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
Winter Olympic Games in the Nordic countries and Russia. In the latter it's considered a national sport. It was demonstrated at the Oslo Games. Ice stock sport, a German variant of curling, was demonstrated in 1936 in Germany and 1964 in Austria. The ski ballet event, later known as ski-acro, was demonstrated in 1988 and 1992. Skijöring, skiing behind dogs, was a demonstration sport in St. Moritz in 1928. A sled-dog race was held at Lake Placid in 1932. Speed skiing was demonstrated in Albertville at the 1992 Winter Olympics. Winter pentathlon, a variant of the modern pentathlon, was included as a demonstration