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Сообщение от FAIv

this hysteria about the medals, shame on the whole world

And what a tantrum?
Everything is understood.

Where we do not

Long before the Games in Vancouver, Russia lost the right to claim medals in nine disciplines of the existing 86. Namely, snowboarding: halfpipe - 2 sets (men and women), Bordeaux-cross - 1 (female); Nordic Combined: Relay - 1; Curling: Men's team - 1; freestyle: ski-cross - 1 (male), acrobatics - 2 (women), short track: Relay - 2 (men and women). Why did this happen, we asked at the main Olympic officials and representatives of the relevant sports federations.

ROC President Leonid Tyagachev:

- We do not qualify in these sports. You can, of course, to judge, discuss, criticize. Time will tell ... Sports Minister Vitaly Mutko, for example, stated that they are not our traditional disciplines, and they do not even need to take into account, and, perhaps, did not develop, but the emphasis is on our "family" type: figure skating ice hockey, biathlon, skiing. But I think in the future we will still fight for the medals and you mentioned disciplines.

Press Attache Federation skiing and snowboarding Russia Peter Parhitko:

- Yes, unfortunately, we are not represented in snowboarding - halfpipe for men, as well as the halfpipe and board-cross females. Our athletes do not receive admission to the Games in Vancouver in these disciplines. The team approved: Catherine Tudegesheva, Catherine Ilyukhina, Alain Zavarzin, Svetlana Boldykova, Andrew Boldykov and Stanislav baby. But athletes are not gods, so they can make mistakes. I hope that at the next Olympics, we all will be presented in full.
http://www.novayagazeta.ru/data/2010/016/30.html

And they need money for these winter sports great.
This is good summer run. Ababa Ethiopian Bekila barefoot all the gold in the marathon, won in Rome in 1960 year.

The paradox is that at the Winter Olympics, our chances in the last time is always worse than the summer. The coldest and most snow country is far from being a leader in winter sports. Because winter sports, in general, coarsening, where technologically summer. To descend from the mountains, need modern route. To succeed in a sleigh and bobsleigh, too, want the route, as well as themselves sleigh and beans. And this is not the sled on which you ride on weekends with children. Decent bean stands as a very decent foreign car. Looking for trampolines for "Flying Skier", we need covered rollers for skaters. Canadians three years inventing a special alloy for the blades to their Olympic skates glided better than competitors. If German biathletes only rifle costs 15 thousand dollars - Do you think is cheap it is all her training? Money for sport in Russia spend no longer small. Ambitions prohibitive. But technology is not. Specialists little. Foreign coaches in our winter sports more frequently than in summer. And thank God, because their coaches to take yet nowhere.
http://www.ej.ru/?a=note&id=9886

And much Russian house in Vancouver, as always buzzing around the clock.
Return only those who did not go and officials and deputies, and the artists ...