This article contains a chronological summary of major events from the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia.
In the following calendar each blue box represents one or more event competition(s), such as a qualification round, on that day.
The yellow boxes represent medal-awarding finals for a sport with in each box the number of finals that were contested on that day.
[citation needed] For this reason competition started a day before the opening ceremony.
This marks the first time in the history of the Winter Olympics that competitions were held before the opening ceremony.