name some games it is associated with?
Basketball, handball, futsal, volleyball and ice hockey etc
Russia
Soviet and later Russian athletes have always been in the top four for the number of gold medals collected at the Summer Olympics. Soviet gymnasts, track-and-field athletes, weightlifters, wrestlers, boxers, fencers, shooters, cross country skiers, biathletes, speed skaters and figure skaters were consistently among the best in the world, along with Soviet basketball, handball, futsal, volleyball and ice hockey players. The 1980 Summer Olympics were held in Moscow while the 2014 Winter Olympics were hosted in Sochi.

when did the three gorges dam finished construction 2006 where is it located? Sandouping, in Yiling District, Yichang, Hubei province, central China, downstream of the Three Gorges. does it have any fauna ? Yes, Siberian crane, river dolphin, fish, etc. what is the diet of the second? UNANSWERABLE what does the first feed on ? Mainly plants other includes - roots of hellebore, seeds of "Empetrum nigrum,  small rodents, earthworms and fish which places do they relocate? This species breeds in two disjunct regions in the arctic tundra of Russia how is the weather of this country? Humid continental climate name few tourist places? Moscow and Saint Petersburg, museums as the Tretyakov Gallery and the Hermitage, famous theaters like Bolshoi and Mariinsky, ornate churches like Saint Basil's Cathedral, Cathedral of Christ the Saviour, Saint Isaac's Cathedral and Church of the Savior on Blood, many more was it associated with any war? Yes, Second World War
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Russia [SEP] Sports
Russian players Valery Kharlamov, Sergei Makarov, Vyacheslav Fetisov and Vladislav Tretiak hold four of six positions in the IIHF "Team of the Century". Russia has not won the Olympic ice hockey tournament since the Unified Team won gold in 1992. Russia won the 1993, 2008, 2009, 2012 and the 2014 IIHF World Championships. The Kontinental Hockey League (KHL) was founded in 2008 as a successor to the Russian Superleague. It is ranked the top hockey league in Europe , and the second-best in the world. It is an international professional ice hockey league in Eurasia and consists of 29 teams, of which 21 are based in Russia and 7 more are located in Latvia, Kazakhstan, Belarus, Finland, Slovakia, Croatia and China.