...Atop a small mountain ridge just outside Sochi, 73-year-old Nadezhda Kuharenko’s small house stands in the middle of a vegetable garden...Ever since construction for the Olympics began in 2009, huge trucks with heavy equipment have rumbled past her house in the village of Akhshtyr, leading to cracks in her home's walls and a leaky roof. A stone quarry just a short walk from her house has been in constant use until recently to support construction of the Olympic traffic artery...[T]he construction of roads and the need to construct dozens of hotels has severely affected the environment and residents..."I got nothing from the Olympics, just a crumbling house and health problems," Kuharenko said...Villagers said that nearly all their houses have cracks as heavy trucks — as many as 250 per day — rumbled through the main street...Irina Vorovchkova even sued Olympstroi, the Russian state corporation...over damages to her house. She lost — and claimed the local courts are biased toward the Olympics...Fearing that her house will completely crumble, Vorovchkova has moved part of her family into temporary housing...for the better part of the last two years...When asked about the stone quarry at Akhshtyr...[Oleg Kharchenko, chief architect of Olympstroi] said it would be recultivated and the houses would be repaired.