Photo: organizing committee, infographics by the author
Olympic Games in South Korea reach the finish line.
The Russian team is still without a gold medal, still replenishes the piggy bank thanks to the young ski team, and somewhere high, high in the mountains, Germany and Norway decide which of them will win the overall standings. Yes, what we have been waiting for so long has finally happened - competitions have started in figure skating among women. After short program Russian figure skaters set two world records in a row. space achievement Evgenia Medvedeva(81.61 points) after ten minutes it was beaten Alina Zagitova(82.92). Fantastic numbers, unattainable. But that's exactly what we were counting on. Gold is already here.
The Russians got so close to the gold medal only in ski competitions in men - twice. In the relay race and in the team sprint until the decisive moment, Denis Spitsov and Alexandra Bolshunova there were chances for first place, but a man named Johannes Hesflot Klebo multiplied them by zero, demonstrating a completely different level. You can argue for a long time what the result would be if you were at this Olympics Sergey Ustyugov, the absence of which no one has ever explained. But in this variation of the compositions in Pyeongchang, the Norwegians simply have no competitors.
But competition in biathlon is high. At this celebration of life, the “gold” was already won by the neighbors from Belarus, the Swedes collected a whole armful, the Italians were among the prizes. We can only envy and wonder. And if what biathlon will take place it was clear beforehand that we could not even count on such success in skiing.
But something happened that we feared.
The whole story with the performance under neutral flag, which began from afar - with the World Championships in athletics- was supposed to end in Pyeongchang. In the absence of doping violations, state attributes would have been returned to Russia at the closing ceremony. Disturbing news came from the sport where it was least expected. It would be nice if they were cyclic views Well, even hockey. But curling... And what did they find? Meldonium. It would seem that everything has long been passed and studied, and the drug is forgotten for sports. Happening Alexander Krushelnitsky showed the opposite. The fact that mildronate does not contribute to the improvement of sports performance has been repeatedly said and there is no great need for its use. Especially in curling. However, all further conversations are already crossing the legal plane, and it seems to be for a long time. On the this moment athletes by decision of the Sports arbitration court(CAS) stripped of medals.
It so happened that, apart from skiing, the Russians do not have “medal events” where awards would be obtained in series. As it was in Sochi with a short track, biathlon and the same skis. Seriality was replaced by surprise. We have already talked about success Natalia Voronina and Nikita Tregubov. Even more sudden were the medals in freestyle skiing in men. In acrobatics "bronze" pleased Ilya Burov, and in ski-cross, despite the fall, Sergei Ridzik. Even if you prepared for these Games, studied and looked through the composition, then these names were hardly paid attention to in the first place.
The transition to hockey will be as clumsy as the Olympic hockey tournament itself.
The results of the Russian team prove that they are in a league of their own, and if the Russians do not engage in underestimation (which happened in the game with Slovakia), then gold medals will be harder not to win than vice versa. Of surprises - the departure of Sweden ( best team group stage) or Germany's advance to the semi-finals. You can call it whatever you like.
Women's hockey indulges even less diversity. There was no need to worry about the traditional US-Canada final even before the start of the Olympics (by the way, the Americans won), but it was nice to see the Russian team in the match for third place. If the Russians had conceded one goal less, it would have been very good. And so - a defeat from the Finns with a minimum score and best result in their own Olympic history.
Three days before the end of the Games, Russia has practically lost the chance to break into the top ten overall standings. If we can still count on fulfilling the norm for gold medals, then in terms of the number of silver medals, our rivals are out of reach.
Anton EVSTIGNEEV / MR News Service ©
Photo: organizing committee, infographics by the author
Israel, as the host of the competition, was able to surprise everyone. What was the cost, for example, of organizing the appearance on the same stage of Verka Serduchka and Conchita Wurst, as well as the subsequent performance of Madonna.
As for the results, according to the opinion of the professional jury, as well as the results of voting by viewers, the representative of the Netherlands won Duncan Lawrence singing "Arcade".
What place did Sergey Lazarev take:
The Russian competitor, Sergey Lazarev, took 9th place according to the professional jury of European countries, and 3rd place subject to audience voting.Where will the next Eurovision Song Contest 2020 take place?
According to Eurovision rules, the next contest is hosted by the country whose contestant won the current event.Since Duncan Lawrence was chosen as the best performer, Eurovision 2020 will be held in the Netherlands (Holland).
When will Rick and Morty season 4 be released?
Officially announced that Season 4 of Rick and Morty will be released in the "Adult Swim" block of the "Cartoon Network" TV channel in November 2019. This was announced by the heroes themselves in an animated announcement posted on the project's Twitter page.
The exact day of the premiere, unfortunately, is still unknown, as well as the number of episodes in the season. We can assume that the premiere of the fourth season will take place on November 3, 2019, and the number of episodes, as before, will be 10.
When will Rick and Morty season 4 come out?
*In November 2019
Note that earlier the channel ordered the production of 70 new episodes of the animated series. This should be enough for seven new seasons, at the rate of 10 issues per season.
Season 4 of Rick and Morty will continue to tell about the adventures of an ordinary schoolboy Morty and his unusual grandfather Rick, who is engaged in informal scientific research associated with travel between space and time.
AT match Russia - Latvia The undisputed leader is, of course, the Russian team. However, an easy walk for our hockey players in this World Cup game is not to be expected. The opponent is well acquainted with the game of the Russians, many players of the Latvian national team play KHL clubs, and the Latvian team itself has been consistently demonstrating a strong game in recent years.
The meeting of the hockey teams of Russia and Latvia will begin on May 18, 2019 at 13:15 Moscow time. AT live the game will be shown on television channel "Match!". TV broadcast start time - 13:05 Moscow time.
What time and on which channel to watch hockey Russia - Latvia:
* May 18, 2019 at 13:15 Moscow time.
* On the TV channel "Match!".
During the day we watch hockey, and in the evening -. And in fact, and in another case, we are rooting for ours!
On August 6, the long-awaited Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. Remember how much there was news that we might not be allowed to them because of a fight with the British and a scandal with doping. And despite the fact that at the beginning we had doubts about participation, now we have 12 gold medals and we can easily overtake Great Britain, which we still have 3 gold medals to go. The Americans are doing well, they now have the largest amount of gold, and we are unlikely to have time to overtake them in the next 5 days. But we wish good luck to our athletes who are fighting for the honor of our great country!
When will the Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro end?
As I said, there are 5 days left until the end of the Olympic Games, and now it's the 17th. Therefore, they will end on August 21, 2016. According to approximate forecasts, the Americans and the Chinese will win the Olympics, but for the third place there will be a struggle between the British and Russia. Both teams are very strong, so do accurate forecasts almost impossible in the end. It remains only to watch and cheer for our country, because for the third place we will be more respected by other countries.
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From February starts a grandiose sports event- Winter Olympic Games - 2019. One of the most anticipated events of the year is the Pyeongchang Olympics. A million audience from all over the world will watch the broadcast of the games, watching the opposition of the best representatives modern sports. About 2,500 athletes from 90 countries will take part in the games. Approximately 120 sets of awards will be played during the Olympiad. Spectators, first of all, are interested in when the 2019 Olympics will begin. We will talk about this in more detail below.
How the capital of the competition was chosen
For the right to host a large-scale sports event a serious struggle unfolded between several countries. First of all, the French city of Annecy claimed. But this application was quickly rejected, as France became the host of the Olympics too often. The city authorities did not pay due attention to the final ceremony of choosing the venue for the competition. As a result, Annecy's chances of winning quickly melted away.
Another great venue for the Olympics could be the city of Munich. However, the Olympic Committee in Germany recently hosted the main sporting event of recent years.
IOC members chose Pyeongchang for the following reasons. Firstly, the city was well suited to popularize winter views sports in the regions of Asia, and secondly, for the third time the South Korean town tried to become the center of the Olympic Games. AT last time he lost by a small margin to the city of Sochi. In addition, in Pyeongchang they pay special attention to sports, build sports infrastructure facilities and do not lose hope of holding competitions. After analyzing these facts, the members of the Olympic Committee decided this time to give the right to the South Korean city to host the 2018 Winter Olympics. Soon the winner was officially announced, which brought great joy to the Korean delegation.
Having become the winner, Pyeongchang began to intensively prepare for the Olympic Games. From the very beginning, the opening ceremony was planned to be held in Hwenge Park, which can accommodate about 75,000 spectators. The competitions themselves will be held at the Alpenzia ski center, at the Yenpyong ski base and many other Olympic venues. The entire infrastructure was built in a short time.
Competitions, participating countries, sports
A total of 84 countries will defend their honor at the 2019 Winter Olympics. Among the participating countries there will be newcomers - these are Kosovo and Eritrea. By the way, in December last year it became known that the DPRK refused to take part in competitions in Korea. However, before the New Year, the North Korean ruler said that perhaps this decision would be canceled and the North Korean delegation would arrive at the venue of the competition.
The Winter Olympic Games will include competitions in 15 sports and 102 disciplines. The members of the Olympic Committee made some changes. Now the participants of the games will be able to prove themselves in new disciplines:
- Big air in snowboarding.
- Double-mix in Kerning.
The discipline that was excluded from the competition was the women's and men's parallel slalom in snowboarding.
Interesting facts about the Olympics, start date
The start date for the Olympics in Korea is February 9, 2019. The upcoming event has already acquired a scandalous tone, because there is a clear admixture of politics. The IOC began to apply discriminatory measures against Russian athletes. The end of the 2019 Olympics will be held on February 25 with the closing ceremony.
The beginning and end of the Olympics should be large-scale spectacular events. The financial aspect required South Korea to invest about 9 billion dollars.
This is the first time that Olympic medals will have such a significant size. The gold award will have 586 grams.
The mascots of the competition will be an Asian black bear, which represents courage and willpower, as well as a white tiger, a traditional Korean symbol of trust and protection.
The Olympic torch will be 700mm high. It will be white with decorative elements. The relic will resemble the ancient porcelain that Korea was famous for.
Ignition Olympic flame took place in Greece on 24 October. 100 days before the start date of the Games, South Korea hosted the Olympic torch relay, which captured 17 cities, more than 7.5 thousand torchbearers took part in it.
The situation with Russia at the 2019 Olympics
In early December 2017, the Olympic Committee announced a pretty decision. The report spoke about the non-admission of the national team. However, athletes will still be able to participate in the Olympics. But everything will happen on an individual basis. Participants from the Russian Federation will be called " Olympic athletes From Russia". Also, the medical and coaching staff, which was affected by the doping scandal, will not be able to go to the games.
The government of the Russian Federation will not interfere with the trip of athletes to South Korea. Putin tries to support all Russian participants. The president even asked for forgiveness for the fact that the politicians could not fully protect the national team from attacks.
Initially, the country's honor was to be represented by 500 athletes. Soon the number was reduced to 389 participants, and in the end only 169 athletes were admitted.
It became clear to everyone that politics had intervened in sport competitions. The International Olympic Committee met several times for meetings, but each time removed the fighters from the Russian Federation.
In addition, it became clear that a condition was put forward that the representatives of the state should speak not under their national flag, but under the emblem and symbols. This circumstance forced some athletes to declare a boycott and refuse to participate in the opening ceremony of the main sporting event.
Olympics in South Korea, the latest reports on the participation of the Russian Federation
The media now and then publish current news about the course of the Olympics in the South Korean town. They concern, first of all, participation. Expert delegations are already counting the number of medals that are irretrievably lost. Skating, biathlon, and ski race This is where the most loss occurs. There would have been much more medals in these sports if part of the Russian team had not been suspended from participating in competitions.
Analysts note that the strongest athlete Denis Yuskov will also not go to the Olympics. About ten years ago, Yuskov was caught in a doping scandal, but later he was acquitted. Despite the acquittal, representatives Olympic Committee Russians were not allowed to winter Games. And the skater Ekaterina Shikhova, for example, never got caught doping, but she was also banned from participating.
Cross-country skiing was deprived of 8 Russian athletes, they could not be replaced by understudies. The main hope here was on Sergei Ustyugov, who was supposed to make a significant contribution to obtaining medals.
Only 4 athletes remained in biathlon, instead of 11. The main favorites were excluded. Relay competitions will be impossible due to the lack of the proper number of players.
In all this sad situation, it can be noted that there are disciplines in which Russians can show themselves very worthy - this men's hockey and figure skating. Here Russia is one of the favorites.
In figure skating, all hope is placed on world champion Evgenia Medvedev and Alina Zagitova. The latter adequately represented the country at the last European Championship.
Sports analysts agree that at the end of the 2019 Olympics, the Russian Federation will have about 10 medals. There will be no more than 2 or 3 gold medals, as the national team has been significantly shortened.
About the victory in ski jumping and Nordic combined you can forget. The level of training of our athletes here is quite low. It will also be difficult to qualify for medals in biathlon, but in skiing it will be possible to count on something, as the remaining athletes won the leading championships. Experts also note that the Russian delegation will have to face endless pressure and doping tests in South Korea.