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The winter games are also pushed into the background a bit. When you watch the games you don't have the idea that these are the Olympic winter games. The focus of all the news these days remains on corona, even though the pandemic is now gradually coming to an end. It's great that those athletes prepare themselves for 4 years. Some athletes even only participate in a part/distance, if you are not at your peak then you have trained for 4 years for nothing.

Politics will always be part of the games, after all athletes do not go to the games only representing themselves but show their affiliation to their country and in fact compete in delegations that represent their countries.

It is really sad, after all the games should represent the fraternity between the many different countries and instead what we get most of the time is the opposite, and shows the whole world how divided we really are and how those differences are making us to grow apart more and more as times passes.

Highlights from Day 9 of the Beijing Winter Olympics

Erin Jackson wins gold in women's 500m speed skating.
After Marte Olsbu Roeiseland wins the women's biathlon 10km pursuit, Norway moves back to the top of the medal table.
Switzerland's Marco Odermatt wins gold in men's giant slalom.
Cross Country skier Sergey Ustiugov wins gold for ROC in men's 4x10km relay.
France's Quentin Fillon Maillet wins men's 12.5 km pursuit.
The Netherlands set a new record in the women's short track speed skating 3000m relay.
Shaoang Liu wins gold in the 500m short track speed skating event for Hungary.

Olympic Medal Table (Top 10)


Source: https://olympics.com/beijing-2022/olympic-games/en/results/all-sports/medal-standings.htm

Competition between Norway and Germany tighten further as Norway is leading by margin of just one gold. Erin Jackson became the FIRST American woman to win an individual medal since 2002 in skating event. https://t.co/tTnHVmloQS

Majority like me watches Olympics from home and pandemic have no effect on us. As I don't have money to go and watch Olympics in other countries. Very few in the world has that much resources.

Norway still is the first.


Politics still is incorporated in every international event that the arrival of Putin in the ceremony was even frowned by some media. Surely the commission has faults here because Kamila Valieva was not protected her privacy she is a minor and was publicized. This is going to affect the child's mental health.

It was said that the result was from Dec 2021, the newer result that was submitted was negative which was conducted within 20days before the Olympics. Both recent doping tests in Europe which she also participated European skating championship and in Beijing were negative.

Past Olympiad winners Norway and Germany each had 14 gold medals, with Norway topping the list with more silver and bronze medals. Unlike the Summer Olympics where the winner gets 40+ gold medals, the value of each gold in the Winter Olympics is higher and each medal has a strong impact on the distribution of places. It turns out that the winner of the Winter Olympiad in total gains less medals than the number of gold medals of the winner of the Summer Olympiad.

Indeed. So I guess that the USA can defend their position at number 3 but if the other country wins on some games and grabs one gold, their competitor will also have a chance to get a better position. Every country has a race to be at the top of the position while the events will soon end.

It will be more difficult for the player because they must use their best to win and beat the opponent. In this pandemic, watching the Olympics can entertain us while we are at home so it helps us to kill the bore.

15-year-old figure skater phenom Kamila Valieva from Russia recently tested positive in doping test. You are right in saying that USA and its allies from EU are not touched by authorities in mega events like olympics. This clearly tells that games are no more neutral rather politicised. Russian athletes are representing there country under the acronym ROC, something very strange to digest for person like me.

What is ROC at the Winter Olympics? Why Russian athletes are competing at Beijing 2022 despite doping ban

It certainly is. 
However, let's remember the last time Russia is to blame for everything!  In Tokyo, excellently performed gymnasts from Russia were wrongly sued, and now there is a scandal around the world's strongest female f gurist.  For some reason, it is with those who claim to be worthy medals.  And at the same time, all the rest and Norway and from Germany and of course from the USA - all athletes are absolutely clean.  I affirm that this is not the case.  And this is all a scam and not a fair game of dirty officials from the Olympic Committee. 
And also keep in mind how much more difficult it is to train and win for such Russian athletes who are practically being hounded.

USA, Netherlands and Sweden differ only on silver medals they have same gold medals. One gold medal by each team can change there position.
USA men team has defeated Canada first time in decade. ICE hockey final is still left so usa has a chance to grab one more gold.

It is surprise to see USA can jump from number 6 into number 3 by adding 1 gold and replace Netherlands position while the other country is not moves from their position. As I say before, every country will try hard to compete with the other and be the winner in every sports. It will not stop because the other country will do the same. The clock still running and will not let the weak stay at the current position.

Another succesful biathlon race for Norway. Johannes Boe won sprint race. Despite that he missed one shot, at one point he had over 40 seconds advantage against others and he won confident. His brotherTarjei Boe won bronze. Quentin Fillon Maillet from France won silver. Interesting that there was very few biathletes who missed 0 shots, but they were slow on track and weren't able to fight for good places. Tmorrow there will be chasing race with 60 fastest athletes.
What a game between Russia and Czech Republic hockey teams. Game ended with Czech win 5:4 after oovertime. And it was meaningless game for both teams! 4th Czech goal was amazing - it was scored from 0° angle, though, it was quite big mistake by goalkeeper. In other game Denmark made another surprise and beat Switzerland.
Don't know how many of you watched Large Hill ski jumping, but I was amazed about one athlete - Simon Ammann from Switzerland - it was 7th Olympic games fro him. Amazing.

Olympics always were more or less political, just remember 1936, 1976, 1980 or 1984 games. Some people say that poltics and sports shouldn't be mixed, but poltics always been big part of sports. And IMO, if in place of Russia there would be some small country, they would be banned without any questions.

Highlights from Day 8 of the Beijing Winter Olympics

Germany remains on top of the medal table.
Germany's Hannah Neise wins women's skeleton gold.
Johannes Thingnes Boe wins gold for Norway in the biathlon mixed relay.
In large hill ski jumping, old went to Marius Lindvik.
After winning gold at mixed team snowboarding, the USA sits third in the medal table.
China's Gao Tingyu sets speed skating record on its way to gold.

Olympic Medal Table (Top 10)


Source: https://olympics.com/beijing-2022/olympic-games/en/results/all-sports/medal-standings.htm

I don’t understand why there are always some claims against Russian athletes, then these are some continuations of doping scandals, then this is a ban on performing under the national flag.  
In general, the Olympic movement has turned into some kind of political rather than sports struggle.  And this is very upsetting, I want to watch fair competitions, and not these asshole showdowns.

Member of the International Olympic Committee Richard Pound (Canada) called on Russia to miss several Olympic Games because of the ongoing cases of doping among Russian athletes. He stated this on February 12 in an interview with Reuters.

  “At a certain moment, when a country is absolutely incorrigible, you find yourself in a situation where this country needs to take a time out. We could say: we can help you. You have a problem. We'll help you focus on it. Take time out for one, two or three Olympics until you have it all under control. But the Russians don't help themselves because they have absolutely no remorse. They don't admit anything, they appeal against every decision. I think the approach was probably too lenient to allow them to act as the Russian Olympic Committee,” Pound said.

That's what the crazy nonsense of the old senile. They just mock Russian athletes.
What kind of Olympics is a politicized disgrace!!!

Germany is leading with 7 gold while Norway and USA are at second and third slot with 6 and 5 golds. Surely usa is now in a position to take no 1 slot as 6 days still left. Canada is not in top list, may be they have not sent there full strength squad for participation in this Olympics aimed boycott.

With 7-8 days remaining before it all ends, all countries will definitely try even harder to increase the amount of gold, silver and bronze. It will looks hard for every country because they all want to be the top.

I do not following ICE hockey but that could be interesting to watch the game.

Every big event will surprise the audience so it is normal if we do not expect to see a country that can be in the top position. But some commentators maybe say many things, including being a whistleblower to blow up the news. It seems Canada is still trying hard to lift the position so I wonder where Canada's position is in the final results.

In hockey tournament Russia achieved another difficult win, this time they beat Denmark 2:0 and they directly qualified to 1/4 final. Tomorrow very early in morning Canada and USA will play - one of main games of hockey tournament, Canada are considered as quite obvious favorites.
Germany dominate in skeleton, same like luge - gold and silver in women competition and surprisingly China took bronze.
Also, tomorrow we will have men 10 km biathlong sprint, men medal events in skeleton and snowboard cross of mixed teams.

I'm not very familiar with figure skating, but in other sports team competitions like relay in swimming or athletics, if one athlete get caught with doping, whole team get disqualified and they lose medals. While this story looks unclear and one of reasons why is that doping regulations for athletes under 16 years is a bit different. Also, doping test was taken few month before Olympics, so, it's strange why it took so long to get results of it.

Did Germany overtake Norway with more gold medals? Look, this is what I wasn't expecting. But there are still many medals to be distributed. We'll see how this fight goes.

It's interesting how the US is already catching up with the gold medals, whereas Canada is strangely not in the top 10 of the gold medals.

Highlights from Day 7 of the Beijing Winter Olympics

With Christopher Grotheer's win in men's skeleton, Germany adds its 7th gold medal.
American snowboarding legend Shaun White broke down in tears after his last ever competitive run at Beijing Games
Two-time Olympic gold medalist Mikaela Shiffrin rediscovers her rhythm in Friday's super-G
Finland's Iivo Niskanen wins gold in the men's 15km classic
U.S. women's hockey team advances to semi-finals with victory over Czech Republic
Olympic gold for Japan as snowboarder Ayumu Hirano wins half-pipe


Olympic Medal Table (Top 10)


Source: https://olympics.com/beijing-2022/olympic-games/en/results/all-sports/medal-standings.htm

Germany is now leading with 7 gold and Norway is at no second with 6 golds. There are 7 or 8 days still left in the game so medal tally will change in coming days. USA had a slow start but on day 6 they are at number six with 4 gold.
Anyone following ICE hockey? Canada Women beat Sweden 11-0 and got there position reserved in semis.