For the seventh day of competition at the Beijing Olympics, the Russian team did not win a single medal.
In the medal standings, the Russian team dropped to ninth place. The athletes won two gold, three silver and six bronze medals. The top three places in the table are currently occupied by Germany (6-3-0), Norway (5-3-4) and Austria (4-5-4). In terms of the total number of medals, Russia is in fourth place.
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Russian skier Natalya Nepryaeva came fourth today in the 10 km time trial. She was 0.1 seconds short of the bronze medal. The first place in the race was taken by the Norwegian Teresa Johaug with a result of 28 minutes 6.3 seconds, the second place was taken by Kerttu Niskanen from Finland (+0.4 seconds), the third was the Finnish Krista Pämäkoski (+31.5). Earlier at the Games in Beijing, Nepryaeva took second place in the skiathlon.
Russian lugers Tatyana Ivanova, Roman Repilov, Alexander Denisiev and Vladislav Antonov took fourth place in the team relay. Athletes from Germany won the gold medal in this discipline.
Skater Natalya Voronina took sixth place in the 5000m race. She covered the distance in 6 minutes 56.99 seconds. Russian Semyon Yelistratov won bronze in the 1500m short track yesterday.
On the eve of the ceremony of awarding figure skaters at the Olympic Games in Beijing was postponed. Portal Inside the Games suggested that this may be due to the result of a doping test of 15-year-old figure skater Valieva. Information about the delay of the event was confirmed by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and the International Skating Union, but did not name the reasons.
In the event of an anti-doping rule violation by an athlete who has not reached the age of 16, the details of what happened are not officially disclosed .