What is the table of places at the Olympics. Russia was deprived of first place at the Olympics in Sochi. Why the IOC's decision is questionable. Under a neutral flag

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What place did Russia take in medals at the 2018 Olympics?

In Pyeongchang, South Korea, the XXIII Winter Olympic Games came to an end, during which a record 102 sets of medals were awarded in 15 disciplines.

Athletes from 30 countries won awards, and athletes from the Russian Olympic team, as our team was called at these Games, took 13th place in the overall medal standings.

Last December, the IOC suspended the Russian Federation from participation in the Olympics, but allowed a number of our athletes to compete in competitions under intkbbach neutral flag. During the closing ceremony, as was the case at the opening of the 2018 Olympics, our athletes were not allowed to walk under the national tricolor.

How many medals does Russia have at the 2018 Olympics?

At the end of the 2018 Olympics, Russian athletes won 17 awards - two gold, six silver and nine bronze medals.

Olympic medal standings 2018: table

Who won medals for Russia at the 2018 Olympics in Korea?

The figure skater also brought medals of the highest standard to the Russian Olympic team.

“Silver” was brought by figure skater Evgenia Medvedeva, as well as Russian skaters in the team tournament, skeleton skater Nikita Tregubov, skier Alexander Bolshunov, the men’s ski relay team and the freestyle ski sprint team.

Third places and, accordingly, bronze medals were received by speed skaters Semyon Elistratov, Natalya Voronina, skiers Yulia Belorukova, Alexander Bolshunov, Andrey Larkov, Denis Spitsov, the women's ski relay team, freestylers Ilya Burov and Sergey Ridzik.

8 out of 17 conquered Olympic medals brought by skiers. At the same time, Alexander Bolshunov and Andrey Larkov became silver and bronze medalists in the marathon, and Denis Spitsov reached bronze in individual race free style. Alexander Bolshunov won bronze in the individual sprint classic style. In addition, they took silver medals in the team sprint, and together with Andrey Larkov and Alexey Chervotkin, the athletes took an award of the same value in the relay race.

Russian Yulia Belorukova won the bronze medal in the individual sprint in the classical style. She won the same medal in the women's relay team in company with Natalya Nepryaeva, Yulia Belorukova, Anastasia Sedova and Anna Nechaevskaya.

Several Russian participants in this Olympics were caught doping. In particular, curler Alexander Krushelnitsky, who had meldonium in his body, was forced to win, which he won together with his wife Anastasia Bryzgalova in double mixed doubles.

The IOC Commission under the leadership of Dennis Oswald continues to select the awards of the Russian team won in Sochi 2014. Russia has already been robbed of four gold medals. After Olympic champions skier Legkov and skeleton athlete Tretyakov, bobsledder Alexander Zubkov was disqualified for life. At his home Olympics he won two gold medals.

Dennis Oswald's commission rechecks all doping samples of Russians at Sochi 2014, looking for scratches and high salt content. Already 13 have been disqualified for life Russian athletes. Russia lost its leadership in the team medal standings. It is now led by Canada and Norway. In terms of the total number of medals, the USA came out ahead. But no one can say why they are punished Russian athletes.

The IOC publishes only the final decisions: to cancel the results at the Sochi Olympics, to ban participation in Olympic Games for life... There is no motivation part, where it will be stated on the basis of what the punishments are imposed. While she is gone, it is impossible to appeal and go to court. I would like to know what exactly the athletes were punished for. And why is the IOC commission so afraid to publish evidence?

Evidence from the Oswald Commission

But the logic of the IOC commission one way or another becomes clear. Apparently, no doping was found in the samples of Russian athletes. Judged on the basis of circumstantial evidence:

1. Scratches on the test tubes (they indicate that the test tubes may have been opened)

2. Increased salt content in samples (an indirect sign of possible manipulations with samples)

3. The presence of a surname on the Duchess List (a list of athletes who allegedly took the so-called “Duchess” steroid cocktail, invented by Rodchenkov - doping with alcohol (whiskey and martini). The list is presented by Rodchenkov himself).

And what does this have to do with athletes?

Okay, let’s say all this may indicate that some kind of manipulation was carried out with the doping samples of Russian athletes. But what does this have to do with the athletes themselves? Their participation has not been proven? How can you blame athletes for anything?

The Oswald commission seems to answer these questions (we remind you that there is no motivational part) as follows:

1. Punished Russian athletes allegedly provided clean urine so that it could be replaced. This means they participated in a conspiracy.

2. Punished Russian athletes allegedly reported the number of the doping test they took. (Here it is necessary to clarify: there are no surnames and names on the test tubes, there is only a number. Theoretically, no one knows which doping sample of which athlete has which number, except for the athlete himself and the WADA doping officer. To know which sample to replace, you need to have it number. According to the logic of the commission, it was reported by the athletes).

What's wrong here

There are a lot of questions. The points.

1. Where did they get the idea that athletes gave clean urine to someone in advance? From the testimony of Grigory Rodchenkov? Are they such piquant details: was pure urine collected almost in Coca-Cola bottles?

Now imagine: the most serious and complex espionage operation. With sample substitutions and so on and so forth. And cheat urine - that is, a doping sample that will be scanned up and down and, perhaps, not decomposed into atoms, is collected in cola bottles! Which itself consists of a feature. Yes, the laboratory technicians there should be shocked by the results. Couldn't they have found some cleaner container?

That is, there should be some kind of evidence base for collecting clean urine? She is?

2. Transfer of the doping sample number. The number on the test tubes is not easy. You won't remember him that easily. How was it transmitted? Was he photographed on a phone? Did you dictate right away? What were WADA doping officers doing at that moment? Is there evidence that the accused athletes reported this number?

3. Salt. Why did they use salt if there were supposedly clean urine samples that needed to be replaced?

4. Scratches on test tubes. It seems they said that there are various kinds of scratches, and they can even be caused by tightening the lid of the jar tightly? Is not it so?

5. Before and after the Olympic Games, Russian athletes participated in many competitions, including and even mainly abroad. And they won there too. Different laboratories took doping samples from them. How to explain the fact that they are clean? Modern doping is not the elixir from the comic book Asterix and Obelix; it does not act instantly. And it doesn’t come out in a couple of days.

6. Many accused Russian athletes trained with Western specialists. Skier Legkov - Reto Burgermeister from Switzerland. The other skiers are the German Isabelle Knaute. The head coach of the Russian bobsleigh team in Sochi was a Canadian of German origin, Pierre Luders. Biathlete Olga Zaitseva, whose case was also heard by the Oswald commission, worked with the German Wolfgang Pichler, an incomparable fighter against doping. Were they also in cahoots?

Until Dennis Oswald’s IOC commission answers at least all these questions exhaustively, all normal people will doubt its conclusions.

PS. Medal count

The Sochi 2014 medal standings are cited as an indirect sign of the Russian team’s machinations. And they ask how it happened that at the Vancouver Olympics the Russian team won only 3 gold medals (11th place in the main standings), and in 2014 - 13?

Yes, but doesn’t it bother you that in home Vancouver Canada had 14 gold medals, and 4 years before that in Turin 2006 only 7?

Have you noticed that at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, Great Britain took 29 gold medals, and in Beijing 2008 - only 19? Have you forgotten that in the same Beijing the Chinese collected 48 gold coins, and four years before that in Athens only 32?

Because there is a “home field” factor - familiar tracks,

Plus, we recruited the Korean Viktor Ahn, who turned out to be not needed by his team. In Sochi he won three gold medals and one bronze.

We took Vic Wild - having married Russian snowboarder Alena Zavarzina, he took Russian citizenship. He played a supporting role in the US team, and in Sochi he took two gold medals.

But the medal table takes on a completely different look. Instead of 13 gold medals, Russia has only 10, and is third in the team standings. But the execution is not over. At least we have the right to know why.

Sports arbitration court(CAS) acquitted 28 Russian athletes of doping charges and reinstated their performance at the 2014 Sochi Olympics. Last November, after the disqualification of a number of Olympians, Russia took first place in the medal standings of the Games in Sochi, losing in the number of medals to Norway and Canada. After the CAS decision, Russia will have nine medals restored (two gold, six silver and one bronze) and first place in the medal standings (11 gold in total, although initially there were 13).

These 28 athletes will now be able to take part in the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea (though they will still have to compete), and their lifelong ban from participating in the Olympics has been lifted.

The 28 acquitted athletes included: Dmitry Trunenkov, Alexey Negodaylo, Olga Stulneva, Lyudmila Udobkina (all bobsleigh), Alexander Tretyakov, Sergei Chudinov, Elena Nikitina, Olga Potylitsyna, Maria Orlova (all skeleton), Alexander Legkov, Evgeniy Belov, Maxim Vylegzhanin, Alexey Petukhov, Nikita Kryukov, Alexander Bessmertnykh, Evgenia Shapovalova, Natalya Matveeva (all – ski race), Olga Fatkulina, Alexander Rumyantsev, Ivan Skobrev, Artem Kuznetsov (all speed skating), Tatyana Ivanova, Albert Demchenko (both luge), Ekaterina Lebedeva, Ekaterina Pashkevich, Tatyana Burina, Anna Shchukina, Ekaterina Smolentseva (all hockey).

Russian Sports Minister Pavel Kolobkov said that the CAS decision confirms that many Russian athletes who were accused of anti-doping violations are “clean.”

“All the athletes were acquitted of charges of violating anti-doping rules during the Sochi Games. Both the guys and all of us are glad that justice has finally prevailed. The CAS boards recognized that they were innocent and overturned the decisions of the Oswald Commission (IOC). Today’s CAS decisions confirm that many of those accused are “clean” athletes,” Kolobkov said.

"R-Sport"

These are bobsledders Alexander Zubkov, Alexey Voevoda, Alexander Kasyanov, Alexey Pushkarev, Ilvir Kuzin, skiers Yulia Ivanova, Yulia Chekaleva, Anastasia Dotsenko, hockey players Galina Skiba, Anna Shibanova and Inna Dyubanok.

The consideration of the cases of biathletes Olga Zaitseva, Olga Vilukhina and Yana Romanova has been postponed for now.

"Jellyfish"

After the Games in Sochi, the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) accused Russian athletes of doping, and an anti-doping investigation against Russia began. Last December, against the background of this investigation, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) did not allow the Russian team from the Games in Pyeongchang (Russian athletes will compete under a neutral flag) and

Russian national team at the 2018 Olympics, medals: what place does Russia have in terms of medals in 2018 - read about this in the material.

What place did Russia take in medals at the 2018 Olympics?

In Pyeongchang, South Korea, the XXIII Winter Olympic Games came to an end, during which a record 102 sets of medals were awarded in 15 disciplines.

Athletes from 30 countries won awards, and athletes from the Russian Olympic team, as our team was called at these Games, took 13th place in the overall medal standings.

Last December, the IOC suspended the Russian Federation from participation in the Olympics, but allowed a number of our athletes to compete in competitions under a neutral flag. During the closing ceremony, as was the case at the opening of the 2018 Olympics, our athletes were not allowed to walk under the national tricolor.

How many medals does Russia have at the 2018 Olympics?

At the end of the 2018 Olympics, Russian athletes won 17 awards - two gold, six silver and nine bronze medals.

Olympic medal standings 2018: table

Our athletes have won 17 awards. Two of them, the highest denomination - gold, were brought to the country by figure skater Alina Zagitova, who was called the very discovery of the season, because the girl managed to surpass even the famous Evgenia Medvedeva in the technique of performing numbers. Also, unexpectedly for themselves, the hockey players won gold - the team has not won first place at the Olympics since the times of the USSR, and therefore the current victory was perceived by society almost as a real feat.

We have six silver awards.

Silver was won by: skiers Andrey Larkov, Alexander Bolshunov, Alexey Chervotkin and Denis Spitsov (4x10 km relay), Bolshunov in the 50 km race, Spitsov and Bolshunov in the team sprint, figure skater Evgenia Medvedeva (women's singles), Russian national team figure skating V team competitions(Medvedeva and Zagitova, Mikhail Kolyada, Evgenia Tarasova/Vladimir Morozov, Natalya Zabiyako/Alexander Enbert, Ekaterina Bobrova/Dmitry Solovyov), skeleton athlete Nikita Tregubov.

The country has nine bronze medals.

Bronze medalists were: skiers Natalya Nepryaeva, Yulia Belorukova, Anastasia Sedova, Anna Nechaevskaya (4x5 km relay), Belorukova (individual sprint), Spitsov (15 km individual race), Larkov (50 km race), Bolshunov (individual sprint) , freestylers Ilya Burov (ski acrobatics) and Sergei Ridzik (ski cross), speed skater Natalya Voronina (5000 meters), short track speed skater Semyon Elistratov (1500 meters).

The IOC made an official statement that the medals will not be given back to Russia as such - they all belong to athletes from Russia, and the country’s participation in the Olympics will not go down in history in any way.

Athletes from Norway undoubtedly took first place in terms of the number and value of awards. The guys took home 14 gold, 14 silver and 11 bronze medals. Germany was in second place - here the number of medals is 14-10-7. In third place was Canada with medals in the ratio 11-8-10.

The top ten most “awarded” countries also included athletes from the USA, the Netherlands, Sweden, South Korea, Switzerland, France, and Austria. By the way, in terms of the number of awards, the Russians caught up with the holders of seventh place, Korea, but the hosts of the Olympics had much more gold medals.

Almost half Russian medals– eight out of 17 were earned by skiers. On Saturday, February 24, Alexander Bolshunov and Andrey Larkov became silver and bronze medalists in the marathon. Previously, Denis Spitsov won bronze in the individual freestyle race, Bolshunov took bronze in the individual sprint classic style. Both won silver in the team sprint, and together with Larkov and Alexey Chervotkin, a similar medal in the relay. Russian Yulia Belorukova won bronze in the individual sprint in the classical style, as well as the women's relay team (Natalia Nepryaeva, Yulia Belorukova, Anastasia Sedova, Anna Nechaevskaya).

So the command Russian skiers earned more awards at the 2018 Games than all of them combined olympic teams Hungary, Ukraine, Belgium, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Liechtenstein, who have one medal each in various types sports

Several athletes were caught doping during the Olympics. Among them are two Russians. Traces of meldonium were found in the body of curling player Alexander Krushelnitsky. The athlete denied the fact of deliberate use of doping, but also refused to fight for justice. At the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) hearing, he decided not to participate, resulting in CAS canceling the hearing itself. As a result, Krushelnitsy parted with the bronze medal, which he won with his wife Anastasia Bryzgalova in double mixed doubles. It was handed over to the Norwegian pair, who lost to the Russians in the match for third place.

The Russian Curling Federation, together with law enforcement agencies of Russia and South Korea, the IOC and the International Curling Federation, intends to investigate how the prohibited drug entered the athlete’s body. The corresponding decision on his further fate will be made by CAS.

The Court of Arbitration for Sport annulled the results of bobsledder Nadezhda Sergeeva, whose sample contained a prohibited drug. The banned drug trimetazidine was found in her body. At the Olympics in Pyeongchang, the athlete finished 12th in the two-man competition.

At the end of the Games, further proceedings in the athlete’s case will follow.

Even if the IOC allows Russian athletes to participate in the Olympics in Korea, they cannot count on getting into the top five in terms of both the number of gold medals and the overall standings, analysts concluded

Experts from Gracenote, an entertainment and sports analytics company, have published a new, interim version of the “virtual PyeongChang podium” forecast medal standings games in South Korea. Although Russia is not in the final table, analysts predict that Russian athletes, if allowed to participate in the games by the IOC commission, will take sixth place in the overall team medal standings.

Grancenote analysis is based on latest results the world's largest and national competitions in all sports represented at the Olympics. Gracenote is owned by research company Nielsen. The authors of the study note that they took into account in the forecast the performances of all Russian athletes who had not previously been suspended from the Olympic Games based on the results of the report of the IOC commission led by Denis Oswald.

However, even if all these athletes are allowed to participate in the Pyeongchang Games, the Olympic Athletes from Russia (OAR) team will win only 19 medals in the unofficial team event - four gold, six silver and nine bronze, Grancenote experts predict. They predict three gold medals for Russia in speed skating and one in figure skating.

The overall team standings at the Olympic Games are a table that takes into account the medals won by representatives of different national teams. IN different countries different ranking methodologies are used - either by the number of gold medals only (the Gold First rule, used, in particular, in Russia, as well as Japan, Australia, Germany and most other countries), or by the total number of medals, regardless of their value (used in USA).

The IOC does not recognize these data as an official ranking of countries, citing the provisions of the Olympic Charter, according to which the Olympic Games are “a competition of athletes, not of states.” This was stated, in particular, by the head of the IOC, Jacques Rogge, in 2008. The table shown here is based on the Gold First principle.

For comparison: at the 2014 Olympics in Sochi, the Russian team initially won 33 medals - 12 gold, 11 silver and ten bronze. After the disqualification of a number of athletes due to the doping manipulation scandal in Sochi, the number Russian awards in Sochi it was reduced to 20 (including nine gold ones). This dropped Russia to fourth place in the team competition.

The main fight in Korea for first place, according to Grancenote analysts, will take place between the teams of Germany and Norway. Both teams will finish the Olympics having won 14 gold medals, but Germany will be higher in the unofficial standings in terms of the total number of awards - 40 versus 37.

The unofficial medal standings for the 2018 PyeongChang Olympics in terms of number of gold medals based on Grancenote's January forecast are as follows:

Germany - 14 gold medals (40 total)
Norway - 14 gold medals (37 total)
USA - ten gold medals (29 total)
France - nine gold medals (24 total)
Canada - seven gold medals (33 total)
South Korea - seven gold medals (ten in total)​
Netherlands - six gold medals (18 total)
Austria - six gold medals (15 total)
China - six gold medals (nine in total)
Japan - four gold medals (15 in total).

In a November forecast that took into account Russian athletes, Gracenote analysts said that the team could compete with the Netherlands for seventh place in the gold medal standings (six medals). In terms of the total number of medals, Russia would share fourth place with France - 21 medals.

Before the start of the Olympic Games, Gracenote promises to update its forecast taking into account those Russian athletes who will be allowed to participate in the games.

The IOC Executive Committee disqualified on December 5 last year Olympic Committee Russia. To competitions in South Korea Russians admitted by the IOC will travel as “Olympic athletes from Russia” - they will compete under a neutral flag, the Russian anthem will not be played. In addition, they were banned from participating in the Olympic Games for life. former leaders Ministry of Sports - Vitaly Mutko and his deputy Yuri Nagornykh.

At his annual press conference on December 14, President Vladimir Putin said pressure was being put on WADA and the IOC, and employees of the organizations were being “intimidated.” The Anti-Doping Agency said that all decisions of the organization were objective.