vietnamese Cup
The 2014 Vietnamese Cup is the 22nd edition of the Vietnamese Cup. It began on 8 March 2014 and finished on 17 August 2014.


2014 Vietnamese National Football Second League
The 2014 Vietnamese National Football Second League was the 14th season of the Vietnamese National Football Second League


2014 Viking FK season
The 2014 season was Viking's second full season with Kjell Jonevret as manager. They competed in the Tippeligaen and were knocked out of the cup at the Quarterfinal stage by Molde.


2014 Viking FK season, Squad
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2014 Viking FK season, Transfers, Winter
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2014 Viking FK season, Transfers, Winter
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2014 Viking FK season, Transfers, Summer
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2014 Viking FK season, Transfers, Summer
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2014 Villa Somalia attack
On 21 February 2014, Al-Shabaab militants launched a surprise attack on the Somali presidential palace Villa Somalia in Mogadishu, where the president and speaker of parliament live and have their offices. All nine of the attackers were slain during the ensuing shootout with palace guards and security, with at least five Somali security officials also killed.


2014 Villa Somalia attack, Overview
The assault was presumably targeting government officials praying at the compound mosque. The heavily armed fighters were traveling in three cars and were dressed in guard uniforms and red berets worn by security at the palace. They were able to talk their way through the outer perimeter of security. Once passed that, one of the cars rigged with a suicide bomb blasted through the compound's gate, thereby creating an entryway into the palace. Two of the suicide bombers were killed in the incident. The seven other men dismounted their cars and engaged in an intensive shoot-out with palace guards. According to a senior official reporting about the attack, all of the militants died, with some blowing up themselves while others were gunned down. Several government guards also died during the exchange.


2014 Villa Somalia attack, Overview
The Al-Shabab militants were eventually overwhelmed by Somali government reinforcements along with AMISOM troops. Government casualties were estimated at five palace guards, including deputy intelligence chief of the Somali Army Gen. Mohamed Nur Shirbow and Mohamed Abdulle, a close aide to the prime minister. Several Somali soldiers were also reportedly killed. All nine of the attackers were slain.


2014 Villa Somalia attack, Overview
Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud was reported unharmed along with the prime minister. The Interior Ministry subsequently held a press conference in front of the palace, where the bodies of seven of the attackers were displayed.


2014 Villanova Wildcats football team
The 2014 Villanova Wildcats football team represented Villanova University in the 2014 NCAA Division I FCS football season. They were led by 30th-year head coach Andy Talley and played their home games at Villanova Stadium. They were a member of the Colonial Athletic Association. They finished the season 11–3, 7–1 in CAA play to finish in second place. They received an at-large bid to the FCS Playoffs where they defeated Liberty in the second round before losing in the quarterfinals to Sam Houston State.


2014 Virginia Cavaliers baseball team
The 2014 Virginia Cavaliers baseball team represents the University of Virginia in the 2014 NCAA Division I baseball season. Head Coach Brian O'Connor is in his 11th year coaching the Cavaliers, who play their home games at Davenport Field. They compete in the Atlantic Coast Conference's Coastal Division.


2014 Virginia Cavaliers baseball team
2014 was a very good year for Virginia baseball. The Cavaliers made their first trip to a College World Series Finals, where they were defeated in a best-of-three game series by Vanderbilt. UVA posted a 53–16 record – its fourth 50-win season in the last five years – winning the Charlottesville Regional and Super Regional en route to its third trip to Omaha in the last six seasons. As the tournament's No. 3 national seed, UVA won four games at the CWS in reaching the CWS championship game. Nathan Kirby earned First-Team All-America honors and was tabbed the Co-ACC Pitcher of the Year; he also was one of a record eight Cavaliers named to the All-ACC Team.


2014 Virginia Cavaliers baseball team
Pitching and defense propelled the Cavaliers, as UVA recorded the second-lowest ERA in program history (2.23) and the best fielding percentage in the school annals (.981). UVA ranked second nationally in ERA and fourth in fielding. Nick Howard set an ACC record with 20 saves and then was selected in the first round of the MLB Draft, one of eight Cavaliers to be drafted in 2014. Howard and Mike Papi joined Kirby as 2014 All-Americans.


2014 Virginia Cavaliers baseball team, Ranking Movements
^ Collegiate Baseball ranks 40 teams in their preseason poll, but only ranks 30 teams weekly during the season. † NCBWA ranks 35 teams in their preseason poll, but only ranks 30 teams weekly during the season. * New poll was not released for this week so for comparison purposes the previous week's ranking is inserted in this week's slot.


2014 Virginia Cavaliers football team
The 2014 Virginia Cavaliers football team represented the University of Virginia in the 2014 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The Cavaliers were led by fifth year head coach Mike London and played their home games at Scott Stadium. They were members of the Coastal Division of the Atlantic Coast Conference.


2014 Virginia Cavaliers football team
Coming off of their worst season in over thirty years, Virginia attempted to rebound to bowl eligibility for the first time since 2011. Despite starting 4–2 in the front half of the season, including an upset Louisville, the Cavaliers suffered five in-conference losses, culminating in a loss to Virginia Tech. The season was the fourth losing record in Mike London's season at Virginia; however, athletic director Craig Littlepage announced prior to the final game that London would return for the 2015 season. They would finish the season 5–7, 3–5 in ACC play to finish in a three way tie for fifth place in the Coastal Division.


2014 Virginia Cavaliers men's soccer team
The 2014 Virginia Cavaliers men's soccer team was the college's 74th season of playing organized men's college soccer, and their 62nd season playing in the Atlantic Coast Conference.


2014 Virginia Cavaliers men's soccer team
After a mediocre season in ACC conference play and a quarterfinal exit from the ACC Men's Soccer Tournament, the Cavaliers made a deep run into the 2014 NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Championship where they ended up winning their seventh national title, defeating UCLA in penalty kicks.


2014 Virginia Tech Hokies baseball team
The 2014 Virginia Tech Hokies baseball team is representing Virginia Tech in the 2014 NCAA Division I baseball season. Head Coach Patrick Mason is in his 1st year coaching the Hokies. They are coming off a 2013 season, in which they had a 40 win season. 15 of them came in the ACC. That marked the fifth straight year with over 30 wins.


2014 Virginia Tech Hokies football team
The 2014 Virginia Tech Hokies football team represented the Virginia Tech in the 2014 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The Hokies were led by 28th-year head coach Frank Beamer and played their home games at Lane Stadium in Blacksburg, Virginia. They were members of the Coastal Division of the Atlantic Coast Conference. They finished the season 7–6, 3–5 in ACC play to finish in a three way tie for fifth place in the Coastal Division. They were invited to the Military Bowl where they defeated Cincinnati. They were also the only team to beat the eventual National Champions, The Ohio State Buckeyes.


2014 Virginia ballot measures
The 2014 Virginia State Elections took place on Election Day, November 4, 2014, the same day as the U.S. Senate and U.S. House elections in the state. The only statewide election on the ballot was one constitutional referendum to amend the Virginia State Constitution. Because Virginia state elections are held on off-years, no statewide officers or state legislative elections were held. The referendum was referred to the voters by the Virginia General Assembly. The amendment easily passed with 87% of the vote in favor.


2014 Virsligas Winter Cup
2014 Virsligas Winter Cup is second the edition of Virsligas Winter Cup. FC Daugava is the defending champion.


2014 Visit Panamá Cup
The 2014 Visit Panamá Cup was a professional tennis tournament played on clay courts. It was the third edition of the tournament which was part of the 2014 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Panama City, Panama between 17 and 23 March 2014.


2014 Visit Panamá Cup, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:


2014 Visit Panamá Cup de Chitré
The 2014 Visit Panamá Cup de Chitré was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It was the first edition of the tournament for the men. It was part of the 2014 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Chitré, Panama, on 27 January to 2 February 2014.


2014 Visit Panamá Cup de Chitré, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:


2014 Visit Panamá Cup de Chitré, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following players used Protected Ranking to gain entry into the singles main draw:


2014 Visit Panamá Cup de Chitré – Doubles
This was the first edition of the event and was won by Kevin King and Juan-Carlos Spir.


2014 Visit Panamá Cup de Chitré – Singles
This was the first edition of the event and was won by Wayne Odesnik.


2014 Visit Panamá Cup – Doubles
Jorge Aguilar and Sergio Galdós were the defending champion, but decided not to compete.


2014 Visit Panamá Cup – Doubles
František Čermák and Michail Elgin won the title, defeating Martín Alund and Guillermo Durán in the final, 4–6, 6–3, [10–8].


2014 Visit Panamá Cup – Singles
Rubén Ramírez Hidalgo was the defending champion, but decided not to compete.


2014 Visit Panamá Cup – Singles
Pere Riba won the title, defeating Blaž Rola in the final, 7–5, 5–7, 6–2.


2014 Vodacom Cup
The 2014 Vodacom Cup was played between 7 March and 16 May 2014 and was the 17th edition of this annual domestic cup competition. This edition of the Vodacom Cup was played between fourteen provincial rugby union teams in South Africa from the Currie Cup Premier and First Divisions, as well as the  Limpopo Blue Bulls and  Simba XV from Kenya.


2014 Vodacom Cup, Competition
There were sixteen teams participating in the 2014 Vodacom Cup competition. These teams were geographically divided into two sections, with eight teams in each section. Teams played all the teams in their section once over the course of the season, either at home or away.


2014 Vodacom Cup, Competition
Teams received four log points for a win and two points for a draw. Bonus log points were awarded to teams that scored four or more tries in a game, as well as to teams that lost a match by seven points or less. Teams were ranked by log points, then points difference (points scored less points conceded).


2014 Vodacom Cup, Competition
The top four teams in each section qualified for the title play-offs. In the quarter finals, the teams that finished first in each section had home advantage against the teams that finished fourth in the other section and the teams that finished second in each section had home advantage against the teams that finished third in the other section. The winners of these quarter finals then played each other in the semi-finals, with the higher-placed team having home advantage. The two semi-final winners then met in the final.


2014 Vodacom Cup, Competition, Quotas
This competition saw the reintroduction of a quota system. Each match-day squad had to contain seven black players. Two of these had to be forwards and five of these had to be in the starting line-up.


2014 Vodacom Cup, Teams, Team Listing
The following teams took part in the 2014 Vodacom Cup competition:


2014 Vodacom Cup, Logs
The final standings in the pool stages of the 2014 Vodacom Cup were as follows:


2014 Vodacom Cup, Players, Player statistics
The following table contain points which were scored during the 2014 Vodacom Cup season:


2014 Volkswagen Scirocco R-Cup
The 2014 Volkswagen Scirocco R-Cup was the fifth and final Volkswagen Scirocco R-Cup season, the replacement for the ADAC Volkswagen Polo Cup. The season started on 3 May at Hockenheim and ended on 18 October at the same venue, after six rounds and ten races, all in support of the Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters.


2014 Volkswagen Scirocco R-Cup
The final championship title went to South Africa's Jordan Pepper – following in the footsteps of countryman, Kelvin van der Linde – after winning the first three races, and six races in total during the season. Pepper won the championship by 58 points ahead of his next closest competitor, Jason Kremer, who won races at Oschersleben and the Nürburgring. Third place in the championship went to Victor Bouveng, 26 points in arrears of Kremer, after three successive third places finishes at the Red Bull Ring and the Nürburgring.


2014 Volkswagen Scirocco R-Cup
The only other drivers to win races during the season were Chris Smiley, who finished fourth in the championship after winning at the Red Bull Ring, and Mikaela Åhlin-Kottulinsky, who became the only female driver to win in the series, in a shortened race at the Norisring. In the Junior Cup sub-classification, Nicolaj Møller Madsen was the highest placed competitor on four occasions, and ultimately won by 41 points ahead of Moritz Oberheim, who won three times.


2014 Volkswagen Scirocco R-Cup
For the 2015 season, the Audi Sport TT Cup replaces the Volkswagen Scirocco R-Cup as a support category to the Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters.


2014 Volta Limburg Classic
The 2014 Volta Limburg Classic was the 41st edition of the Volta Limburg Classic cycle race and was held on 5 April 2014. The race started and finished in Eijsden. The race was won by Moreno Hofland.


2014 Volta a Catalunya
The 2014 Volta a Catalunya was the 94th running of the Volta a Catalunya cycling stage race. It started on 24 March in Calella and ended on 30 March in Barcelona, and consisted of seven stages. It was the fifth race of the 2014 UCI World Tour season.


2014 Volta a Catalunya
The race was won for the second time by Spain's Joaquim Rodríguez of Team Katusha, who took the lead after winning the race's third stage, and maintained the overall lead of the race until the end in Barcelona, to take his first stage race victory in over two years.


2014 Volta a Catalunya
Rodríguez won the general classification by four seconds over runner-up and compatriot Alberto Contador (Tinkoff–Saxo), while the BMC Racing Team's Tejay van Garderen completed the podium, three seconds behind Contador, and seven down on Rodríguez; van Garderen was the winner of the race's queen stage to Vallter 2000-Setcases on the fourth day.


2014 Volta a Catalunya
In the race's other classifications, Stef Clement, of the Belkin Pro Cycling team, was the winner of the red jersey for the mountains classification; he also won a stage wearing the jersey, winning on the penultimate stage. Cannondale rider Michel Koch won both sprints classifications; along with the normal intermediate sprints, Koch was the winner of the special sprints standings, named in honour of Miguel Poblet, with the most points at the specific sprint places on the itinerary. For the second year in a row, Garmin–Sharp won the teams classification.


2014 Volta a Catalunya, Teams
As the Volta a Catalunya was a UCI World Tour event, all 18 UCI ProTeams were invited automatically and obligated to send a squad. Four other squads were given wildcard places, thus completing the 22-team peloton.


2014 Volta a Catalunya, Classification leadership table
In the 2014 Volta a Catalunya, four different jerseys were awarded. For the general classification, calculated by adding each cyclist's finishing times on each stage, and allowing time bonuses in intermediate sprints and at the finish in mass-start stages, the leader received a white and green jersey. This classification was considered the most important of the 2014 Volta a Catalunya, and the winner of the classification was considered the winner of the race.


2014 Volta a Catalunya, Classification leadership table
Additionally, there was a sprints classification, which awarded a white jersey. In the sprints classification, cyclists received points for finishing in the top 3 at intermediate sprint points during each stage; these intermediate sprints also offered bonus seconds towards the general classification. A special sprints classification was also contested, with points on offer at a specific point during the stage; the classification was named in honour of former cyclist Miguel Poblet, who died in 2013. There was also a mountains classification, the leadership of which was marked by a red jersey. In the mountains classification, points were won by reaching the top of a climb before other cyclists, with more points available for the higher-categorised climbs.


2014 Volta a Catalunya, Classification leadership table
There was also a classification for teams, in which the times of the best three cyclists per team on each stage were added together; the leading team at the end of the race was the team with the lowest total time.


2014 Volta a Portugal
The 2014 Volta a Portugal was a men's road bicycle race held from 30 July to 10 August 2014. It was the 76th edition of the men's stage race to be held, which was established in 1927. As part of the 2014 UCI Europe Tour, it is rated as a 2.1 event.


2014 Volta a Portugal
The Spanish cyclist Gustavo César from OFM–Quinta da Lixa won the race.


2014 Volta ao Algarve
The 2014 Volta ao Algarve was the 40th edition of the Volta ao Algarve cycling stage race. It was rated as a 2.1 event on the UCI Europe Tour, and was held from 19 to 23 February 2014, in Portugal.


2014 Volta ao Algarve
The race was won by Omega Pharma–Quick-Step rider Michał Kwiatkowski – taking the first stage race win of his career – after taking the race lead with a solo stage victory on the second stage; he further extended his lead in the following day's individual time trial, before holding his lead to the end of the race. Kwiatkowski's winning margin over runner-up Alberto Contador of Tinkoff–Saxo was 19 seconds, and world champion Rui Costa (Lampre–Merida) completed the podium, 13 seconds down on Contador and 32 seconds in arrears of Kwiatkowski. Contador won the queen stage of the race on the penultimate day, to the Alto do Malhão, while Costa finished second on three stages, and finished as the best-placed Portuguese rider.


2014 Volta ao Algarve
Portuguese cyclists were prominent in the race's other classifications. Costa's consistent finishing allowed him to take home the green jersey as the winner of the points classification, while Banco BIC–Carmim's Valter Pereira and Rádio Popular's César Fonte held the lead from start to finish of the mountains and sprints classifications respectively. Costa's Lampre–Merida squad were the winners of the teams classification, after Chris Horner also finished inside the top ten overall and Sacha Modolo took a stage victory on the opening day.


2014 Volvo World Match Play Championship
The 2014 Volvo World Match Play Championship was the 49th Volvo World Match Play Championship to be played. It was held 15–19 October, with the champion receiving €650,000. The format was 16 players split into four pools of four, with the top two in each pool progressing to the knock-out stage. It is an official money event on the European Tour.


2014 Volvo World Match Play Championship, Format
The 16 players are split into four pools of four, seeded by their Official World Golf Ranking. Within each pool, every player plays each other in a round-robin format over 18-hole matches. Points are awarded based upon win (2), tie (1) or loss (0). The two leading players from each pool advance to the knock-out stage. In the case of a tie in the standings, head-to-head results determine places with sudden-death playoffs used to determine standings if head-to-head match halved.


2014 Vorarlberg state election
The 2014 Vorarlberg state election was held on 21 September 2014 to elect the members of the Landtag of Vorarlberg.


2014 Vorarlberg state election
The Austrian People's Party (ÖVP) suffered substantial losses, and was deprived of its majority in the Landtag. The second-placed Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ) and Social Democratic Party of Austria (SPÖ) retained their position with minor losses. The beneficiaries of the ÖVP's defeat were The Greens, who achieved a breakthrough result of 17.1%, and NEOS – The New Austria, which debuted at 6.9%.


2014 Vorarlberg state election
Now lacking a majority, the ÖVP led by Governor Markus Wallner sought a coalition partner. They ultimately formed government with the Greens.


2014 Vorarlberg state election, Background
In the 2009 election, the ÖVP saw a small downswing but retained its majority. The FPÖ double its share of the vote and became the second largest party, ahead of the SPÖ.


2014 Vorarlberg state election, Electoral system
The 36 seats of the Landtag of Vorarlberg are elected via open list proportional representation in a two-step process. The seats are distributed between four multi-member constituencies, corresponding to the districts of Vorarlberg. For parties to receive any representation in the Landtag, they must either win at least one seat in a constituency directly, or clear a 5 percent state-wide electoral threshold. Seats are distributed in constituencies according to the Hagenbach-Bischoff quota, with any remaining seats allocated at the state level, to ensure overall proportionality between a party's vote share and its share of seats.


2014 Vorarlberg state election, Contesting parties
The table below lists parties represented in the previous Landtag.


2014 Vorarlberg state election, Contesting parties
In addition to the parties already represented in the Landtag, five parties collected enough signatures to be placed on the ballot.


2014 Voronin Cup
The 2014 Voronin Cup  took place on December 16–17 in Moscow, Russia.


2014 Vrancea earthquake
The 2014 Vrancea earthquake struck Vrancea County on 22 November 2014 at 21:14:17 local time, with a moment magnitude of 5.7. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 39 kilometers and lasted for thirty seconds. On the Mercali scale the quake registered an intensity of VI (strong).


2014 Vrancea earthquake
The earthquake was felt in northern Bulgaria and the Moldovan city of Chișinău. Towns located near the epicenter include: Mărășești (6 kilometers), Tecuci (22 kilometers), Focșani (21 kilometers), Adjud (25 kilometers) and Onești (51 kilometers). Mircea Radulian, the leader of Institutul Național de Cercetare-Dezvoltare pentru Fizica Pământului, reported that in Galați and Focșani, towns nearer the epicenter, moment magnitude measured over 6.0.


2014 Vrancea earthquake, Damage
Shortly after the earthquake, Mobil Telephone network services were disrupted. The frontage of an old building in Tulcea was damaged, and a radiator installed in a sixth-floor apartment fell and injured the owner.


2014 Vrancea earthquake, Damage
Four communes in Vrancea County lost electrical power. In Focșani, a portion of a roof collapsed, and a road cracked.


2014 Vrancea earthquake, Damage
Residents of northern Galați County were affected by electrical outages and water shortages.


2014 Vrbětice ammunition warehouses explosions
In 2014, two explosions of ammunition depots occurred in Vrbětice ([ˈvr̩bjɛcɪtsɛ], part of Vlachovice) in the Zlín District of the Czech Republic. The first explosion occurred on 16 October, and the second on 3 December. Two people were killed in the first explosion. The cleaning of unexploded ammunition left by the blasts ended on 13 October 2020. According to the Security Information Service and the Police of the Czech Republic, two GRU agents from Unit 29155 were involved in the explosions.


2014 Vrbětice ammunition warehouses explosions, Event
Both destroyed warehouses were located on the site of the state Military Technical Institute (Czech: Vojenský technický ústav, VTÚ), leased by the Ostrava-based company Imex Group, which deals with the arms trade, and a total of six buildings were leased on site, in which the company stored ammunition, weapons and other goods. The owner was Petr Bernatík Jr., who was the executive director and, together with his father, also worked in several other armaments companies.


2014 Vrbětice ammunition warehouses explosions, Event, First explosion
On 16 October 2014, the first explosion occurred at Warehouse No. 16, containing 50 tonnes of ammunition, which was thrown as far as 800 metres (870 yd) away after the blast. Two employees of the company were killed and nearby villages were evacuated.


2014 Vrbětice ammunition warehouses explosions, Event, First explosion
The ammunition depot was not present in Zlín District emergency plans, so firefighters at the scene had no idea what kind of fire they were going to, which put them in unnecessary danger. Immediately after the explosion, about 100 people from the nearby village Vlachovice, as well as students from elementary school and high school in Slavičín, were evacuated from the warehouse area.


2014 Vrbětice ammunition warehouses explosions, Event, First explosion
The evacuation, which lasted for two days, was a preventive measure, as pyrotechnicians were moving closer to the villages. There were random, uncontrolled detonations in the area caused by ammunition falling from trees or by wildlife. On 30 October, the police announced that access to the area was safe, and 7,000 tonnes of ammunition from the depots could be moved away.


2014 Vrbětice ammunition warehouses explosions, Event, Second explosion
On 3 December 2014, a second explosion occurred at Warehouse No. 12, which contained 100 tonnes of ammunition. The depot was 1.2 kilometres (0.75 mi) from the epicentre of the first explosion. 430 people from surrounding villages were evacuated. According to Imex Group's lawyer, artillery ammunition and submachine guns were stored in the depot. He believed that the depot could not explode on its own.


2014 Vrbětice ammunition warehouses explosions, Event, Cleaning up the damage
Uncontrolled blasts continued after the second explosion. The last one was observed in mid-December 2014. On 22 December, clean-up workers arrived in Vrbětice. In October 2020 the clean-up was finished. The cost of clean-up at the end of 2015 was close to CZK 350 million; the total cost of cleaning unexploded ammunition was estimated to be up to CZK 1 billion.


2014 Vrbětice ammunition warehouses explosions, Involvement of Russian GRU
According to the Security Information Service and the Police of the Czech Republic, the depot explosions were probably engineered by Russian military intelligence (GRU) officers. The announcement was made at a press conference by the Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babiš on 17 April 2021. Babiš said that there was "reasonable suspicion regarding a role of members of Russian military intelligence GRU's unit 29155 in the explosion."


2014 Vrbětice ammunition warehouses explosions, Involvement of Russian GRU
On the same day, Minister of the Interior and acting Minister of Foreign Affairs Jan Hamáček (chairman of the Czech Social Democratic Party) announced that the Czech Republic was expelling all Russian diplomats who had been identified as Russian intelligence services′ operatives, namely 18 diplomats in the Russian embassy in Prague. Two Russian intelligence officers Alexander Mishkin and Anatoliy Chepiga suspected of carrying out the poisoning of Sergei and Yulia Skripal in 2018 were alleged to have been involved in the explosions. Mishkin and Chepiga reportedly arrived to Prague from Moscow on 13 October and left on 16 October.


2014 Vrbětice ammunition warehouses explosions, Involvement of Russian GRU
They requested permission to visit the warehouses for the period 13-17 October 2014 from Imex, using fake passports of citizens of Tajikistan and Moldova (Chepiga as Ruslan Tabarov, Mishkin as Nicolaj Popa). Although no one saw them in the ammunition depot, the investigators believe that both visited Vrbětice as potential arms buyers.


2014 Vrbětice ammunition warehouses explosions, Involvement of Russian GRU
According to the Czech newsmagazine Respekt, the ammunition stored in the exploded depot was to be sold to Ukraine battling in the war in Donbas through the Bulgarian arms trader Emiliyan Gebrev (Емилиян Гебрев); Gebrev himself was poisoned in 2015 allegedly by the GRU. Jan Hamáček said the munitions were not planned to explode on Czech territory but only after being transported to Bulgaria. According to the news portal of Seznam.cz, the ammunition was to be sold to the Syrian opposition battling in the civil war against the Armed Forces led by Bashar al-Assad, an ally of Russia. EMCO, the Gebrev company, published a statement denying that the ammunition was heading to Syria or Ukraine. Later, Gebrev admitted in his email to The New York Times that his company, Emco, had shipped military equipment to Ukraine after 2014.


2014 Vrbětice ammunition warehouses explosions, Involvement of Russian GRU
Russian investigative group The Insider published further details, indicating that EMCO was one of two companies in the EU manufacturing ammunition compatible with Soviet designed arms, especially 120 mm mortar and 152 mm howitzer rounds. Supplies from the other company were purchased out by the GRU at a higher price, thus making them unavailable for Ukraine, while EMCO agreed to a sale to Ukrainian armed forces, which significantly increased their defense capabilities against Russian intervention. However, the particular supplies intended for Ukraine were not stored in Vrbětice, and the GRU either didn't know it or it hoped that the supplies from Vrbětice would be eventually transported to EMCO depots in Bulgaria and explode there (which explains the delayed detonation).


2014 Vrbětice ammunition warehouses explosions, Involvement of Russian GRU
According to the conclusions of the joint investigation by Bellingcat, Der Spiegel, Respekt and The Insider, six officers of the GRU, led by the head of military unit 29155, general Andrey Averyanov (Russian: Андрей Аверьянов), took part in the operation. In addition to Averyanov, Mishkin and Chepiga, among these six officers were Nikolay Yezhov, Denis Sergeev (cover identity - Sergey Fedotov) and Egor Gordienko (Georgy Gorshkov). Two out of six operated under the cover of diplomatic couriers. Data analyzed by Bellingcat supports the hypothesis that the 2014 explosions in Czechia were part of a longer-term GRU operation aimed at disrupting Ukraine’s capabilities to procure weapons and munitions critical to its defense against Russian troops and Russia-sponsored militants in the war in Eastern Ukraine.


2014 Vrbětice ammunition warehouses explosions, Reactions following Czech government′s conclusions on Russia′s involvement, Domestic reactions
On 19 April 2021, Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babiš said that the incident was not an act of state terrorism, but a botched operation to destroy the goods of a Bulgarian ammunition trader, "who was probably selling those weapons to parties fighting against Russia". Babiš′s statement was widely condemned and ridiculed by politicians, experts, and the public. Babiš was criticised by the Czech Social Democratic Party first deputy chairman Roman Onderka and by the opposition.


2014 Vrbětice ammunition warehouses explosions, Reactions following Czech government′s conclusions on Russia′s involvement, Domestic reactions
Some public figures including Jan Hamáček, former Chief of the General Staff Petr Pavel, President of the Senate Miloš Vystrčil and Chairman of the Civic Democratic Party Petr Fiala labelled the incident as a terrorist attack and an act of state terrorism. Babiš apologized and said that the incident was an unprecedented terrorist attack. The initial statement by Babiš was quickly picked up by Russian media, including RT. On 21 April, the Senate of the Czech Republic passed a resolution designating the explosion an "act of state terrorism against an EU country", and called on the Czech government, i.a., to claim from Russia a financial compensation for the victims, material damage and repair of the damages.


2014 Vrbětice ammunition warehouses explosions, Reactions following Czech government′s conclusions on Russia′s involvement, Domestic reactions
On 18 April, Czech Trade Minister Karel Havlíček said that Russia's Rosatom would be excluded from the nuclear tender to build a new unit of the Dukovany Nuclear Power Station.


2014 Vrbětice ammunition warehouses explosions, Reactions following Czech government′s conclusions on Russia′s involvement, Domestic reactions
Prague City Hall demanded that the government negotiate with Russia on the return of part of the city's park Stromovka with a total area of about half a hectare that the Russian Embassy has been using since it was taken over by Soviet troops in 1968 after the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia.


2014 Vrbětice ammunition warehouses explosions, Reactions following Czech government′s conclusions on Russia′s involvement, Domestic reactions
Seznam Zprávy reported that Jan Hamáček was considering negotiating with Russia not to disclose evidence of Russia's involvement in the explosions in exchange for 1 million doses of Sputnik V vaccine. Hamáček denied the accusation and said that he intended to sue the media outlet. The journalist, Janek Kroupa, said that he had an audio recording.


2014 Vrbětice ammunition warehouses explosions, Reactions following Czech government′s conclusions on Russia′s involvement, Domestic reactions
On 25 April 2021 Czech president Miloš Zeman cast doubt on Russia's involvement, suggesting the deadly blast could have been caused accidentally due to the mishandling of explosives and says there is no conclusive evidence to charge Russia. That statement prompted thousands of demonstrators to take to the streets in Prague on 29 April, calling Zeman "a servant" of Russia, and demanding he be tried for treason.


2014 Vrbětice ammunition warehouses explosions, Reactions following Czech government′s conclusions on Russia′s involvement, Domestic reactions
In response to Zeman’s comments, Deputy Prime Minister Jan Hamáček, who is also the interior minister, on 26 April 2021 said that "only one line of investigation exists on the Vrbětice case and that is the one connected with movements of those members of the [GRU] unit 29155" and that "the president's speech was such that everybody found something in it to please them including the Russian Federation, unfortunately".


2014 Vrbětice ammunition warehouses explosions, Reactions following Czech government′s conclusions on Russia′s involvement, Reactions of other countries
On 17 April 2021, the day the Czech government made statements on Russia′s involvement and expulsion of Russian diplomats, the US Embassy in Prague stated that the United States "stands with its steadfast ally, the Czech Republic. We appreciate their significant action to impose costs on Russia for its dangerous actions on Czech soil." The Czech Republic was also fully supported by the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the United Kingdom, Dominic Raab, who stated that this event corresponded to the previous behaviour of Russian secret service agents, as was revealed, for example, in Salisbury.


2014 Vrbětice ammunition warehouses explosions, Reactions following Czech government′s conclusions on Russia′s involvement, Reactions of other countries
Other countries that were the first to express support for the Czech Republic included Slovakia, Latvia, Ukraine, Canada and Poland. The chairman of the Britain's Commons foreign affairs select committee, Tom Tugendhat, stated that "the explosions in Vrbětice are the murder of two Czech citizens and a direct attack on a NATO country." He believed that the level of relations with the Russian Federation needed to be reduced immediately. Tugendhat said that the member states of the North Atlantic Alliance should expel the Russian ambassadors.


2014 Vrbětice ammunition warehouses explosions, Reactions following Czech government′s conclusions on Russia′s involvement, Reactions of other countries
On 20 April 2021, Poland, Hungary, and Slovakia of the Visegrad Group issued the statement "We are ready to continue to build our resilience against subversion. We will carry out this both at the national level and in cooperation with our NATO allies, as well as within the framework of the European Union. The Foreign Ministers of Poland, Slovakia and Hungary express their solidarity with the latest actions taken by the Czech Republic, our close partner, ally and neighbor."


2014 Vrbětice ammunition warehouses explosions, Reactions following Czech government′s conclusions on Russia′s involvement, Reactions of other countries
On 22 April 2021, NATO′s North Atlantic Council issued a statement that concluded by saying, "Allies express deep concern over the destabilising actions Russia continues to carry out across the Euro-Atlantic area, including on Alliance territory, and stand in full solidarity with the Czech Republic."


2014 Vrbětice ammunition warehouses explosions, Reactions following Czech government′s conclusions on Russia′s involvement, Reactions of other countries
On the same day, Slovakia expelled three Russian diplomats (Russia had 28 diplomats accredited in Slovakia), Slovak prime minister Eduard Heger commenting that Slovakia was acting in solidarity with the Czech Republic and that the decision was made after a thorough evaluation of information provided by Slovak intelligence services in coordination with the services of allied countries.


2014 Vrbětice ammunition warehouses explosions, Reactions following Czech government′s conclusions on Russia′s involvement, Reactions of other countries
On 23 April 2021, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia expelled four Russian diplomats in solidarity with Prague.


2014 Vrbětice ammunition warehouses explosions, Reactions following Czech government′s conclusions on Russia′s involvement, Reactions of other countries
Russia expelled 20 diplomats as persona non grata from the Czech embassy in Moscow. Maria Zakharova called the evidence presented by Czech authorities "a lie". On 23 April 2021, Vladimir Putin signed a decree establishing a list of "unfriendly countries" which will be banned from hiring Russians at their diplomatic missions. On 14 May 2021, Russia placed both Czech Republic and the United States on a list of unfriendly countries.


2014 Vrbětice ammunition warehouses explosions, Reactions following Czech government′s conclusions on Russia′s involvement, Reactions of other countries
On 27 April 2021, the Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov stated that additional countries could be added to the unfriendly list, especially the Baltic countries of Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, and also Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom, and Ukraine, and on 10 June 2021, Poland was proposed to be added to the unfriendly list because Andrzej Duda had called the explosions a "violation of international law".


2014 Vuelta Internacional Femenina a Costa Rica
The 2014 Vuelta Internacional Femenina a Costa Rica was a stage race held in Costa Rica, with a UCI rating of 2.2. It was the third stage race of the 2014 Women's Elite cycling calendar.


2014 Vuelta a Andalucía
The 2014 Vuelta a Andalucía was the 60th edition of the Vuelta a Andalucía cycle race and was held on 19 February to 23 February 2014. The race started in Almería and finished in Fuengirola. The race was won by Alejandro Valverde.


2014 Vuelta a Burgos
The 2014 Vuelta a Burgos (English: 2014 Tour of Burgos) was the 36th edition of the Vuelta a Burgos, an annual bicycle stage race which toured the province of Burgos; it was held as part of the 2014 UCI Europe Tour, as a 2.HC classification event.


2014 Vuelta a Burgos, Teams
A total of 12 teams raced in the 2014 Vuelta a Burgos: 5 UCI ProTeams, 5 UCI Professional Continental teams, and 2 UCI Continental teams.


2014 Vuelta a Castilla y León
The 2014 Vuelta a Castilla y León was the 29th edition of the Vuelta a Castilla y León cycle race and was held on 16 May to 18 May 2014. The race started in Ciudad Rodrigo and finished in Bembibre. The race was won by David Belda.


2014 Vuelta a Colombia
The 2014 Vuelta a Colombia was the 64th edition of the Vuelta a Colombia cycling stage race, and was held from 6 to 17 August 2014. It was won by the Spanish cyclist Óscar Sevilla.


2014 Vuelta a Colombia, Teams
Twenty-one teams competed in the 2014 Vuelta a Colombia. These included UCI Professional Continental team Colombia and three UCI Continental teams.


2014 Vuelta a El Salvador
The 2014 Vuelta a El Salvador is the ninth edition of a stage race held in El Salvador, with a UCI rating of 2.1. It is the fourth stage race of the 2014 Women's Elite cycling calendar.


2014 Vuelta a España
The 2014 Vuelta a España took place between 23 August and 14 September 2014 and was the 69th edition of the race. It featured eight mountain stages, five hill stages, five flat stages, and three time trials (one team and two individual), two of which appeared at the beginning and end of the race. Jerez de la Frontera, on the Spanish south coast, hosted the opening stage. The Vuelta then went counterclockwise, through the south-east and east of the country before crossing the north and finishing in Santiago de Compostela. This was the first time in 21 years that the race has finished outside Madrid.


2014 Vuelta a España
The race was won for the third time by Spanish rider, Alberto Contador, of Tinkoff–Saxo. Contador went into the race uncertain of his form after crashing out of the Tour on the 10th stage, breaking his tibia. However, Contador found his form in the race earlier than expected, taking the red jersey on the 10th stage individual time trial and taking two key mountain stage wins on his way to victory. He won the race by 1' 10" over runner-up, Chris Froome of Team Sky.


2014 Vuelta a España
Like Contador, Froome also went into the race uncertain of his form after he crashed three times in two days during the Tour, leading to his withdrawal. However, Froome came to life during the third week, finishing second in three key mountain stages and taking time to move into second place overall. Spanish rider Alejandro Valverde of the Movistar Team completed the podium, finishing 40 seconds behind Froome and 1 minute and 50 seconds behind Contador. Valverde also took the sixth stage of the race going to La Zubia, the race's first mountain stage.


2014 Vuelta a España
In the race's other classifications, John Degenkolb of Giant–Shimano won the green jersey for the points classification. Degenkolb took four stage wins, the most by any rider in the race. The blue polka-dot jersey for the mountains classification was taken by Spaniard Luis Leon Sanchez of Caja Rural–Seguros RGA. Aside from taking the red jersey, Contador also won the white jersey for the combination classification. He took the first place in the general classification, third place in the points classification and second place in the mountains classification. Team Katusha took the team classification for accumulating the lowest time from their three best cyclists.


2014 Vuelta a España, Teams
The 18 UCI World Tour teams were automatically entitled to start the race; four wildcard teams were also invited.


2014 Vuelta a España, Pre-race favourites
Before the start of the race, defending champion, Chris Horner, 2014 Giro d'Italia champion Nairo Quintana, Joaquim Rodríguez and Alejandro Valverde were among the favourites for overall victory. After abandoning the Tour de France, Chris Froome and Alberto Contador announced they would compete in the Vuelta. Other possible contenders could emerge from Wilco Kelderman, Carlos Betancur, Fabio Aru, Thibaut Pinot, Ryder Hesjedal, Rigoberto Urán, Andrew Talansky and Dan Martin.


2014 Vuelta a España, Pre-race favourites
The day before the Vuelta began, Chris Horner was withdrawn from the race due to low levels of cortisol. This is because Lampre Merida (UAE Team Emirates) are part of the Mouvement pour un cyclisme crédible (MPCC) which forbids cyclists from racing when cortisol concentrations drop below a specified threshold. On stage 11, Nairo Quintana withdrew from the race after crashing twice in two days.


2014 Vuelta a España, Classification leadership table
There were four main classifications contested in the 2014 Vuelta a España, with the most important being the general classification. The general classification was calculated by adding each cyclist's finishing times on each stage. The cyclist with the least accumulated time was the race leader, identified by the red jersey; the winner of this classification was considered the winner of the Vuelta. In 2014, there were time bonuses given on mass-start stages; ten seconds were awarded to the stage winner, with six for second and four for third.


2014 Vuelta a España, Classification leadership table
Additionally, there was a points classification, which awards a green jersey. In the points classification, cyclists get points for finishing among the best in a stage finish, or in intermediate sprints. The cyclist with the most points led the classification, and is identified with a green jersey. There was also a mountains classification. The organisation categorised some climbs as either Categoria Especial, first, second or third category; points for this classification were won by the first cyclists that reach the top of these climbs, with more points available for the higher-categorised climbs. The cyclist with the most points led the classification, and was identified with a blue polka dot jersey.


2014 Vuelta a España, Classification leadership table
The fourth individual classification was the combination classification, marked by the white jersey. This classification is calculated by adding the numeral ranks of each cyclist in the general, points and mountains classifications – a rider must have a score in all classifications possible to qualify for the combination classification – with the lowest cumulative total signifying the winner of this competition.


2014 Vuelta a España, Classification leadership table
For the team classification, the times of the best three cyclists per team on each stage were added; the leading team is the team with the lowest total time. For the combativity award, a jury gives points after each stage to the cyclists they considered most combative. The cyclist with the most votes in all stages leads the classification. For the daily combative winner, the rider in question donned a dossard with a red background, on the following stage.


2014 Vuelta a España, Stage 1 to Stage 11
The 2014 Vuelta a España began on 23 August, with Stage 21 scheduled for 14 September. The 2014 edition of the cycle race began with the only team time trial stage of the race, in Jerez de la Frontera.


2014 Vuelta a España, Stage 12 to Stage 21
The 2014 Vuelta a España began on 23 August, with Stage 21 scheduled for 14 September. The 2014 edition of the cycle race began with the only team time trial stage of the race, in Jerez de la Frontera.


2014 Vuelta a Murcia
The 2014 Vuelta a Murcia was the 30th professional edition of the Vuelta a Murcia cycle race and was held on 1 March 2014. The race started in Beniel and finished at the Castle of Lorca. The race was won by Alejandro Valverde.


2014 Värmland county election
Värmland County or held a county council election on 14 September 2014, on the same day as the general and municipal elections.


2014 Värmland county election, Results
The number of seats remained at 81 with the Social Democrats winning the most at 31, a drop of two from 2010. The party received 40.2 % of the 179,280 valid ballots cast.


2014 Västerbotten county election
Västerbotten County held a regional council election on 14 September 2014, on the same day as the general and municipal elections.


2014 Västerbotten county election, Results
The number of seats remained at 71 with the Social Democrats winning the most at 30, a drop of two from 2010. The party received around 41.1 % of an overall vote of 171,729.


2014 Västernorrland county election
Västernorrland County held a county council election on 14 September 2014 on the same day as the general and municipal elections.


2014 Västernorrland county election, Results
The number of seats remained at 77 with the Social Democrats winning the most at 38, an increase of six from in 2010. The party received just below 48 % of the overall vote of 158,428.


2014 Västmanland wildfire
The 2014 Västmanland wildfire was a wildfire that broke out on the afternoon of 31 July 2014 on the border between Sala Municipality and Surahammar Municipality in Västmanland, Sweden. It is Sweden's largest wildfire in 40 years. After an EU appeal, Italy and France provided firefighting aircraft.


2014 Västmanland wildfire
On 4 August 2014, the evacuation of residents began in Gammelby alongside Route 668 east of Lake Virsbo, Västervåla and Ängelsberg. As of 5 August 2014, over one thousand people were forced to evacuate their homes, and the town of Norberg, with about 4500 residents, was being considered for evacuation. One person was confirmed killed by the fire, a man in his 30s who was reported missing. His badly burned body was found near Stabäck, Västmanland. The fire was declared a national emergency. It encompassed over 15,000 hectares and was located northwest of Sala. The Swedish Armed Forces were mobilized, with about 100 personnel providing support to the firefighters as of 7 August.


2014 Västmanland wildfire
It was reported that nine volunteers were surrounded by fire and had to be rescued by professional firefighters on 5 August. Because of this, volunteer firefighting help from the public was no longer accepted. Firefighters found a 42-year-old man in the forest who was badly burned but still alive. The police reported that he was taken directly to a hospital for treatment.


2014 Västmanland wildfire
The wildfire threatened the UNESCO World Heritage Site Engelsberg Ironworks. The owners of the Ironworks, Nordstjernan, rented two helicopters of their own to water the area close to the site.


2014 Västmanland wildfire
The Swedish police started a preliminary investigation of the cause of the fire, to see if it was caused by criminal negligence. According to local media, a driver of a ground-preparation vehicle stated that the fire started in his vehicle and that no fire watch was posted despite a very high risk of fire. Although the 2014 Swedish heat wave did not cause the fire, the exceptionally hot and dry conditions of the summer of 2014 enabled the fire to spread and intensify.


2014 Vålerenga Fotball season
Vålerenga Fotball is a Norwegian association football club from Oslo. They play their home games at Ullevaal Stadion which has a capacity of 28,972. During the 2014/15 campaign they will compete in the following competitions: Tippeligean, NM Cupen.


2014 Vålerenga Fotball season, Squad
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.


2014 Vålerenga Fotball season, Squad, On Loan
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.


2014 Vålerenga Fotball season, Transfers, Winter
In:Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.


2014 Vålerenga Fotball season, Transfers, Winter
Out:Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.


2014 Vålerenga Fotball season, Transfers, Summer
In:Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.


2014 Vålerenga Fotball season, Transfers, Summer
Out:Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.


2014 W-League (Australia)
The 2014 W-League season was the seventh season of the W-League, the Australian national women's association football competition. The regular season started on 13 September 2014 and concluded on 7 December 2014. The Grand Final took place on 21 December 2014.


2014 W-League (Australia)
Due to Australia hosting the 2015 AFC Asian Cup, the season was scheduled to take place entirely in the 2014 calendar year instead of continuing in to 2015.


2014 W-League (Australia), Clubs, Foreign players
The following do not fill a Visa position:A Australian citizens who have chosen to represent another national team;G Guest Players


2014 W-League (Australia), Season statistics, Goalscorers
Goal scored from penalty kick      Two goals scored from penalty kick


2014 W-League (Australia), International competition
The W-League was represented in the third edition of the International Women's Club Championship, known for sponsorship reasons as the Nestlé Cup.


2014 W-League (Australia), International competition
Melbourne Victory (the winners of the 2013–14 season) participated in the tournament, which took place from 30 November until 8 December 2013, and finished in sixth place (out of 6 teams).


2014 W-League Grand Final (December)
The 2014 W-League Grand Final took place at nib Stadium in Perth, Western Australia on 21 December 2014.


2014 W-League Grand Final (February)
The 2014 W-League Grand Final took place at Lakeside Stadium in Melbourne, Australia on 23 February 2014. It was the final match in the W-League 2013–14 season, and was played between third-placed Melbourne Victory and fourth-placed Brisbane Roar. Melbourne Victory won the match 2–0 thanks to goals by Lisa De Vanna and guest player Lauren Barnes.


2014 WA State Challenge Cup
Western Australian soccer clubs competed in 2014 for the Football West State Cup, known for sponsorship reasons as the Cool Ridge Cup. Clubs entered from the newly formed National Premier Leagues WA, the two divisions of the State League, as well as a limited number of teams from various divisions of the 2014 Sunday League competition. This knockout competition was won by Bayswater City, their second title.


2014 WA State Challenge Cup
The competition also served as Qualifying Rounds for the 2014 FFA Cup. In addition to the A-League club Perth Glory, the two finalists qualified for the final rounds of the 2014 FFA Cup, entering at the Round of 32.


2014 WA State Challenge Cup, Preliminary round
A total of 39 Western Australian teams took part in this stage of the competition and 3 teams were given a Bye to the First Round. 24 clubs from the All Flags State League Division 1 and State League Division 2 and 15 clubs from various divisions of the 2014 Sunday League were admitted into the competition at this stage. Matches in this round were played on 29 March 2014.


2014 WA State Challenge Cup, First round
A total of 32 teams took part in this stage of the competition. 11 of the 12 Clubs from the National Premier Leagues WA entered into the competition at this stage, with the exception of Perth Glory Youth who were not eligible. Matches in this round were played on 5 April 2014.


2014 WA State Challenge Cup, Second round
A total of 16 teams took part in this stage of the competition. Matches in this round were played on 21 April 2014.


2014 WA State Challenge Cup, Quarter finals
A total of 8 teams took part in this stage of the competition. Matches in this round were played on 10 May 2014.


2014 WA State Challenge Cup, Semi finals
A total of 4 teams took part in this stage of the competition. Matches in this round were played on 2 June 2014. The two victorious teams in this round qualified for the 2014 FFA Cup Round of 32.


2014 WA State Challenge Cup, Final
The 2014 Cool Ridge Cup Final was held at Stirling Lions' home ground of Macedonia Park on 19 July 2014.


2014 WAC Men's Basketball Tournament
The 2014 WAC Men's Basketball Tournament was the postseason men's basketball tournament for the Western Athletic Conference, held from March 13–15, 2014 at the Orleans Arena in Paradise, Nevada, with the champion New Mexico State Aggies receiving an automatic bid into the 2014 NCAA Tournament. This was the third consecutive year the WAC Tournament took place in Las Vegas.


2014 WAC Men's Basketball Tournament, Format
Grand Canyon did not compete in the 2014 men's basketball tournament. As a D2 to D1 transitioning school, they are ineligible to compete in the NCAA tournament until the 2018 season, so they could not win the conference tournament since the winner received an automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament, in which they were ineligible to participate. However Grand Canyon was eligible to win the regular season title and was eligible to compete in the NIT, CIT, or CBI, had they been invited.


2014 WAC Men's Basketball Tournament, Format
Eight teams competed in the 2014 tournament in a traditional single-elimination style tournament, with 1 playing 8, 2 playing 7, 3 playing 6, and 4 playing 5 on Thursday, March 13. The winners met in the semifinals on Friday, March 14 with the late game airing on an ESPN Network. The championship aired Saturday, March 15, also on an ESPN Network.


2014 WAC Women's Basketball Tournament
The 2014 WAC Women's Basketball Tournament will be held on March 12–15, 2014 at the Orleans Arena in  Paradise, Nevada. This will be the third consecutive year the WAC Tournament takes place in Vegas.


2014 WAC Women's Basketball Tournament, Format
Grand Canyon will not compete in the 2014 men's basketball tournament. As a D2 to D1 transitioning school, they are ineligible to compete in the NCAA tournament until the 2018 season, so they cannot win the conference tournament since the winner gets an automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament. However Grand Canyon will be eligible to win the regular season title and is eligible to compete in the WNIT or WBI should they be invited. 8 teams will compete in the 2014 tournament in a traditional single-elimination style tournament, with 1 playing 8, 2 playing 7, 3 playing 6, and 4 playing 5 on Wednesday, March 12. The winners will meet in the semifinals on Friday, March 14. The championship will air Saturday, March 15.


2014 WAC Women's Basketball Tournament, Game Summaries
Game Summaries will be added once the tournament bracket is finalized.


2014 WAFF Championship
The 2013-2014 West Asian Football Federation Championship (marketed as Qatar 2013) was the 8th WAFF Championship, an international tournament for member nations of the West Asian Football Federation. The tournament was hosted by Qatar from 25 December 2013 to 7 January 2014 and the host country won the tournament for the first time. The 2012 champions, Syria, did not defend their title.


2014 WAFF Championship, Venues
It was announced in October 2013 that three venues would be used. On 4 December, it was announced that the Suheim Bin Hamad Stadium would not feature in the tournament anymore.


2014 WAFF Championship, Draw
The draw took place on 11 November 2013 in Doha, Qatar. The nine teams were drawn into three groups based on team rankings. All groups included three teams each.


2014 WAFF Championship, Match officials
The following is the list of referees the West Asian Football Federation appointed for the tournament.


2014 WAFF Championship, Group stage, Ranking of second-placed teams
At the end of the group stage, a comparison will be made between the second-placed teams of each group. The best second-placed team advance to the semifinals.


2014 WAFF Championship, Statistics, Final standings
Note: As per statistical convention in football, matches decided in extra time are counted as wins and losses, while matches decided by penalty shoot-outs are counted as draws.


2014 WAFF Championship squads
The 2014 WAFF Championship is an international football tournament held in Qatar from 25 December 2013 to 7 January 2014. The nine national teams involved in the tournament were required to register a squad of 23 players, including three goalkeepers. Only players in these squads were eligible to take part in the tournament.


2014 WAFF Women's Championship
The 2014 West Asian Football Federation Women's Championship tournament was held from 15 to 19 April 2014 in Amman, Jordan. It was the fifth edition of the West Asian Football Federation Women's Championship.


2014 WAFF Women's Championship
The tournament was won by Jordan, who won all of their games.


2014 WAFF Women's Championship, Teams and format
Four teams entered the tournament. A single round robin was played. Group was announced on 27 March 2014.


2014 WAFL season
The 2014 WAFL season was the 130th season of the various incarnations of the West Australian Football League (WAFL). The season began on 22 March 2014 and concluded on 21 September 2014 with the 2014 WAFL Grand Final. West Perth entered the season as reigning premiers after defeating East Perth by 49 points in the 2013 WAFL Grand Final at Patersons Stadium.


2014 WAFL season
The 2014 season was the first to feature Western Australia’s professional AFL clubs West Coast and Fremantle engage in direct alignments with East Perth and Peel Thunder respectively.


2014 WAFL season
Subiaco were the premiers for the 2014 season, after they defeated favourites East Perth by 16 points at Patersons Stadium.


2014 WAFL season, Premiership season fixtures, Round 1
After their big win, Perth found themselves on top of the ladder for the first time since the corresponding fixture of 2008. Over the next 22 rounds of football the Demons occupied all nine spots on the WAFL league ladder, becoming the first team to achieve this. Their ladder positions after each round were 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 6, 4, 5, 6, 6, 7, 6, 7, 7, 7, 8, 8, 8, 9, 9, 9, 9, 9.


2014 WAFL season, Premiership season fixtures, Round 18
West Perth’s score was its lowest for 95 years since it scored 1.5 (11), also against the Royals, at Perth Oval in the fourth round of 1919. The previous lower score by any WAFL club was 2.5 (17) by East Fremantle in the fourth round of 2006.


2014 WAFL season, Foxtel Cup
The two 2013 Grand Finalists West Perth and East Perth were invited to compete in the Foxtel Cup knockout competition in 2014. Their performances are shown below:


2014 WAFL season, State game
The WAFL representative team competed against the North East Australian Football League (NEAFL) representative team on May 24 in Sydney.


2014 WBPF World Championship
The 6th WBPF World Championship was a major international competition in bodybuilding and fitness, as governed by the World Bodybuilding and Physique Federation (WBPF). It took place in Bombay Exhibition Centre, Mumbai, India from December 5 to December 10, 2014. More than 300 contestants from 33 countries participated in the championship.


2014 WBPF World Championship
The competition was covered by several TV stations and WBPF TV covered the news via Facebook for readers to watch the competition live.


2014 WBPF World Championship
This event was organized by IBBF led by President Baba Madhok, Secretary-General Chetan Pathare and their Organizing Chairman led by Madhukar Talwalkar and Organizing Secretary Vikaram Rothe and the Organizing Committee of this event.


2014 WBPF World Championship
This championship was preceded by 2013 WBPF World Championship held in Budaors, Hungary and succeeded by 2015 WBPF World Championship held in Bangkok, Thailand.


2014 WBPF World Championship, Host announcement
On August 17, 2014 World Bodybuilding and Physique Sports Federation (WBPF) made an official announcement on their website that 6th WBPF World Championship will be held in Mumbai, India, from December 5 to December 10, 2014.


2014 WBPF World Championship, Host announcement
Datuk Paul Chua, Secretary General of WBPF confirmed this decision after inspection meeting with Indian government and sports officials.


2014 WBPF World Championship, Nations participants
More than 300 contestants from 33 countries participated in 6th edition of the championship. There were competitors from all continents except North America.


2014 WBPF World Championship, Official Results
Organizator of the championship, Indian Bodybuilding Federation (IBBF) has published official results in January 2015.


2014 WBPF World Championship, Official Results, Overall winners
Individual overall winner is Peter Molnar of Hungary who won gold medal in Bodybuilding (100 kg) category. Team overall winner in both, men's and women's competition is national team of Thailand who won 8 gold, 5 silver and 5 bronze medals, the most among participants.


2014 WBPF World Championship, Medals table by nation
Participants from 20 different countries were among the winners. Most medals won national team of India (twenty), most gold medals have been awarded to Thailand's contestants (eight). There were total of 102 medals awarded in 34 categories (medals of overall winners aren't included).


2014 WCHA Men's Ice Hockey Tournament
The 2014 WCHA Men's Ice Hockey Tournament was played between March 13 and March 22, 2014, at four conference arenas and the Van Andel Arena in Grand Rapids, Michigan. By winning the tournament, Minnesota State was awarded the Broadmoor Trophy and received the WCHA's automatic bid to the 2014 NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Tournament.


2014 WCHA Men's Ice Hockey Tournament, Format
The first round of the postseason tournament features a best-of-three games format. The top eight or ten conference teams participate in the tournament. Teams are seeded No. 1 through No. 8 according to their final conference standing, with a tiebreaker system used to seed teams with an identical number of points accumulated. The top four seeded teams each earn home ice and host one of the lower seeded teams.


2014 WCHA Men's Ice Hockey Tournament, Format
The winners of the first round series advance to the Van Andel Arena for the WCHA Final Five, a holdover from previous tournaments where it was used as the collective name of the quarterfinal, semifinal, and championship rounds. The Final Five uses a single-elimination format. Teams are re-seeded No. 1 through No. 4 according to the final regular season conference standings.


2014 WCHA Men's Ice Hockey Tournament, Format, Conference Standings
Note: GP = Games Played; W = Wins; L = Losses; T = Ties; PTS = Points; GF = Goals For; GA = Goals Against


2014 WDF Europe Cup
The 2014 WDF Europe Cup was the 19th edition of the WDF Europe Cup darts tournament, organised by the World Darts Federation. It was held in Bucharest, Romania from September 23 to 27.


2014 WDF Europe Cup, Entered Teams
31 countries/associations entered a men's selection in the event. 25 countries/associations entered a womans's selection in the event.


2014 WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship
The 2014 WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship was the 16th WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship, held February 19–23 at The Golf Club at Dove Mountain in Marana, Arizona, northwest of Tucson. It was the first of four World Golf Championships in 2014. With a field of 64 competitors, the five-day six-round event began on Wednesday, with the semifinals and finals on Sunday. Jason Day won his first WGC title at the 23rd hole of the final match with Victor Dubuisson.


2014 WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship
This was the eighth and final edition of the championship contested in Marana, the host since 2007. The tournament moved back to California in 2015, held in early May at TPC Harding Park in San Francisco, and went to Austin, Texas, in March 2016.


2014 WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship
This was also the final edition in which the entire tournament was single-elimination, as the first two rounds were replaced by round-robin play in 2015, with sixteen players advancing to the knock-out bracket on the weekend.


2014 WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship, Brackets
The Championship is a single elimination match play event. The field consists of the top 64 players available from the Official World Golf Ranking on February 9, 2014. seeded according to the February 16 rankings.


2014 WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship, Brackets
Three of the top four ranked players, Tiger Woods (ranked #1), Adam Scott (2), and Phil Mickelson (4) chose not to enter and were replaced by Richard Sterne (65), Scott Piercy (66), and Kiradech Aphibarnrat (67).


2014 WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship, Brackets
Three players were appearing in their first WGC event: Victor Dubuisson, Chris Kirk and Patrick Reed.


2014 WGC-Bridgestone Invitational
The 2014 WGC-Bridgestone Invitational was a professional golf tournament held July 31 – August 3 on the South Course of Firestone Country Club in Akron, Ohio. It was the 16th WGC-Bridgestone Invitational tournament, and the third of the World Golf Championships events in 2014. Rory McIlroy won the tournament.


2014 WGC-Bridgestone Invitational, Venue, Course layout
The South Course was designed by Bert Way and redesigned by Robert Trent Jones in 1960.


2014 WGC-Bridgestone Invitational, Field
The field consists of players drawn primarily from the Official World Golf Ranking and the winners of the world-wide tournaments with the strongest fields.


2014 WGC-Bridgestone Invitational, Field
1. Playing members of the 2013 United States and International Presidents Cup teams.


2014 WGC-Bridgestone Invitational, Field
Keegan Bradley (2,3), Ángel Cabrera (4), Jason Day (2,3), Brendon de Jonge, Graham DeLaet (2,3), Jason Dufner (2,3,4), Ernie Els, Branden Grace, Bill Haas (2,3), Zach Johnson (2,3,4), Matt Kuchar (2,3,4), Marc Leishman, Hunter Mahan (2,3), Hideki Matsuyama (2,3), Phil Mickelson (2,3), Louis Oosthuizen (4), Charl Schwartzel (2,3), Adam Scott (2,3,4,5), Webb Simpson (2,3,4), Brandt Snedeker (2,3), Jordan Spieth (2,3), Richard Sterne, Steve Stricker (2,3), Tiger Woods (2,3)


2014 WGC-Bridgestone Invitational, Field
2. The top 50 players from the Official World Golf Ranking as of July 21, 2014.


2014 WGC-Bridgestone Invitational, Field
Thomas Bjørn (3,4), Jonas Blixt (3), Luke Donald (3,4), Jamie Donaldson (3), Victor Dubuisson (3,4), Harris English (3), Matt Every (3,4), Rickie Fowler (3), Jim Furyk (3), Stephen Gallacher (3,4), Sergio García (3,4,5), Mikko Ilonen (3,4), Thongchai Jaidee (3,4), Miguel Ángel Jiménez (3,4), Martin Kaymer (3,4), Chris Kirk (3,4), Joost Luiten (3), Graeme McDowell (3,4), Rory McIlroy (3,4), Francesco Molinari (3), Ryan Moore (3,4), Kevin Na (3), Ian Poulter (3), Patrick Reed (3,4), Justin Rose (3,4), Henrik Stenson (3,4), Kevin Streelman (3,4), Brendon Todd (3,4), Jimmy Walker (3,4), Bubba Watson (3,4), Lee Westwood (3,4), Gary Woodland (3)


2014 WGC-Bridgestone Invitational, Field
3. The top 50 players from the Official World Golf Ranking as of July 28, 2014.


2014 WGC-Bridgestone Invitational, Field
4. Tournament winners, whose victories are considered official, of tournaments from the Federation Tours since the prior season's Bridgestone Invitational with an Official World Golf Ranking Strength of Field Rating of 115 points or more.


2014 WGC-Bridgestone Invitational, Field
Steven Bowditch, Tim Clark, Ben Crane, Gonzalo Fernández-Castaño, Brian Harman, Russell Henley, J. B. Holmes, David Howell, Matt Jones, Pablo Larrazábal, Alexander Lévy, David Lynn, Noh Seung-yul, John Senden, Kevin Stadler, Scott Stallings, Fabrizio Zanotti


2014 WGC-Bridgestone Invitational, Field
5. The winner of selected tournaments from each of the following tours:


2014 WGC-Bridgestone Invitational, Field
Nine players were appearing in their first WGC event: Steven Bowditch,  Matt Every, Estanislao Goya, Brian Harman, Matt Jones, Alexander Lévy, Yoshitaka Takeya, Brendon Todd and Fabrizio Zanotti.


2014 WGC-Bridgestone Invitational, Round summaries, Second round
Sergio García birdied his last seven holes, tying the course record of 61 (−9), which included a new course record of 27 (−8) on the back nine.


2014 WGC-Bridgestone Invitational, Round summaries, Third round
With threatening weather in the forecast, the field went off early in the morning from split tees in threesomes. A weather delay in the early afternoon affected the final several groups, but all rounds were finished.


2014 WGC-Bridgestone Invitational, Round summaries, Final round
The field went off the first tee in conventional pairs on Sunday, but a midday weather delay of over an hour was incurred before half the field teed off.


2014 WGC-Cadillac Championship
The 2014 WGC-Cadillac Championship was a golf tournament played March 6–9 on the TPC Blue Monster course at Trump National Doral in Doral, Florida, a suburb west of Miami. It was the 15th WGC-Cadillac Championship tournament, and the second of the World Golf Championships events to be staged in 2014. Patrick Reed won his first WGC event and became the youngest WGC champion at age 23.


2014 WGC-Cadillac Championship, Course layout
The tournament is played on the TPC Blue Monster course.


2014 WGC-Cadillac Championship, Field
The field consists of players from the top of the Official World Golf Ranking and the money lists/Order of Merit from the six main professional golf tours. Each player is classified according to the first category in which he qualified, but other categories are shown in parentheses.


2014 WGC-Cadillac Championship, Field
1. The top 30 players from the final 2013 FedExCup Points List


2014 WGC-Cadillac Championship, Field
Keegan Bradley (7,9), Roberto Castro, Brendon de Jonge, Graham DeLaet (7,9), Luke Donald (7,9), Jason Dufner (7,9), Jim Furyk (7,9), Sergio García (2,7,8,9), Bill Haas (7,9), Billy Horschel (7,9), Dustin Johnson (7,9,10), Zach Johnson (7,9,10), Matt Kuchar (7,9), Hunter Mahan (7,9), Phil Mickelson (7,9), D. A. Points, Justin Rose (2,7,9), Charl Schwartzel (7,8,9), Adam Scott (4,7,9), Webb Simpson (7,9,10), Brandt Snedeker (7,9), Jordan Spieth (7,9), Henrik Stenson (2,7,9), Kevin Streelman (7,9), Steve Stricker (7,9), Nick Watney (7,9), Boo Weekley, Gary Woodland, Tiger Woods (7,9)


2014 WGC-Cadillac Championship, Field
Jason Day (7,9) withdrew prior to the first round with a thumb injury.


2014 WGC-Cadillac Championship, Field
2. The top 20 players from the final 2013 European Tour Race to Dubai


2014 WGC-Cadillac Championship, Field
Thomas Bjørn (7,8,9), Jamie Donaldson (7,8,9), Victor Dubuisson (7,8,9), Ernie Els (7,8,9), Gonzalo Fernández-Castaño (7,9), Stephen Gallacher (7,8,9), Branden Grace (8), Joost Luiten (7,9), Matteo Manassero (7,9), Graeme McDowell (7,9), Francesco Molinari (7,9), Ian Poulter (7,9), Brett Rumford, Richard Sterne, Thongchai Jaidee, Peter Uihlein, Lee Westwood (7,9)


2014 WGC-Cadillac Championship, Field
3. The top 2 players from the final 2013 Japan Golf Tour Order of Merit


2014 WGC-Cadillac Championship, Field
4. The top 2 players from the final 2013 PGA Tour of Australasia Order of Merit


2014 WGC-Cadillac Championship, Field
5. The top 2 players from the final 2013 Sunshine Tour Order of Merit


2014 WGC-Cadillac Championship, Field
6. The top 2 players from the final 2013 Asian Tour Order of Merit


2014 WGC-Cadillac Championship, Field
7. The top 50 players from the Official World Golf Ranking, as of February 24, 2014


2014 WGC-Cadillac Championship, Field
Jonas Blixt (9), Harris English (9,10), Rickie Fowler (9), Miguel Ángel Jiménez (9), Martin Kaymer, Chris Kirk (9,10), Rory McIlroy (9), Ryan Moore (9,10), Louis Oosthuizen (8,9), Patrick Reed (9,10), Jimmy Walker (9,10), Bubba Watson (9,10)


2014 WGC-Cadillac Championship, Field
8. The top 10 players from the 2014 European Tour Race to Dubai, as of February 24, 2014


2014 WGC-Cadillac Championship, Field
9. The top 50 players from the Official World Golf Ranking, as of March 3, 2014


2014 WGC-Cadillac Championship, Field
10. The top 10 players from the 2014 FedExCup Points List, as of March 3, 2014


2014 WGC-Cadillac Championship, Round summaries, First round
Delays caused by thunderstorms meant that only six players completed their first round on Thursday. Five players led overnight at 3-under-par, including Harris English (the only one of the five to have completed his round), Jason Dufner, Hunter Mahan, Francesco Molinari and Patrick Reed.


2014 WGC-HSBC Champions
The 2014 WGC-HSBC Champions was a golf tournament played 6–9 November 2014 at the Sheshan Golf Club in Shanghai, China. It was the sixth WGC-HSBC Champions tournament, and the fourth of four World Golf Championships events held in the 2014 calendar year.


2014 WGC-HSBC Champions
Bubba Watson won the tournament at the first playoff hole, holing a 20-foot (6 m) putt for a birdie at the 18th hole while Tim Clark took a par 5. Watson and Clark had tied for the lead at 277 after 72 holes. Watson seemed to have ruined his chance of winning by bogeying the 16th hole of the final round and taking a double bogey at the 17th. However he then holed out from a greenside bunker for an eagle at the last hole to take the lead. Clark then holed a 4-foot (1.2 m) putt for a birdie at the last to force a playoff. In the final group, Martin Kaymer, Graeme McDowell, and Hiroshi Iwata all needed a birdie at the last to join the playoff but none of the three made it.


2014 WGC-HSBC Champions, Field
The following is a list of players who qualified for the 2014 WGC-HSBC Champions. "Top rated" means tournaments with the highest "strength of field" rating (SOF) in the Official World Golf Ranking (these tournaments were pre-determined based on OWGR from 2012 to 2013 HSBC Champions). Players who qualify from multiple categories are listed in the first category in which they are eligible with the other qualifying categories in parentheses next to the player's name.


2014 WGC-HSBC Champions, Field
Tim Clark, Matt Every, Russell Henley, J. B. Holmes, Billy Horschel (12), Matt Jones, Chris Kirk (12), Hunter Mahan (12), Hideki Matsuyama (12), Ryan Moore (12), Justin Rose (5,12), Adam Scott (9,12), John Senden, Kevin Stadler, Scott Stallings, Kevin Streelman (12)


2014 WGC-HSBC Champions, Field
Rickie Fowler (12), Sergio García (5,10,12), Ryan Palmer (12), Jordan Spieth (12), Jimmy Walker (12)


2014 WGC-HSBC Champions, Field
Victor Dubuisson (12), Pablo Larrazábal, Graeme McDowell (12), Louis Oosthuizen, Marcel Siem, Henrik Stenson (12), Oliver Wilson


2014 WGC-HSBC Champions, Field
Thomas Bjørn (8,12), Jonas Blixt, George Coetzee (8), Jamie Donaldson (12), Ernie Els (12), Tommy Fleetwood, Stephen Gallacher (12), Mikko Ilonen (12), Thongchai Jaidee (12), Miguel Ángel Jiménez (12), Alexander Lévy, Shane Lowry, Joost Luiten (12), Charl Schwartzel (8,12), Marc Warren


2014 WGC-HSBC Champions, Field
Luke Donald (12), Hiroshi Iwata (OoM), Kim Hyung-sung (OoM), Yoshitaka Takeya


2014 WGC-HSBC Champions, Field
Darren Fichardt (OoM), Hennie Otto (OoM), Dawie van der Walt (OoM), Jaco van Zyl (OoM)


2014 WGC-HSBC Champions, Field
Michael Hendry (OoM), Jin Jeong (OoM), Brody Ninyette (OoM), Thorbjørn Olesen


2014 WGC-HSBC Champions, Field
Felipe Aguilar, Jason Knutzon (OoM), Anirban Lahiri (OoM), Antonio Lascuña (OoM), David Lipsky (OoM), Lee Westwood (12)


2014 WGC-HSBC Champions, Field
Dou Zecheng, Hu Mu, Li Haotong, Liang Wenchong, Wu Ashun, Zhang Lianwei


2014 WGC-HSBC Champions, Field
Keegan Bradley, Graham DeLaet, Jason Dufner, Bill Haas, Marc Leishman, Kevin Na, Ian Poulter, Brandt Snedeker, Brendon Todd, Gary Woodland


2014 WGC-HSBC Champions, Round summaries, First round
Graeme McDowell shot a 5-under-par 67 to take a two-stroke lead over six players, including 2011 champion Martin Kaymer. A strong wind, thick rough and narrow fairways made scoring difficult with only 27 players breaking par.


2014 WGC-HSBC Champions, Round summaries, Second round
Graeme McDowell shot a second straight round of 67 to take a three-stroke lead over Ian Poulter.