Athletes in Sochi will compete on Sunday for five sets of medals

On Sunday in Sochi, on the ninth medal day of the Olympic Games, five sets of awards will be played. Athletes will compete for medals in the biathlon mass start (men), in the ski superhigant (men), in a ski relay of 4 each 10 km (men), in snowboarding (women), as well as in skate sports at a distance of 1,500 meters (women).

Kerlingists will open a competitive day. In the next matches of the female and men's teams of Russia in Kerling, opponents from Sweden will resist. Men who have already lost the chances of access to the playoffs will begin the game at 9:00, and the girls who continue the struggle to get to the next round at 14:00.

Also on Sunday at 16:30 there will be the last match of the Russian hockey players at the group stage of the Olympic tournament in Sochi. The squad of Zinetulla Bilyaletdinov will resist the team of Slovakia. To enter the quarter -finals from second place in a group without an additional match, it is necessary to either defeat Slovaks with a difference of more than five goals, or wait for the evening game between the teams of Canada and Finland in group V. If it ends in the victory of one of the teams in the main time, it is the Russian team who receives the fourth number of sowing based on the results of the group round. Our team can even take first place, but this will happen only in case of US defeat in a match with Slovenia.

The Russian women's hockey team will have a match with Japan in the tournament for 5-8 places at 21:00. In the group round, the Russians won them with a score of 2: 1.

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The first medals of Sunday in Sochi will be played by skiers at 10:00. In Slalom-Supergigant, men are the main contenders for victory here are the Norwegian Axel Lund Svindal, American Bode Miller and Austrian Matthias Mayer. Russian Glebov, Stepan Zuev and Pavel Trikhichev will represent Russia in this competition.

At 13:15, the final will begin in the snowboarding competitions on the snowboard-cross. The main favorites are Lindsay Jacobellis from the USA and Canadian Mall Rickeke and Dominic Malte. Czech Eva Samkova will also compete for gold. Russian girls do not act in this form.

At 14:00, a men's ski relay race 4x10 kilometers starts. In this type of program, the Russian team can really count on medals. Its composition will run by Alexander Perevkov, Dmitry Yaparov, Maxim Vyglezhanin and Alexander the Immortals.

In 18:00 skating sports will begin at a distance of 1,500 m for women. It is unlikely that anyone will compete with the Dutch Irene Wyst, the Vancouver Olympic champion in this form, which has already won the “gold” in Sochi at 5000 meters and “silver” - by a thousand, ITAR -TASS notes. In case of victory, Wyust will repeat the achievement of the famous Soviet skating of Lydia Skoblikova, who twice won a distance of 1,500 meters at the Olympiads.

The Wiust will be competition by American Brittani Bow and Heather Richardson, as well as Russian Julia Skokova, who took the seventh and eighth places in the last two championships of the world and became the second at the stage of the 2013/14 World Cup in Astana. In addition to Skokova, Ekaterina Lobysheva, Ekaterina Shikhova and Olga Fatkulina will start to start. For Fatkulina, a silver medalist in Sochi at a distance of 500 m, a discipline of 1500 m is not profile. Whereas Lobyshev and Shikhov at one time took the fourth and fifth places here at the world championships.

At 19:00, after a short break, Biathlon returns to the forefront - 15 km by a male race from the mass start. In this form, Yevgeny Ustyugs won four years ago in Vancouver, but it will be extremely difficult for him to repeat his success. The main favorites are already two-time Olympic champion of Sochi Marten Fourcade from France and the winner of the sprint race Norwegian Ule-Einar Bjornalen.

Evgeny Garanichev will begin the race under the 8th number, Anton Shipulin-under the 13th, Evgeny Ustyugov-under the 14th, and Dmitry Malyshko-under the 15th. Not a single team except the Russian will be represented in the race more than three biathlonists.

In figure skating, the time has come to the competition of dance duets. At 19:00 they will present short programs. The Russians have excellent chances of high places. Three pairs are involved in Russia: Ekaterina Bobrova/Dmitry Soloviev, Elena Ilyini/Nikita Katsalapov, Victoria Sinitsina/Ruslan Zhiganshin. The first two Russian couples in Sochi have already won gold medals in a team tournament.

In the evening program of Sunday - the first two attempts by Bobsleists in the competition of male doubles. The crews of the Znamenosets of the Russian national team Alexander Zubkov (with the dispersing Alexei Voevoda) and Alexander Kasyanov (with Maxim Belugin) will be released to the start. The first race will begin at 20.15 Moscow time, and the second at 21.50.