The US government intends to officially name its military mission to aid Kiev and appoint a general to command it, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing Biden administration officials. This would formalize the operation that predates the escalation of hostilities in Ukraine and allow the Pentagon to award ribbons, medals, …
Read More »Twitter snickers at NYT for last-minute prioritization of gold medals over total haul after US barely edges ahead of China
Chinese athletes had been leading in the unofficial medal count right up to the very last days of the Tokyo Olympic Games. In most countries, Olympic teams are ranked on the leaderboard based on the number of golds, with ties broken by silver and then bronze medals. But the US …
Read More »From the whining over Russians winning medals to transgender weightlifting – the Tokyo 2020 Olympics have taught us much
These will forever be known as the ‘Pandemic Games’, played out in the shadow of Covid one year later than planned. Better late than never, some might say; others would argue these were the Games that never should have happened at all. But go ahead they did, and in …
Read More »Chechen authorities will spend more than ₽10 million in awards and medals Kadyrov with diamonds
Chechen authorities will spend more than RUB 10 million for 30 medals and orders named after the first President of the Republic Akhmad Kadyrov. The tender “MBH media” found on the procurement website. According to the documents, the regional authorities are going to buy 15 medals “in the memory of …
Read More »Sport, not for medals: the Secretary General of the Boxing Federation, commented on the decision of WADA
The Secretary General of Federation of Boxing of Russia Umar Kremlev sure that WADA made a mistake when they suspended Russia from participating in international competitions. He believes that we need to deal with individual athletes who knowingly violate the code of the world anti-doping Agency. “This is stupid, …
Read More »The national team of Russia on table tennis brought home several medals
From 6 to 8 September in Ostrava (Czech Republic) hosted the 14th traditional international tournament on table tennis among athletes with defeat of the locomotor and intellectual disabilities – Czech Open. The national team of Russia on a course of competitions won 2 gold, 3 silver and 8 bronze …
Read More »Jubilee international physics Olympiad, tel-Aviv, the Russians took five medals
Four gold medals and one silver medal won by the Russians at the 50 th International physics Olympiad for schoolchildren, held in Israeli tel Aviv. The winners were Gregory Bobkov, Alexey Shishkin and Vladimir Malinovsky from Moscow school number 1589 and Andrey Panferov from school-boarding school of a name of …
Read More »Accused of doping bobsledder Zubkov: Medals to give the IOC is not going
The former head of the bobsleigh Federation of Russia Alexander Zubkov declared that he would not return their Olympic medals. The international Olympic Committee had earlier disqualified him for doping and ordered to return the gold medals of the Sochi 2014 Olympics. “Let me repeat: the medals I earned honestly …
Read More »Ukrainians won 26 medals at the European Championships in summer sports
The national team of Ukraine took eighth place in the medal standings of the joint European championship on summer sports. In the championship of Europe in Berlin received the athletics and Glasgow were continental tournaments, water sports, sports and rhythmic gymnastics, rowing, triathlon, Golf and Cycling. Athletics From the German …
Read More »Russia lost 13 Olympic medals
IOC has completed the investigation against the Russian athletes.Russia has lost 13 medals of the winter Olympic games 2014 in Sochi after the International Olympic Committee (IOC) all 46 cases against the Russians opened after rechecking doping samples from the Olympics 2014. The IOC recognized the 43 Russian athlete who …
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