Mario & Sonic at the Sochi 2014 Olympic Winter Games while competing in various events hosted by Orbot and Cubot from "Sonic Colors" and "Sonic Lost World". "Mario & Sonic at the Sochi 2014 Olympic Winter Games" received generally mixed reviews, with most critics praising the visuals and the online mode, but criticising the game's similarity to previous "Mario & Sonic series" games and motion controls. It has an aggregate score of 54.81% on GameRankings and 55/100 at Metacritic. Gaz Plant of Nintendo Life gave the game 6 out of 10, summarising that it "...feels like a minor progression, and not the huge leap you might be expecting. Taking a
Olympic Athletes from Russia at the 2018 Winter Olympics the Olympics to meddle in the Russian presidential election". On 5 December 2017, the IOC announced that the Russian Olympic Committee had been suspended from the 2018 Winter Olympics with immediate effect. Athletes who had no previous drug violations and a consistent history of drug testing were to be allowed to compete under the Olympic Flag as an "Olympic Athlete from Russia" (OAR). Under the terms of the decree, Russian government officials were barred from the Games, and neither the country's flag nor anthem would be present (the Olympic Flag and Olympic Anthem would be used instead). On 20 December