Sochi 2014: Will social media foil Putin's grand Winter Olympics plan? - With 150 million tweets across 16 days, and 80,000 a minute when Usain Bolt won his 200 meters title, plus 1 billion official page impressions on Facebook, the London 2012 Olympics was crowned as the "first social media Games." But what impact will Sochi's Winter Olympics have next February? Will Vladimir Putin's grand plan to transform an ailing region, using sport to make a bold statement of intent -- as China did with its Olympics in 2008 and Qatar hopes to do with soccer's World Cup in 2020 -- be derailed by increasingly web savvy activist groups?

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