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Post by Admin on Feb 11, 2018 19:07:53 GMT
Medvedeva's result allowed the team of Olympic athletes from Russia to take second place following the results of short programs and continue the fight for medals. Five teams qualified for the free program: Canada (35 points), Olympic athletes from Russia (31), USA (29), Japan (26) and Italy (26). Later on Sunday, within the command tournament, arbitrary programs will take place in sports pairs, the team of Olympic athletes from Russia will be represented by Natalya Zabiyako and Alexander Enbert, who replaced Evgeny Tarasov and Vladimir Morozov. Competitions in the team tournament at the Olympics will end on February 12.
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Post by Admin on Feb 12, 2018 18:55:14 GMT
Canada’s Olympic athletes are still getting used to their national anthem’s new lyrics. Moments after winning the country’s first gold medal at the Pyeongchang Winter Games with a dominating performance in the team figure skating event Monday, Patrick Chan searched the new gender-neutral version to “O Canada” on his phone. “I looked it up, I Googled it really quick to make sure that I knew when it was coming,” he said with a grin. “It’s quite a change when you grow up singing it a certain way. While the skaters were all in on trying to sing the new version, it didn’t quite come off as planned. “We reminded each other before we went up there, ‘OK these are the new words,’” said Eric Radford. “Then we were singing and we got near the end and I was like, ‘Wait where did that lyric go?’ I don’t even remember what I sang.” “When the anthem came I still sang the wrong lyric,” added Meagan Duhamel. “I laughed to myself and thought, ‘Oh we just went over trying to remember it.’
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Post by Admin on Feb 13, 2018 19:22:34 GMT
Nominally, Russia is barred from the Winter Olympics, but that was not obvious at the team figure skating event on Sunday as a cheering section waved the Russian flag and wore ponchos and hockey jerseys in the red, white and blue of the Russian tricolor and shirts and hats that said “Russia in My Heart.” If there is any enmity toward the Russians for a state-backed system of doping that operated at the 2014 Winter Olympics, it does not appear evident, at least publicly, in this most visible and closely followed of sports at the Games. The audience clapped politely on Sunday, and there seemed to be no booing. After the final round on Monday, the team of Russians won silver behind Canada, which took the gold medal. The United States claimed the bronze. “We felt like at home,” the Russian ice dancer Dmitri Soloviev said. “We felt that every person sitting in each corner of the stadium was yelling the name of Russia.”
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Post by Admin on Feb 14, 2018 18:58:39 GMT
Russian figure skaters will compete on Thursday for the medals of the Olympic tournament in pair skating. Evgenia Tarasova / Vladimir Morozov are second to the free program with a minimum backlog (0.71 points) from the leaders - the Chinese pair Sui Wenjing / Han Tsun. Natalia Zabiyako / Alexander Enbert are eighth, but 2.47 points separate them from third-placed Canadians Megan Duamel / Eric Radford. The current world champions Sui / Han and the bronze medalists of the world championship-2017 Tarasova / Morozov on Wednesday showed the two strongest programs of the short program. To the world record of Russians Tatyana Volosozhar / Maxim Trankov, established four years ago in Sochi, however, the leaders of the current Games could not come close, but still the result for 80 points is an extra-class indicator. Under the new rules, the group of the strongest four couples were divided into two subgroups in a draw by two lots - in order to maximize the Olympic intrigue. Thus, Sui / Han and Tarasova / Morozov, pulling out the numbers, struggled only to execute the arbitrary program by the penultimate - or the last ones, as they like. As a result, the Chinese pulled out number 15, which means that the Russians will finish the program of the competition. However, Tarasova and Morozov still will not to know how the competitors skated. It is believed that unnecessary thoughts skaters before going to the ice to anything. And wait for the fourth starting number after the warm-up is still not as long as, say, the sixth in the competition of singles. Therefore, the order of access to the ice in the fight for gold should not be of great importance. What will the Chinese take in a free program? In this season, their most difficult element is a twist in four turns. Earlier in the arsenal of the duo there was also a quadruple ejection, but this season he remained "in reserve." Too much of Sui and Khan had injuries - including the last in January this year, when due to a chin injury from a partner and aggravation of chronic problems with a partner, the Chinese withdrew from the Tournament of four continents. The Russian couple also has a quadruple twist, demonstrating this element for the third season already. Tarasova and Morozov did not wiggle for the fourth emissions, but also with the triples Russians gain very decent scores. However, according to personal records, they Sui / Khanu inferior - including in a free program (155.10 from the Chinese against 151.23 from the Russians). In the only personal meeting of this season - the Finals Grand Prix in Nagoya - the Chinese duo was stronger (second place against the fifth).
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Post by Admin on Feb 15, 2018 19:14:54 GMT
Aljona Savchenko and Bruno Massot of Germany unexpectedly won the gold medal in pairs figure skating on Thursday, rebounding from fourth place after the short program with a stirring performance of passion, power and control. The Chinese pair Sui Wenjing and Han Cong, who were first after the short program, made a couple of mistakes on their jumps in the long program, and the errors proved decisive in an event decided by less than half a point. The Germans won the competition with 235.90 points, while the Chinese took silver with 235.47 points. Meagan Duhamel and Eric Radford, who played a significant role in winning Canada’s gold medal in the team skating event, collected bronze on Thursday with 230.15 points.
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