![]() Yes, there was a tie for the gold medal in the Women's Downhill (Dominique Gisin, Switzerland Tina Maze, Slovenia), and tie for bronze in Men's Super-G (Bode Miller, USA Jan Hudec, Canada). You can call it 'innovative' scoring methods! A Gold Medal Tie in Women's Downhillĩ8 events were held, but there were 295 medals rewarded. 5 of their 9 gold medals came in sports which weren't held in Vancouver in 2010.Įven more, those sports represented 5/9 of gold medals, and 9/28 in overall medals. The United States: Winning the Innovative Sports Modern Russia has competed in the Olympics under 4 banners:Ĭombined, their medal count at the Winter Olympics is 194 + 124 + 0 = 318 medals! Add those up and they'd be second all time in the Winter Games through 2014, behind Norway. That's a full 15.6% of all medals in the games! Include the post-Soviet states (gold/silver/bronze): However, their count is even more impressive if you normalize it for countries previously in the USSR. Russia won 33 medals out of 295, a full 11.2% of all medals in the 2014 games. Russia had an Extremely Good Performance in the 2014 Olympics The United State's Alpine Snowboarding team didn't back him even though he had won 4 previous gold medals for the USA. Vic Wild – of White Salmon, Washington – won medals for Russia. The US even had an unforced error, causing an athlete to play for Russia. Notably, Victor Ahn (with a personal medal count of 4: - 3 gold and a bronze) was originally from South Korea. While countries formerly in the USSR would have made Russia's performance even more dominant, Russia benefited from some adoptions. Russia's Unification and Historical Footnotes on the Olympics Interestingly, 5 of those gold medals came in sports making their debut in the 2014 games. The ten meteorite-embedded awards will be bestowed to the gold medal athletes competing in speedskating (men's 1500), short-track speedskating (women's 1000 and men's 1500), cross-country skiing (women's relay), ski jumping (men's K-125), Alpine skiing (women's super giant slalom) and skeleton (men's) events.Russia was the absolute count winner and dominated both fronts: 33 total medals and 13 golds.įor my American friends, we at least won 9 golds and the "Bronze Title" with 12. The Chelyabinsk medals will be presented to the athletes separately and not as part of the traditional podium ceremony. The meteorite medals are not replacing the Olympic gold medals awarded to athletes on Saturday, contrary to some media reports. The meteorite pieces are affixed in a small indentation at the center of the medals. The videos from that day quickly went viral, shared across the planet by social media. The medallions, which were crafted out of gold and silver, feature a design that was inspired by the footage of the meteor's fall as captured by car-mounted dash cams. In addition to the those that will be awarded to the Olympic committees of those nations whose athletes win gold medals Saturday, one is being given to the regional Chelyabinsk museum, another will stay in Sochi and the remainder will be offered to private collections. In total, 50 of the meteorite-adorned medallions have been minted. "We will hand out our medals to all the athletes who will win gold on that day, because both the meteorite strike and the Olympic Games are global events," Alexei Betekhtin, culture minister for the Chelyabinsk region, said in a statement. Ten of those medals will be presented to those who place gold at the Sochi 2014 Olympics on the anniversary of the Chelyabinsk meteor fall.Īrtwork for the meteorite medals to be presented to Sochi 2014 Olympic athletes by Chelyabinsk Oblast officials. Over the past year, many fragments of the Chelyabinsk meteorite have been recovered, with some of the pieces heading to labs for study, many landing on the collectors' market, others going to museums and a small set being placed aside for a special set of medallions. The space rock broke into hundreds, if not thousands, of small fragments, which rained down over the area's snow- covered fields. Regarded as the most widely-witnessed strike in modern history, the Chelyabinsk meteor was also the largest recorded natural object to have fallen from space since 1908. Saturday marks exactly one year since a small near-Earth asteroid entered the Earth's atmosphere over Russia and exploded over the Chelyabinsk Oblast (region). 15) - because on that day, and that day alone, earning a gold medal also means being awarded a piece of a rock that fell from space. ![]() ![]() What is better than winning gold at the Olympics? Winning gold at the Winter Olympic Games in Sochi, Russia on Saturday (Feb. ![]()
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