Anton Bykov: The Olympiad through the eyes of a non -lane. The eleventh day

Anton Bykov

While Brazil proceeds to Kafe and Mania, that is, to breakfast, we summarize the results of 11 days of the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. For the Russian national team, this was not the best day. Synchronists Svetlana Romashin and Natalya Ishchenko took gold in a duet, becoming four -time Olympic champions, but this victory was predictable. A much more unexpected result was shown by the casket of Roman Anoshkin, who won the bronze medal. The 14th bronze of the Russian team was brought by the gymnast by David Belyavsky, and this was over with the medals. You can still be happy for the handball players who went to the semifinals of the tournament. The rest is the torn jump of the Olympic champion Ilya Zakharov, the departure from the tournament of the beach, the devastating defeat of volleyball players, and, finally, the cancellation of Beijing-2008 medals in athletics. Nevertheless, the psychological line of 10 gold awards has been passed, Russian athletes still demonstrate the best indicators, starting from the 2004 games in Athens.

Roman Anoshkin. Photo: Kanoephotography.com / Balint Vekassy (ICF)

To this, it is necessary to add the truncated composition of the national team and various minor troubles, which, of course, no one attributes obvious failures. For an athlete, there is only a maximum plan, but the minimum plan is fulfilled quite. According to the results of the competitive program of Tuesday, the Russian team retained the fourth line of unofficial command offset (38 medals: 12 gold - 12 silver - 14 bronze). The team of Germany with 11 gold medals literally steps on her heels. The US team is the leader (84: 28-28-28), the second place is occupied by the UK (50: 19-19-12), the third is China (51: 17-15-19).

1. Farewell, Beijing gold

The International Olympic Committee deprived the Russian national team of the Golden Medal of the 2008 Olympic Games in the relay of 4 at 100 meters due to the positive result of the doping tests of the Begunya Yulia Cherkshanskaya, who performed in this race. After a second test in its analyzes from the Games in Beijing, traces of two prohibited substances were found: stanosolol and dehydrochlormethyltestosterone (turinabol). In addition, Chermoshanskaya is deprived of eighth places in a race of 200 meters in an individual standings.

Julia Chergeshanskaya. Photo: dynamo.org.ru

In the near future, the Russian Olympic Committee (OCD) must return all the medals received by Russian athletes participating in the race. “There is a constant process of processing doping tests. I have not yet owned complete information, only recently it became known about this. Of course, this is regretted, ” R-Sport quotes the President of the OKR Alexander Zhukov.

In the relay, 4 to 100 meters for Russia in Beijing were Evgenia Polyakov, Alexander Fedorieva, Julia Gushchina and Julia Cherrmoshanskaya. They ran a distance in 42.31 seconds, showing the best result of the season. Silver prize -winners of the relay have been athletes from Belgium, the third came to the finish line of Nigeria, the fourth - Brazilian.

Earlier it was reported that the rechecking of the tests of the 2008 and 2012 Olympics revealed about 100 positive doping tests. After the end of the games in Rio, the third and fourth double -checks will be held, however, the IOC already applies sanctions to some athletes. Silver of OI-2012 was lost by the Ukrainian spearman Alexander Friday, convicted of doping.

Alexander Friday. Photo: Jon Connell

Stanozolol is an anabolic steroid that is very popular with bodybuilders. It does not significantly affect body weight, but burns fat and gives the muscles relief. Stanosolol also increases speed-power indicators, so it is very popular among athletes and is part of the so-called “ golden five ” of doping-drugs. Tourinacle is a universal drug. It has similar effects similar to stanosolol, but works more for the mass.

2. SINCE 2000

“Golden standards of quality”, “16 years without defeats” - such advertising slogans could well use Russian synchronous swimming schools. Yesterday, Natalya Ishchenko and Svetlana Romashchi confirmed the status of the best synchronists. In the final of the duet competitions, they scored 194.9910 points, leaving far behind all rivals. For Ishchenko and Romashina, this is the fourth Olympic gold separately and the second in a row in duets. For Russia - 12 gold medal at games in Rio.

In Rio de Janeiro Ishchenko and Romashin, two programs were brought: the technical “gypsy” and the arbitrary “mermaid”. In the final, they performed with the second program, which is considered more complicated.

Natalya Ishchenko and Svetlana Romashina. Photo: A. Golovanov and S. Kivrin / Olympic.ru

“Any program with us is joint creativity. We have long planned to put the "mermaids". We are called mermaids, and in the water we probably spend more time than on land. But it was difficult to portray with the help of mermaids with a tail. And the music was not easy to find. As a result, they put the program, and I think it was 100%successful, ”Ishchenko said after the finals.

On Friday, team swimming competitions will be held, so Ishchenko and Romashin have every chance to catch up with the most titled synchronist in Olympic history Anastasia Davydov, the owner of five gold medals.

Two bronze medals of the Russian team on Thursday were brought by the gymnast David Belyavsky, who showed the third result in the exercises on the bars, and Roman Anoshkin, who became the first Russian rower in 44 years, who won a single-linker for 1000 m.

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Daria Klina, the only representative of Russia in athletics, admitted to the competition of the Olympiad, was qualified. She made her best jump 6.64 meters, this is the eighth result. The final in the length of the length of women will be held on August 17.

Russian handball players went to the semifinals, defeating Angola's team with a score of 31-27. For access to the final, wards Evgenia Trefilov will compete with Norwegians. So far, the Russians have not suffered a single defeat in the tournament.

The volleyball players cannot boast of such results, in the quarter-finals they lost to Serbians with a score of 0-3. In the first party, the Russians lost 9:25, in the second - 22:25, in the third - 21:25.

Without awards, this time there were Russian jumpers, silver medalists of London Ilya Zakharov and Evgeny Kuznetsov. At first they became seventh in synchronous jumps, and yesterday Zakharov stumbled on a three -meter springboard and, after performing the acrobatic element, entered (or fell) into the water flat (0 points). Kuznetsov took fourth place.

Beachs Konstantin Semenov and Vyacheslav Krasilnikov also dropped out of the tournament, in the semifinals, losing to Italians Daniele Lupo and Paolo Nikolai - 2: 1.

3. What is the Olympic spirit

New Zealandka Nikki Hamblin and American Abby d'Aggstino yesterday demonstrated what sports nobility, mutual assistance and a real Olympic spirit. Four circles before the end of the semi -final race of five thousand meters, Hamblin, being in the dense environment of the rivals, stumbled and fell face forward. The American who ran after, did not have time to dodge and fell nearby.

D'Aggstino rose first, but instead of continuing the race, she helped to rise New Zeland. Both, limping a little, began to run, but the American immediately turned her right leg and fell on the path again. Khamblin could not leave her rival. After the finish, the girls hugged, Abby was taken away from the arena in a wheelchair, but it turned out that her injury was not serious. The judges, like us, were touched by the act of athletes and decided to allow both before the final.

“When I fell, I thought:“ What happened? Why am I on Earth? ”Says Khamblin after the race. - And suddenly I felt my hand on my shoulder, such as “Get up, get up, we must finish!” I am so grateful to Abby for doing this for me. This girl is the embodiment of the Olympic spirit here. ”

Later, speaking on New Zealand radio, Khamblin admitted that it was a very unexpected manifestation of kindness: “When I think about Rio, I will not remember what I finished, I will not remember how I spent time ... But I will always remember this moment.”

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Besides:

• Ukraine won the first gold in Rio. Gymnast Oleg Vernyaev became the best on the bars. In total, the Ukrainian team has six medals.

• Weavyings from Russia, Kazakhstan and Belarus, due to doping, will be disqualified one year after games in Rio. According to the President of the International Athletics Federation Tamash Ayan, this decision will be announced in late September or early October. It is possible that other countries are disqualified.

• Sensation. The Brazilian Football Football team, the operating Olympic champions, flew out of the tournament, in the quarter -finals, losing to Chinese women with a score of 2: 3.

Today, August 17, 16 sets of awards in nine sports will be played in Rio: Badminton, boxing, freestyle wrestling, equestrian sport, athletics, table tennis, sailing, beach volleyball and taekwondo. Tomorrow we will summarize the 12 days of the Olympic Games, but for now, follow the news on Polit.ru and read the comments of our experts.

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