Russian athlete Margarita Mamun became the Olympic champion of the 2016 Games in the individual all-around. Second place also went to the representative of Russia - Yana Kudryavtseva. The third was an athlete from Ukraine - Anna Rizatdinova. Yana Kudryavtseva performed most of the exercises better than Margarita Mamun, but dropped her mace, which did not allow her to become the first in the overall standings.

Russian Abdulrashid Sadulaev won the final of the Olympic tournament in freestyle wrestling in the weight category up to 86 kilograms of Turk Selim Yashar and won the gold of the 2016 Games. For the Russian team, it was the 15th in the tournament and the 50th medal in general. The duel between Sadulayev and Yashar ended with the score 5:0.

Photo: Dmitry Lovetsky / AP / Scanpix / Leta Russian Margarita Mamun on August 20 won Olympic gold in personal all -around.

The Russian women's handball team beat France in the final of the Olympic tournament and won gold medals. Previously, handball players from Russia have never won the Olympics. The match ended with the score 22:19. The Russians led most of the match. Thus, the first half ended with a score of 10:7 in favor of the team led by Evgeny Trefilov. Anna Vyakhireva became the top scorer of the match in the Russian national team - she scored five goals.

Russian athlete Inna Trazhukova, who competes in freestyle wrestling, said she was not going to tolerate "bestial attitude" from the head of the Russian Wrestling Federation, Mikhail Mamiashvili. Trazhukova claims that Mamiashvili, after she lost the fight for third place at the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, got nasty and hit her twice in the face. The athlete promised to contact the prosecutor's office upon arrival in Russia.

Russian shot putter Evgenia Kolodko was stripped of her silver medal at the 2012 London Olympics. This decision was made by the International Olympic Committee after rechecking Kolodko’s doping test. It turned out that it contained prohibited drugs - turinabol and ipamorelin. The second place at the 2012 Games in the women's shot put will now be taken by Chinese athlete Li Ling, and third place will be taken by another representative of China, Gong Lijiao.

Russian athlete Alexander Lesun won the Olympic competition in modern pentathlon. The second was the Ukrainian Pavel Timoshenko, the third was the Mexican Ismael Marcelo Hernandez Uscanga. In total, Lesun scored 1,479 points, seven points ahead of Tymoshenko. In swimming, they showed the same result; Timoshenko was better in show jumping, running and shooting, but much worse in fencing - and therefore, in the end, he lost the gold to the Russian.

But on Twitter immediately after the transfer, in the "About Me" section, he began to list the name of another English club - "Burnley". Of course, many Britons noticed this and began to joke that Benteke simply forgot which team he moved to. Bookmaker Paddy Power joked that Burnley fans would be overjoyed at the signing of Christian Benteke. The fake Barnley account jokingly wrote that Christian Benteke had indeed moved to this club. Christian Benteke later tweeted an apology.

How Russians for the first time in history won the Olympics The Russian Gandball Women's team reached the final of the Olympics and will play in it with the France team. Gandbol is not the most popular sport, but they play with such a passion that they do not love this sport, looking at their performance, is quite difficult. "Medusa" fell in love! And it will follow the final of the 2016 games in the online mode. ALL! VICTORY!

Pole Piotr Malakhovsky, an Olympic silver medalist in discus throw, put his medal up for auction to help a child with cancer. On Facebook, he said that shortly after the competition, the mother of a three-year-old boy who had a malignant retinal tumor turned to him for help. As it turned out , about 120 thousand dollars are needed for treatment, and a third of the amount has already been collected. Malakhovskiy decided to help and put the medal up for auction.

How will professional sport change in the near future? Photo: Gabe Palmer / Alamy / Vida Press During the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, a video was incredibly popular in social networks, which compares the performances of gymnasts at the games of 1960 and 2016. The difference in the complexity of the elements, speed and visual lightness of their performance turned out to be so huge that it is impossible to believe that this is the same sport.

Novaya Gazeta journalist Yulia Latynina said she was doused with feces. This is reported by Ekho Moskvy, where she hosts the Access Code program. The attack took place not far from the editorial office of Ekho, which is located on Novy Arbat in Moscow. According to Latynina, there were two attackers. One, wearing a motorcycle helmet, attacked her, while the second was waiting for an accomplice on a motorcycle at a distance.

Komsomolskaya Pravda journalist Roman Golovanov apologized to the new Minister of Education, Olga Vasilyeva, for misrepresenting her words. On August 19, in an interview , Olga Vasilyeva, answering a question from a KP employee about what emotions she experiences in connection with the appointment, allegedly said: “In relation to emotions, deification, if you understand.

Synchronized swimmers Natalya Ishchenko and Svetlana Romashina, who won two gold medals each, will carry the Russian flag at the closing of the Olympic Games in Rio. The closing ceremony of the Games will take place on 21 August. In Russia, this is the night of the 22nd. In Rio, Natalia Ishchenko and Svetlana Romashina first won the duet competition. And then they won gold medals as part of the group. Volleyball player Sergei Tetyukhin carried the Russian flag at the opening ceremony.

In the United States, 30-year-old Sean Miller, a suspected heroin dealer, disguised himself as an old man to avoid arrest. When the police arrived at the house where the suspect lived, a man in years came out to them. However, the police figured out that it was Sean Miller in disguise and make-up. They ransacked his home and found a weapon in a laundry basket and $30,000 in cash. Sean Miller was put on the wanted list in April 2016. He lived in Massachusetts.