--- description: Some athletes took home more than just medals at the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics; some took home new best friends title: Catching Up With the Stray Dogs of Sochi image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltab713e807618aa6d/69885a4d2dce0134729e48f4/soch-dogs2.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [Sports](/section/sports/) ## Sports Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [olympics](/tag/olympics/) ## olympics Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Catching Up With the Stray Dogs of Sochi by [Sports Illustrated](/author/sports-illustrated/) ## Sports Illustrated Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Jul 9, 2015 5:14 PM CUT  Sports Illustrated by [Sports Illustrated](/author/sports-illustrated/) ## Sports Illustrated Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Jul 9, 2015 5:14 PM CUT Some athletes took home more than just medals at the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics. Some took home new best friends. _Sports Illustrated_ visited the homes of athletes who rescued stray dogs to see how the pooches were settling in. Watch above, and [read more at SI.com](http://www.si.com/more-sports/2015/07/09/sochi-dogs-2014-winter-olympics "undefined") ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3951614/sochi-2014-winter-olympics-dogs/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3951614/sochi-2014-winter-olympics-dogs/"},"headline":"Catching Up With the Stray Dogs of Sochi","datePublished":"2015-07-09T17:14:07.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T09:06:54.208Z","description":"Many of the stray dogs adopted by the Olympians are now settled in their new homes in the U.S.","url":"https://time.com/3951614/sochi-2014-winter-olympics-dogs/","keywords":["olympics","animals","Dogs","cute","winter","Sochi","2015","rescue"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltab713e807618aa6d/69885a4d2dce0134729e48f4/soch-dogs2.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Sports Illustrated","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/sports-illustrated/"}],"articleSection":"Sports","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltab713e807618aa6d/69885a4d2dce0134729e48f4/soch-dogs2.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Sochi Dog","caption":"","creditText":"Sports Illustrated","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/sports/","name":"Sports"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/olympics/","name":"olympics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3951614/sochi-2014-winter-olympics-dogs/","name":"Catching Up With the Stray Dogs of Sochi"}}]}] ```