MOSCOW, 19 Feb. The Russian team at the Games in Beijing with 29 medals repeated the record for domestic teams in the number of medals won at one Winter Olympics. On Saturday, in the ski mass start at 28.4 km (the distance was reduced from 50 to 28.4 km due to weather conditions) Alexander Bolshunov won gold, Ivan Yakimushkin won silver. At the 1988 Games in Calgary, the Soviet Union team won 29 medals (11 gold, nine silver, nine bronze), the Russian team at the Sochi Olympics also took 11 gold , nine silver and nine bronze awards.
