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The Russian national team finished their performance at the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro in fourth place in the unofficial team event, having won 56 medals.
7:09 22.08.2016
The Russian national team completed their performance at Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro in fourth place in the unofficial team event, having won 56 medals - 19 gold, 18 silver and 19 bronze. This worst result over the 20 years that Russia has been Summer Games a separate team, however, it must be taken into account that almost all Russian athletes were removed from the competition, in full complement weightlifters and most of the rowing team. Russia won victories in those sports that did not affect doping scandals, and domestic athletes had no problems with admission to the Olympics.
Having reached its peak in 2000 in Sydney, the number of gold medals won by Russian athletes by summer Olympics, has steadily decreased since then. 16 years ago Russian athletes won 32 gold medals, finishing second in the unofficial team event, as they did four years earlier in Atlanta. In Sydney, the Russian national team competed even with the leaders of world sports in recent decades, the Americans, lagging behind by only five awards of the highest standard.
Already in 2004, in Athens, the Russian national team dropped to third place in the overall standings (28 gold medals), finally letting the Chinese athletes go ahead, who were building up their power for the next, home Olympics. In Beijing and London, Russian athletes each won 22 gold medals, and in connection with the investigation of cases of doping and rechecking of samples taken at the Games in 2008 and 2012, this number may decrease.
Four years ago, the Russian national team in the overall team competition also let the British hosts ahead of the Games, although it remained third in terms of the total number of awards. In Rio de Janeiro Russian team in the fight for the fourth place, she was ahead of the German team, significantly surpassing it in the total number of medals. In addition, the performance of the Russians in Rio de Janeiro has become more diverse: they won medals in 15 sports.
The result was influenced by the suspension
Worst in 20 years of participation Russian athletes in the Olympic Games, performance in Rio de Janeiro, of course, is largely due to the removal from the Games of almost all members of the country's national athletics and rowing team, as well as weightlifters in full force. In track and field athletics at the 2012 Olympics, Russian athletes won six gold medals, although it was unlikely that this result would be expected to be repeated even if they performed at full strength, given that many team leaders and almost all walkers were disqualified.
In weightlifting and rowing in London, Russian athletes did not win gold medals at all, there was no particular reason to expect from them big victories and in Rio de Janeiro. Only Tatyana Kashirina, a four-time world champion in weightlifting in the category over 75 kg, could count on success in Brazil. At the 2015 World Championships in Houston, America, she won with a total result of 333 kg, while at the 2016 Games, the vice-champion of the world Chinese woman Meng Supin was enough to win the sum of 307 kg.
In any case, the possible gold medals for the representatives of athletics and weightlifters would not have been enough for the third team place, given that after the home Olympics the British did not slow down the pace, again showing excellent results. It is possible that even if Elena Isinbaeva and other strongest athletes of the country had performed in Rio de Janeiro, the Russian national team would have shown its worst result in the history of the Olympic movement in any case.
The general psychological background also affected the performance of the Russian team, when many team leaders, including the main hope in swimming, Yulia Efimova, were admitted to participate in the Games at the very last moment - thanks to the decisions of the Court of Arbitration for Sport. Any accountant will be able to calculate lost profits in business, in sports it is impossible to assess moral damage in lost gold medals, the Olympic Games do not tolerate the subjunctive mood.
Breakthrough in fencing
At the Games in Rio de Janeiro, only in fencing, the Russian national team exceeded the expectations of the fans, winning seven medals, of which four were gold. This happened largely also because fencing is a sport that is clean from doping, and all the troubles of recent months have not affected the Russian national team. There was no talk about the non-participation of Russian fencers before the Games, moreover, the International Fencing Federation is headed by Alisher Usmanov, from her side there could be no claim to athletes from Russia.
The Russian team performed better only in wrestling, winning four gold medals and nine in total. However, it is obvious that the Russian wrestlers could have performed better, given several offensive defeats, in particular, Natalia Vorobyova and Bilyal Makhova.
The Russian national team won two gold medals out of two possible in synchronized swimming and rhythmic gymnastics, but in these forms they are already accustomed to the dominance of Russians, and any other result would be considered a disaster. The victories of judoists Beslan Mudranov and Khasan Khalmurzaev became the main events of the first days of the Olympics, but the Russian national judo team performed worse overall than in London, where there were three gold medals, and only five gold medals. In 2012, judokas made a real breakthrough, and it is hardly possible to improve such results. Returned the gold Olympic medals in the Russian pentathlon Alexander Lesun.
Again, Russian shooters were left without awards of the highest standard, although the London failure did not repeat itself - two silver and two bronze medals were won. Sports gymnasts retained the same gold medal - and again Olympic champion became Aliya Mustafina. Boxers also did not perform in the best way, on the account of which one gold medal, which was won by Evgeny Tishchenko. In total, the boxers won five awards, the overall picture was not influenced even by the sharp speech in the press by Alexander Lebzyak, who thus tried to shake up the team.
Most of the sports again did not turn out to be "gold" for the Russian national team. However, some performances of young athletes, albeit not victorious, gave hope. Excellent sprinters in the cycle track appeared in Russia - Anastasia Voinova and Daria Shmeleva became the second in the team sprint, 19-year-old Stefania Elfutina, who won bronze in the surfing class, also pleased sailing... Promising swimmers also appeared in the country - bronze Olympic medalists Evgeny Rylov (back) and Anton Chupkov (breaststroke). Silver archers in team championship, as well as medals of very young shooters - Vitalina Batsarashkina and Vladimir Maslennikov.
Water dip
In swimming and especially diving at the current Olympics, the Russian team again performed frankly weak. Yes, Yulia Efimova in a different situation, perhaps, would have won not two silver, but two gold, but in any case, the last victory Russian swimmers in the pool dates back to 1996, when Alexander Popov and Denis Pankratov won two gold medals. For 20 years, Russia has ceased to be considered a swimming power. How brilliant swimmers can win the Olympics was shown in Rio de Janeiro by the Americans, who won 16 gold medals in the pool - almost the same for the entire Russian team.
The divers were left without awards at all, although four years ago in London, Ilya Zakharov and Yevgeny Kuznetsov gave a real fight to the Chinese, and Zakharov even won gold on a three-meter springboard.
The record low number of Russian participants in the Games in Rio de Janeiro is due not only to the exclusion of athletes and representatives of other sports. Only four teams competed at the Olympics in game types sports - men's and women's volleyball teams, as well as handball players and water polo players. However, the women's handball and water polo teams performed beyond praise. For the first time in 16 years, water polo players won Olympic medals, albeit bronze ones, while handball players, led by
There are only a few hours left before the start of the 2016 Olympics, and the composition of the Russian national team at the Games in Rio de Janeiro may still undergo changes. 4 August Sports arbitration court in Lausanne (CAS) declared "invalid" the decision of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) not to admit to the Olympic Games in Rio Russian athletes who were previously convicted of doping, even if their sentence has expired.
The decision to cancel the double punishment was made by the arbitration court during the consideration of the cases of the Russian rowers Ivan Podshivalov and Anastasia Karabelshchikova. CAS partially granted the athletes' appeal and thus granted the International Rowing Federation the right to make a decision on the admission of Russian athletes. A similar decision was made for the Russian swimmer Yulia Efimova. Now the decisions on the non-admission of individual athletes to the Olympics, made earlier by specialized international federations, may be revised.
To date, according to the IOC, 271 athletes from Russia are eligible to compete in Rio, compared to the originally announced 387. The final application of Russia for the Games will have to be approved by a special commission of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) of three people, which, in particular, will reconsider cases in relation to athletes eligible to participate in the Games in accordance with the latest decision of the CAS.
In athletics everything is hard, in heavy it is not easier
In total, Brazil will compete for sets of medals in 33 sports. The Russians did not qualify for the Olympics in rugby, field hockey, football and basketball. After the doping scandal with track and field athletes, only one athlete will represent Russia in the "queen of sports" - long jumper Daria Klishina. Until the last moment, uncertainty remained about the only Russian participant in the golf tournament - Maria Verchenova, however, in response to an inquiry from DW, an official representative of Verchenova said that she would start in Brazil.
In weightlifting, the situation is quite sad - the entire Russian team has been suspended, without exceptions. Of course, Daria Klishina alone will not greatly affect the medal alignment, but the Russian national team still has one chance for an athletics podium. And the weightlifters didn't have a single chance.
"The Russians have caused serious damage to the reputation of weightlifting more than once. Therefore, in order to maintain the status of the sport, a corresponding sanction was applied," he explains. International Federation weightlifting. You can't argue with that - too many Russians from this sport came across last years on doping. The head of the Russian Olympic Committee (ROC), Alexander Zhukov, in an interview with rsport.ru, expressed the hope that Russia would be able to put up a "small team" in weightlifting in Rio, but these dreams were ruined.
Some are traveling in full force
The situation is clearer with other disciplines. Apparently, the Games will be attended by Russian volleyball teams - men and women (both traditionally among the favorites, especially men, champions of London 2012), handball players, boxers, synchronized swimmers, as well as a team table tennis... All these athletes - there are about 70 of them - on Thursday, July 28, in an organized manner flew from Moscow to Brazil on a regular flight.
Representatives of a number of other sports have no problems either. According to sport-express.ru, in full force, in accordance with the number of licenses won, the Olympians from Russia will compete in the following disciplines: sports and rhythmic gymnastics, trampoline jumping, fencing, shooting, triathlon, beach volleyball, judo, equestrian sports, tennis and taekwondo.
Archers and badminton players do not expect difficulties. Representatives of these sports will either fly to Rio de Janeiro later, or are already in South America... In total, all these sports are attended by at least 153 participants.
Minimal losses
The squad of Russian wrestlers lost one athlete - two-time champion world freestyle wrestling Viktor Lebedev will miss the Olympics due to disqualification from 2006. However, 16 other wrestlers must take to the mat in Rio. One Russian participant will be missing in modern pentathlon and in sailing. The pentathletes have been suspended by Maxim Kustov, and his three teammates are flying to Brazil.
The situation is similar for yachtsmen. According to the press service of the All-Russian Sailing Federation, Pavel Sozykin was not allowed to compete, therefore at least six Russian yachtsmen will compete for medals at the Olympics. It is possible that Sozykin will be replaced, since he is in the crew of two.
In water sports, only swimmers have losses - seven people are disqualified, thirty will start. Synchronized swimmers, water polo players (the men's team did not qualify for the Olympics) and divers have no problems with admission - in total 60 representatives will go to Rio aquatic species sports from Russia.
Units will notice the loss of fighters
Among the rowers, the losses are more than impressive. Of the 28 Russians who qualified for the Games in rowing, the International Rowing Federation allowed only one crew to compete - a four without a helmsman. For rowers in kayaks and canoes, the number of Olympic licenses won was initially less - 14. Five kayakers and canoeists were barred from competing at the Olympics by the decision of the International Canoe Federation, while the number of participants will be reduced not by 5, but by 4 athletes (one was replaced).
Context
Cyclists will also miss a large part of the team. It was assumed that 17 athletes would defend the honor of Russia in Rio. Olga Zabelinskaya, Ilnur Zakarin and Sergei Shilov, who were suspended for doping in the past, will definitely not go to the Olympics. Two more athletes - Kirill Sveshnikov and Dmitry Sokolov - were suspended due to the mention in the report of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA).
There is one more surname in this document, but it has not yet been announced. Russian cyclist coach Alexander Kuznetsov, in a letter to the head of the IOC, Thomas Bach, called for the decision on Sveshnikov and Sokolov to be canceled, but for now, it should be expected that 11 Russian cyclists will take to the track and highway in Brazil.
If all of the above numbers change (some Russian athletes have applied to the Court of Arbitration for Sport, CAS), then, most likely, insignificantly. Over 260 Russian participants at the Rio Olympics is a very good result, considering that even less than a week ago, the entire Russian national team was threatened with suspension from the main starts of the four-year period.
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Swimmer Vladimir Morozov
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Cyclist Olga Zabelinskaya
Cyclist Olga Zabelinskaya, two-time bronze medalist of the previous Games, was not admitted to the current one due to the use of octopamine in 2014. In February 2016, she entered into a pre-trial settlement with the International Cycling Union, which allowed her to start performing and take part in the Olympics. But the report of the WADA commission and the decision of the IOC deprived Zabelinskaya, the contender for the medal, of this chance.
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Cyclist Ilnur Zakarin
Ilnur Zakarin, multiple winner and prize-winner of bicycle races in Europe and Russia, winner of stages at the prestigious Tour de France and Giro d'Italia, will not perform in Brazil in 2009 due to the use of illegal drugs.
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Rower Ivan Podshivalov
Among Russian masters rowing to the Olympics, three were not allowed - Ivan Podshivalov (pictured), Anastasia Karabelshchikova (both for previous doping disqualifications) and Ivan Balandin. However, due to the impossibility of replacing them, the Russian national team actually lost much more athletes, since all the suspended athletes played in the "eights", hoping to be successful in Brazil.
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Weightlifter Tatyana Kashirina
Weightlifter Tatyana Kashirina in Rio would be the favorite in her heavyweight category. 4-time world champion, multiple European champion in London 2012 took silver, setting three world records. Kashirina had problems with doping, which have come around now, 10 years ago, when at that time the 15-year-old athlete was disqualified for 2 years. It is not yet clear whether other weightlifters from the Russian Federation will go to Brazil.
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Pentathlete Maxim Kustov
The pentathlete Maxim Kustov, the medalist of the World Championships in individual and team standings, was also suspended from the Games; in 2014 he was convicted of using trenbolone, methenolone and oxandrolone. The Moscow Anti-Doping Laboratory, according to the WADA Commission, concealed this fact. The doping test of Kustov, like that of another Russian pentathlete missing the Olympics, Ilya Frolov, was altered, the commission believes.
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Wrestler Viktor Lebedev
Freestyle wrestler Viktor Lebedev, two-time world champion, is not traveling to Brazil due to a 2006 disqualification when, as an 18-year-old junior, he was caught on weight-loss drugs. In Rio Lebedev, not without reason, counted on a medal.
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The most successful and famous Russian tennis player was disqualified at the beginning of 2016 for the use of meldonium, and Maria Sharapova did not have time to tell about her Olympic plans. However, in 2012 she won Olympic silver and would hardly have agreed to less at the Games in Brazil.
Out of 387 Russian athletes announced for participation in the 2016 Summer Olympics, no more than 200 will be able to compete in Rio de Janeiro. In addition to 68 suspended domestic athletes, dozens of representatives of other disciplines will not perform in Brazil. British media believe that the Russian representation will be reduced to 40 people.
Deny admission
The decision to admit the Russian national team to the Olympics caused a storm of emotions in the Western press. USA Today called the decision of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) "a staggering lack of consequences for the largest state-sponsored doping program, which has not been in sport since the days of the GDR," the British Daily Mail announced Sunday "the day the Olympic Games were destroyed," and The The Telegraph considered that "the white flag of surrender is flying over the IOC."
The latest edition went even further: according to its journalists, the IOC will use the services of independent experts to "weed out" Russian athletes who have undergone insufficiently strict anti-doping checks before the Rio Olympics. After the indicated procedure, the composition of the Russian national team may be reduced to 40 people.
It is reported that by such actions the IOC will try to soften the critical attitude that arose after the verdict was passed against the national Olympic team. This means that almost 90 percent of Russian athletes who are declared to participate in the Games may eventually miss the competition.
But so far, the note in The Telegraph looks like nothing more than a horror story. According to "Lenta.ru" information, the composition of the Olympic team may be cut by half. The official list of Russian participants in the Games in Brazil will be announced on July 28. However, everything here depends on the opinion of the notorious "independent experts", who, most likely, will be tasked to weed out the maximum possible number of athletes.
“The lists are being reconciled, each of our sports federation interacts with a specialized international federation. There are some athletes who do not meet the IOC criteria. Based on the results of this work, conclusions will be drawn about the composition. The same newspaper has already predicted once that our entire team will be banned, "Interfax quotes the head of the Russian Olympic Committee (ROC) Alexander Zhukov.
Last week, the ROC approved a list of 387 athletes to participate in the Olympics, including 68 athletes. International Association athletics federations(IAAF) only allowed long jumper Daria Klishina, who has been training in the United States in recent years, to the tournament in Rio. The rest were denied participation.
The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) informant Yulia Stepanova, who was not admitted on the basis of a precedent related to the use of doping, will not go to the Games. The athlete has already filed an appeal. “The decision is unfair, since it is based on false and false statements,” explained Stepanova and noted that the IOC's position contradicts the previous verdicts of the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS). It was also noted that Stepanova and her husband Vitaly refused to accept the IOC's invitation to attend the Games as guests.
Open list
So far, the list of suspended Russians not associated with athletics, is small. The head of the ROC, Alexander Zhukov, told TASS that 13 athletes with a doping background were included in the application of the Russian national team for the Olympic Games, but did not name their names: summer species sports. They are now actively working and checking the lists for the presence of athletes who had doping histories. According to my information, today there are 13 athletes. "
The International Swimming Federation (FINA) reported that seven people were deprived of the right to compete at the Olympics - Yulia Efimova, Anastasia Krapivina, Natalya Lovtsova, Mikhail Dovgalyuk, Vladimir Morozov, Nikita Lobintsev and Daria Ustinova. Most of them had serious chances for medals.
The representative of Efimova, previously admitted to the Games, and then again suspended, has already announced the athlete's intention to go to court. “Now we are preparing a lawsuit against Efimova. Most likely, it will be submitted to CAS on July 29, ”TASS quotes the swimmer's lawyer Artem Patsev.
“Out of seven people who were not admitted to the Olympics, three are surprising, who have absolutely no doping history,” Vice-President of the WFTU Denis Pankratov said on the air of the Russia-24 TV channel. - FINA refers to the WADA report, although just a month ago Rodchenkov (WADA informant - approx. "Lenta.ru") said that the swimming federation was not involved in this whole story. Now this is the main question of the All-Russian Swimming Federation (WFTU) ”.
The decision caused outrage in FINA as well. The head of the swimming federation Julio Maglione accused the WADA commission led by Richard McLaren of exceeding their powers: “By their recommendations, the members of the commission have seriously exceeded their powers. Sooner or later, WADA will have to clarify everything - the functions of this organization include control over doping and the approval of norms, and not reasoning about the situation in a particular country, this should be done by the IOC. "
It also became known about the removal from the Games of two Russian rowers-canoeists - Andrey Kraytor and Alexey Korovashkov, and three canoeists - Alexander Dyachenko, Elena Anyushina and Natalia Podolskaya. “The International Canoe Federation (ICF) has taken prompt action to remove five Russian athletes from the Olympic Games after receiving additional information about the names mentioned in the McLaren report. The athletes named in the report will no longer be eligible to compete in the Olympics, but the ICF will not impose a broad ban on the entire The Russian Federation"- said in a statement ICF.
International Volleyball Federation (FIVB) announced the ban Russian volleyball player Alexandra Markina - earlier the athlete was temporarily suspended from the competition on suspicion of using meldonium. "I'm already home. In the morning, the coach said that the FIVB did not allow me to participate in the Olympic Games. As for the national team, it will, of course, play, ”TASS quotes Markina. The volleyball player stressed that he would not appeal the suspension.
In the coming hours, the list of suspended Russians will expand. The hunt continues.
OCD ( Olympic Committee Russia) approved the composition of the team that will take part in the home Olympic Games. According to representatives of the ROC, this is the largest team in the history of the country.
The press service of the committee reports that the national team includes 223 people who represent 31 regions of the Russian Federation. The agency claims that even in Soviet times, the country never had such a huge representation at the Winter Olympics. Alexander Zhukov, who holds the post of President of the ROC, and Vitaly Mutko, who holds the post of Minister of Sports, spoke about the peculiarities of the Russian team.
Before the beginning of this meeting, Vitaly Mutko said that problems had arisen with some federations: for a long time there were heated and long discussions, but in the end the parties were able to find a compromise. As a result, the team is formed, the names of the substitutes have already been named and the deadlines for a possible replacement are known. Now the Russian athletes who will participate in the Games have begun the final stage of their training.
Zhukov and Mutko said that the team included many young and ambitious athletes. Alexander Zhukov is confident that the Russian team will be able to win medals in 11 sports (recall that in total, medals in 15 sports will be played at the Sochi Olympics). He is confident that in Sochi Russian athletes will be able to demonstrate their full potential.
At the same time, Vitaly Mutko added that in any case, Russian fans will support their compatriots. He is sure that with today the national team is not divided into representatives of a particular region, from today it is a united team of Russia.
Upon agreement Olympic squad most of all questions arose about the candidacy of Evgeni Plushenko, however, Alexander Zhukov reports that this decision was made by the Federation figure skating, he is confident that all procedures are in accordance with the regulations. At the same time, the head of the ROC stressed that he approves the decision of the federation, which believes that Plushenko has more chances of success.
Alexander Zhukov also said that in the near future the team will announce the name of the standard bearer, according to him, the athletes who are part of the national team will decide it themselves.
At the end of this meeting, journalists inquired about the problem of doping, but the Minister of Sports said that the doping services have no complaints about the Russian athletes who are part of the Olympic team.
"This is very important question, and we must give an exact answer to it - says Vitaly Mutko. - Every year it becomes more and more difficult to be an athlete, it is necessary to fill in modern system ADAMS, you need to train a lot and constantly meet with doping officers - you need to be a real professor. At the moment, there are no comments to our athletes. I would also like to add that our anti-doping laboratory has received the necessary license, today it is second only to the Cologne laboratory ”.
Journalists also inquired about security during the Olympics.
“At the moment, all the necessary security measures have been taken,” says Alexander Zhukov. - I am sure that the Games will be held without any incidents. Yesterday there was information about threats that were spreading over the Internet, but I am sure that this is a common provocation. "