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Russia drops in Olympic medal standings due to US success

The Russian team dropped to ninth place in the unofficial medal standings at the Beijing Olympics.

According to the results of the previous day, the Russian team was in eighth place, but due to the success of the US team, it dropped one position. The day before, the Americans took their first gold at this Olympics - snowboarder Lindsay Jacobellis won the board cross. During the day, the US representatives took two more gold medals - figure skater Nathan Chen won the highest standard medal in the free program, and snowboarder Chloe Kim in the halfpipe.

The Russian national team currently has 11 medals: two gold, three silver and six bronze. On Thursday, Russian athletes have not yet taken a single award, and the day before - only one (Semyon Elistratov won the bronze in the 1500 m race in short track).

Austrian Strolz wins the alpine skiing combination at the Olympics 2022 Olympics The Norwegian team has taken the lead in the medal standings thanks to the gold medal from skier Therese Johaug. The Norwegians now have five gold medals, according to this indicator they caught up with the Germans, who led the table at the end of the sixth day of the Olympics, but at the same time Norway has more awards of other denominations (three silvers and four bronzes against three silver medals for the Germans).

The Russian team was in first place for almost the entire Olympics in terms of the total number of medals, but today it fell to third place - it was overtaken by Norway and Austria (12 each).

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Russia drops in Olympic medal standings due to US success