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In the mixed team tournament, Russian ski jumpers came second

Russia (bbabo.net), - It seems unbelievable that the Russian ski jumping team won silver in the mixed team event at the Beijing Olympics.

In the history of Soviet ski jumpers, in 1968 Vladimir Belousov won two gold medals on both hills at the Grenoble Olympics. After that, no one else won and did not rise to the podium. The day before, Evgeny Klimov became fifth on a normal springboard. And this was already progress - the best result for Russian flying skiers since 2006, when Dmitry Vasilyev got into the top 10. In the women's individual tournament, Irina Avvakumova was seventh.

And then a new discipline - mixed team competition - and immediately the podium. Irma Makhinya, Danil Sadreev, Irina Avvakumova and Evgeny Klimov lost only to the Slovenian team. The Canadians finished third. But it was not without luck and the so-called Olympics factor, when the competition suddenly takes an unexpected turn. Several leaders and favorites had their results annulled at once. Sarah Takanashi of Japan, Daniela Irashko-Stolz of Austria and Katarina Althaus of Germany did not count their attempts due to inappropriate costumes. Let's wait for official comments, but the matter is most likely about the size of the overalls, which affects aerodynamics. Then, due to the same problems with the equipment, two jumps from the girls in the second attempt were immediately thrown out of the protocols by the Norwegians.

The circumstances were in our favor. But the Russian athletes also showed excellent jumps. Take Klimov's final 103m attempt!

The ice leaves from under the feet

Russian short-tracking Elena Seregine and Sophia Celliolov could not compete for the medals at a distance of 500 meters at the Beijing Olympic Games. Seregina made it to the semi-finals and made it to the final. V. Prosvirnova was disqualified at the quarter-final stage for interfering with her opponent.

“I took a chance, went to overtake, got disqualified for it,” Prosvirnova explained to reporters. - At the moment it seems that the risk is justified, and then it was clear that there was no speed at all. I didn’t pass, plus the Chinese woman closed it a lot. We will do our best to recover from this failure.

Meanwhile

Netherlands speed skater Irene Wust repeated the record of the Soviet sportswoman Lidia Skoblikova in the number of gold medals at the Olympics.

At the 2022 Winter Games in Beijing, 35-year-old Wüst won the 1,500m and won her sixth career Olympic gold. Previously, she became the winner of the Olympics in Turin (3000 m), Vancouver (1500 m), Sochi (team race) and Pyeongchang (1500 m). Skoblikova won gold medals at the 1960 Games in Squaw Valley (1500 m, 3000 m) and in 1964 in Innsbruck (500 m, 1000 m, 1500 m, 3000 m).

The last time our ski jumpers won Olympic medals was at the 1968 Games in Grenoble

Wust, by the way, can win the "gold" in the team race. But Lydia Skoblikova is not sorry for the record. “Time goes by. New heroes, new records,” she said on the air of Match TV. “Look what seconds they show, even men in the 60s didn’t run like that in our country. Wust, only good luck and my congratulations. Great athlete!

Irene herself is still in shock.

“I can’t describe in words everything that I feel now,” Wust tried to comment on the success. - I am literally overwhelmed with emotions. Until I fully understand what happened. But this is just crazy. It seems that some kind of power descends on me at the Olympics. I won my first gold in Turin in 2006. Then I was only 19. To repeat this success after four, eight, 12 and 16 years is just fantastic.

In the mixed team tournament, Russian ski jumpers came second