A skier sets off from the peak of Mount Aigba in the Rosa Khutor Extreme Park, around 31 miles from Russia's Black Sea resort of Sochi, on Feb. 13.

A brand new gondola system extends above the clouds on the plateau of Rosa Khutor, a venue for the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics near Sochi on Feb. 13.

A skier sets off from the peak of Mount Aigba in the Rosa Khutor Extreme Park, around 31 miles from Russia's Black Sea resort of Sochi, on Feb. 13.

Tatyana Samokhval, left, daughter of local resident Sergei Khlystov, embraces her crying mother Valentina Khlystova in front of their partially demolished house in the Black Sea city of Sochi, Russia. The workers arrived at Sergei Khlystov's gate on a Friday evening to bulldoze his home and clear a path for sewage pipes to the Olympic village being built in the Russian city of Sochi. Khlystov and his 33-year-old son-in-law, Maxim Samokhval, at first tried to block the bulldozers but then stood aside and watched as the two-storey house was destroyed. The earthmovers ended Khlystov's battle to stay in his house, one of the last razed in the Mirny neighbourhood to make way for the Winter Olympics in 2014. Picture taken Sept. 19.

An excavator demolishes a house, owned by the Khlystov family, in the Black Sea city of Sochi, Russia.

A woman sunbathes as men fish on a lake outside the Black Sea resort of Sochi, Russia, on Aug. 7.