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Russia overtakes China in Olympic medal standings

The Russian team has moved up one position to rank seventh in the team medal standings at the Beijing Olympics.

This happened after the victory of the skiers in the 4 × 10 km relay. Russian skiers Alexey Chervotkin, Alexander Bolshunov, Denis Spitsov and Sergey Ustyugov won more than a minute at the finish against the representatives of Norway. The French were third.

Russian Olympians took the fourth gold at these Games. In the unofficial team standings, Russia overtook the hosts of the Olympics. China, like Russia, has four golds, but it is inferior in the number of silver (three to four for Russia) and bronze awards (one for China and six for Russia).

The biathlete lost consciousness during the race. The main thing at the Olympics Olympics 2022 In terms of the total number of awards, Russia is second only to Norway, which has 18 medals. Russia has 14 awards, Germany and Austria have a similar result. The Germans are in first place in the medal standings due to more gold medals (eight), the Austrians have four golds, but they are ahead of Russia in terms of silver medals (six).

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Russia overtakes China in Olympic medal standings