The illegal eviction of a family in Sochi casts a dark shadow over preparations for the 2014 Winter Olympic Games. The International Olympic Committee (IOC) should intervene immediately to ensure that the Russian authorities provide the family with compensation. At approximately 5 p.m. on September 19, 2012, Sochi time, court bailiffs removed the Khlistov family, whose property was expropriated for Olympic construction without compensation. Bailiffs supervised the demolition of the modest two-story house in the Adler section of Sochi, where Sergei Khlistov has been living for 16 years with his wife, daughter, son-in-law, and two grandchildren, ages 4 and 8. The home sat in the midst of an area of immense construction of Olympic infrastructure and venues underway since April 2011.