Russia won the team of skaters in Sochi ahead of schedule

The Russian team in figure skating ahead of schedule secured a victory in the team Olympic tournament. This happened due to the fact that the Canadian skater Kaitlin Osmond failed the performance in the arbitrary program. Thus, the Canadian team lost theoretical chances of getting ahead of the general standings of the leading Russian team.

The rivals was used by the Russian participant of the female arbitrary program, Julia Lipnitskaya. The 15-year-old skater perfectly rolled her program and took first place, gaining 141.51 points.

The second place went to the American Gracie Gold (129.38), the third result was shown by the Italian Valentina Marki (112.51).

Lipnitskaya at the age of 15 and 249 days became the youngest champion in the history of the Winter Olympic Games. The previous record belonged to the American skater Tara Lipinsky, who became a champion in women's single skating at the Olympics in Nagano in 1998. Lipinski was 15 years 255 days, RIA Novosti clarifies.

Russian President Vladimir Putin Stri welcomed the domestic skater Julia Lipnitskaya after her performance at the Olympics, as ITAR-TASS reports. The performance of a 15 -year -old athlete is the first thing that the head of state saw from the competitions. On Sunday evening, he arrived at the iceberg ice palace to cheer on the Russian skaters.

On Saturday, Lipnitskaya excited in a short program. The performance of a young Russian woman literally stunned fans of figure skating around the world. One of the most popular publications on this topic is posted on the BuzzFeed.com website. The author calls the Russian woman’s skating “incredible and impeccable” and gives an animated image, where the rotation from the short Lipnitskaya program is captured.

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On Sunday, Russian athletes won the first medals of the Olympiad. The first - bronze - received Olga Count's skating , running 3000 meters with a personal record. The second - silver - earned an impeccable shooting biathlete Olga Vilukhina . Another medal was brought by Russia by Albert Demchenko - the veteran of the game took silver in single sleigh.

In the final form, dance couples performed by the team skating tournament. The first place in an arbitrary dance was taken by the Americans Mril Davis and Charlie White, gaining 114.34 points. Canadians Tessa Vertya and Scott Moir became the second (107.56), providing their team with silver. The third place was taken by the Russian couple as part of Elena Ilyin and Nikita Katsalapova (103.48).

Earlier on Sunday, Evgeny Plushenko won the arbitrary program of the team -skating team. The judges gave the first place to a Russian who scored 168.2 points.

The second place was taken by Kevin Reynolds from Canada, who scored 167.92 points. The third result was shown by the Japanese Tatsuki Matida - 165.85.

Note that only on Sunday Canada and Japan announced the replacement of performers in an arbitrary program. Initially, Plushenko’s rivals were supposed to be a three -time world champion in figure skating by Canadian Patrick Chan and Japanese Yuzuru Khany.

In the overall standings of the team tournament, Russia took the first place by the skaters, gaining 75 points. In second place is the Canadian team (65). The third position was taken by US skaters (60).

Thus, ten skaters immediately became the Russian team at once: Tatyana Volosozhar/Maxim Trankov, Ksenia Stolbova/Fedor Klimov, Ekaterina Bobrova/Dmitry Solovyev, Elena Ilyini/Nikita Katsalapov, Evgeny Plushenko and Yulia Lipnitskaya.

Cohesion led to victory

The 2014 Olympics champions in Sochi for figure skating in the team tournament believe that it was their cohesion that made it possible to win gold, Interfax reports.

“We are such a close -knit team, we have proved that we can conquer gold by rallying one large strong team,” said skater Dmitry Solovyov at a press conference in Sochi on Sunday. He noted that in the team of Russian skaters, "everyone is so different, everyone has a big difference in age and everyone is in different ways."

In turn, the skater Ekaterina Bobrova said: "This is dizzying, because we have such athletes gathered and it is very honorable that we also perform in this team." “Starting with Zhenya (Plushchenko), who passed so many Olympiads and took a prize in each, and so experienced, just a genius of his business. Ending with our Yulenka (Lipnitskaya), which at the age of 15 is also a small genius, in a different way. It is wonderful to be in such a team that it showed that it worthy of Olympic gold,” Bobrov emphasized.

Putin is still satisfied

Russian President Vladimir Putin is still pleased with how the Winter Olympic Games in Sochi are held, and critics advises to come here and make their own opinion, ITAR-TASS reports.

“Maybe there are any questions, problems, but, as I understand it, everything goes well, and it pleases me,” Putin said in an interview with Austrian journalists during a visit to the Tyrool house in Krasnaya Polyana.

Answering the question whether he is satisfied with the first two days, the head of state said: "We will see what will happen next."

The correspondent asked what he could answer to critics. “Let them come and see everything for themselves,” the president said. “I just drove here to my friends, representatives of the Austrian delegation, to find out if they have any questions, problems, maybe they need to adjust something, correct something, but judging by what I heard, everyone is happy, while there are no comments,” Putin added.

One of the representatives of the Austrian delegation confirmed: "Much better than everyone said."

“This is only the very beginning, and I hope that it will be farther,” Putin reacted.

Answering the question of what Russia wants to show the world by the Olympics, the head of state noted: "We do not just want to show something to the world, we want to create favorable conditions for athletes so that they enjoy our admirers, sports fans around the world."

“This is our task as the owners, but, of course, we expect that by doing all this, people around the world will be able to appreciate this, they will tell us at least thank you for trying to arrange a holiday for them,” he added.