The team behind Russia's successful bid for the 2014 Winter Olympics has arrived home to a victorious welcome. Ahead of them are seven years of hard work and a lot of promises to fulfil to get the resort of Sochi ready in time and on budget.

Crowds gathered at Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport all as one sporting the Sochi Olympic t-shirts clutching bunches of flowers and waving Russian flags. To them, the sportsmen represent victory and they've brought it home. And even though it’s taken the Olympians nearly a day to fly back, they smiled through their jet lag.

“It is a real breakthrough. We made it! We are tired, but we can take a time-out. We should get town to work tomorrow to have the best facilities build within seven years,” smiled Olympic bid CEO Dmitry Chernyshenko.

The triumphant teem knows a staggering amount of work needs to be done.

“IOC rules do not ask to keep members, but I think those people who were working in the bid team will now form the organising committee, because IOC asked us to start working on the games as fast as possible,” said Sochi 2014 Ambassador Svetlana Zhurova.

The work has already begun, as the bid team becomes the organising committee and prepares to work round the clock with the IOC.  But before they are once again to their necks in planning, a well deserved rest awaits, as the tired and smiling delegates head home for a good nights sleep.