MOSCOW, February 20 The President of the Russian Olympic Committee (ROC) Stanislav Pozdnyakov named The Beijing Olympic Games are the most difficult in their lives. The closing ceremony of the Games will take place on Sunday. The Russian team at the 2022 Olympics won 32 medals — six gold, 12 silver, 14 bronze. The Russian team set a new record for the national teams in terms of the number of medals won at one Winter Olympics. At the 1988 Games in Calgary, the USSR national team won 29 medals (11 gold, nine silver, nine bronze). The Russian team took the same set of awards at the Olympics in Sochi. «Personally, for me, it was the most difficult of those that I went through as an athlete, coach or leader. There was a difficult Pyeongchang, an unprecedented Tokyo, but in Beijing there was a concentration of events that constantly required prompt decisions, in which there is no room for error, was significantly higher. There is nothing even to compare with. And if we multiply by the emotions that the performances of our athletes brought us, sometimes diametrically opposed, from the most offensive episodes to moments of sincere delight, then we got a real test that will be remembered for a very long time,» the ROC website quotes Pozdnyakov. «I managed to attend almost all the competitions, despite the rather large remoteness of the clusters. I am glad that our athletes were able to win medals in many disciplines, including where we have not had success for a long time There are some problems in certain types, this remains to be analyzed, as well as the fact that a number of leaders failed to realize their potential leaders of our teams, whom we had the right to count on, based on their results in international competitions in the pre-Olympic and Olympic seasons. But in general, I think that if the team surpassed even the home games in terms of the number of medals won, this is a very worthy indicator,» Pozdnyakov added.
