Winter Olympics in Vancouver.

The 2010 Winter Olympics are held in the Canadian city of Vancouver. And it begins on February 12, 2010. It closes on March 1 at 4:30 Moscow time.

Athletes engaged in such sports as biathlon, bobsleigh, alpine skiing, curling, speed skating, ski nordic combined, cross-country skiing, ski jumping, luge, skeleton, snowboarding, figure skating, freestyle, hockey, short- track.

According to the results at 28,02,10, Russia takes only 11th place in the ranking of teams at the 2010 Olympics in Vancouver, having 15 medals (of which 3 are gold), in contrast to the leading Canada, which already has 25 medals in its treasury (13 gold medals ).

Canada pulled ahead, unlike Russia, which worsened its results

The United States has earned the largest number of medals to date, with 36 medals (9 gold).

Russia ranks fifth in figure skating (one silver and one gold medal) Oksana Domnina and Maxim Shabalin brought us bronze, and Evgeni Plushenko – silver.

Russia takes a good position in biathlon: third place and four medals (2 gold and one bronze and one silver)! We got bronze for the Relay (4×7,5 km Men), behind Austria by 0,2 (Austria. 1: 22.16,7 Russia. 1: 22.16,9) The women took the first place in the Relay 4×6 km, overtaking the French and German women. Olga Zaitseva brought Russia silver in the mass start, losing about 5 seconds to German Magdalena Neuner. Evgeny Ustyugov overtook the Frenchman Martin Fourcade and received the gold medal in the 15 km mass start.

Russia took the fourth place in bobsleigh thanks to the bronze medals of Alexander Zubkov and Alexey Voevoda (two). They lost only to Germany.

Alpine skiing has not brought Russia a single medal. Germany, the USA and Switzerland took the leading positions in this sport.

Curling is also not our sport. Canada took first place with two medals, followed by Sweden and Norway.

Speed ​​skating was more successful for Russia, eighth place and two medals (bronze and silver). The silver medal was won at 10000 meters by Ivan Skobrev, who was overtaken by Seung-Hung Lee, who set an Olympic record. At 5000 Skobrev was less fortunate: he and Lee were moved from their positions by Sven Kramer, who also set an Olympic record.

Nordic combined was very lucky for the United States (1 gold and three silver medals), but not for Russia.

Cross-country skiing brought Russia fourth place and four medals! (1 gold, one silver and two bronze). Nikolai Morilov and Alexey Petukhov brought Russia 3rd place in the team sprint, 0,2 s behind Germany. Nikita Kryukov and Alexander Khanzhinsky brought gold and silver in the sprint, overtaking Petter Nurtug. Irina Khazova and Natalia Korosteleva brought Russia bronze in the team sprint, losing to the Germans and the athletes of Sweden.

Ski jumping did not bring Russia a single medal, but gave Switzerland two gold medals.

Luge was especially successful for Gerania (5 medals), but Russia did not earn a single medal in this sport.

Alexander Tretyakov received a bronze medal and brought Russia to fifth place in skeleton.

Snowboarding brought Russia only one silver medal. Ekaterina Ilyukhina showed an excellent result in the giant parallel slalom and overtook Marion Krainer from Austria.

Freestyle was not very successful for Russia. In this sport, the Canadians won. Whey Protein.

In ice hockey, the Russian team lost to Canada with a score of 3: 7 and did not make it to the final, the final will take place between Canada and the United States at 23:15 pm on 28 February.

China showed a truly brilliant game, winning 4 gold medals in the short track, unfortunately, Russia could not win a single medal.

This Olympics brought 5 Olympic records and one world record. The world record was set by the women of China in the 3000m relay, running the track in 4 minutes 6,610 seconds. China also set a record on the Olympic record page: Zhou Yang set a record of 1500 in the 2.16,993m short track! Two records were set by the Netherlands: in speed skating at 5000 m Sven Kramer won with a time of 6.14,60, and in the team race, the men won 3.39,95. South Korea also keeps up with Jong-Soo Lee (Short Track 1000m) and Seung-Hoon Lee (Speed ​​Skating 10.000m) completed the distances in 1.23,747 and 12.58,55 respectively.

This Olympics was intense and difficult. And even though Russia is not yet in the first place, our team showed an excellent and exciting game!