Russia Sports News:

Russian athletes are taking part in practically all competitions at the London Olympics, except football and field hockey. The national team comprises 436 athletes from 59 regions of Russia.

Russia plans to enter the top three teams. Its aim is to win 23-25 gold medals. The team`s favorites are expected to perform at their best. The president of the Russian Olympic Committee Alexander Zhukov comments:

"Of course, we have leaders, all our hopes rest on them. They are the synchronized swim duo of Natalia Ischenko and Svetlana Romashina, who have grabbed nearly all medals in the latest competitions; gymnast Yevgeniya Kanayeva, tennis player Maria Sharapova, pole vaulter Yelena Isinbayeva."

The Russian female team is worthy of special praise. Female volleyball players are the tallest among all others taking part in the Olympics with the average height being 190 cm. All the rest female volleyball players are no taller than 186 cm. Only three girls have the height of more than 2 meters: Yekaterina Gamova, Yulia Merkulova and Tayyiba Mumtaz Haneef-Park of the U.S.

A few days before the start of the Olympics the FOCUS ONLINE website named Russians the most beautiful athletes at the Olympics. Maria Sharapova is on the list. She is carrying the Russian flag during the Olympic opening ceremony in Stratford tonight.

For the first time since the 1980 Olympics in Moscow Russia will be providing its own coverage of the Games, which will be a kind of a rehearsal before the 2014 Winter Games in Sochi. This coverage will first of all meet national interests, says the Director General for the Sports Broadcasting company Vasily Kiknadze…

"The Olympic Broadcasting Services, the host broadcasting organization for the Games of the London Olympiad, airs all competitions. But they do it using the so-called international signal to reach any country. They certainly name the leaders and show landmark events, which do not, however, always meet our interests."

The test signal will be broadcast only during volleyball competitions to find out the best pattern to use during the Sochi Olympics in 2014, when all the events on the agenda will be covered.

Meanwhile, Londoners and tourists are welcome to visit the Russia.Sochi Park in Kensington Gardens, which opened on July 26 to offer an interactive trip all across Russia, during which one can see some Olympic objects in Sochi and take a 4D funicular to reach the mountain peaks. Experts say that the Russia.Sochi Park is the largest Russian project ever presented in Britain.

Arsen Galstyan wins Russia's first gold medal in Judo Men's 6Okg category.

You can follow Russia daily activity here...

http://www.london2012.com/country/russia/

Armenian Judoka, no big surprise there.

Putin's perosnal sport also.

Russian cyclist Olga Zabelinskaya won the bronze medal in the women’s road race.

Nikolay Kovalev (fencer) won also the bronze medal in the Sabre indivindual event.

Αnother bronze for Russia in Men's 4x100m freestyle relay.
Andrey Grechin
Nikita Lobintsev
Vladimir Morozov
Danila Izotov

Russia’s Mansur Isaev has grabbed Russia’s second Olympic gold overpowering Riki Nakaya (Japan) in the men's 73kg judo final.

http://english.ruvr.ru/2012_07_30/Mansur-Isaev-Russia-s-second-gold/

Ivan Nifontov won the bronze medal in men's judo 81 kgr category.

Svetlana Tsarukaeva grabbed Olympic silver in weightlifting at 63 kg with a 237-kilogram total.

Russia took the silver medal in gymnastics team competition today.

Russians Yevgeny Kuznetsov and Ilya Zakharov snatched silver in the men’s 3-m springboard event Wednesday.

Russian cyclist Olga Zabelinskaya has won her second medal at London 2012, coming third as a single in the road race.

Russia’s Sophia Velikaya won the silver medal in women's induvidual sabre fencing event.

Six medals - one gold, two silver and three bronze were won by Russian sportsmen on the sixth day of the Olympic Games.

Tagir Khaybulaev grabbed the Olympic judo gold in the men's 100kg event

The silver was won by Russian fencers (Inna Deriglazova, Larisa Korobeynikova, Aida Shanaeva, Kamilla Gafurzianova)in the womens team foil competition.

Viktoria Komova has claimed the silver in the individual gymnastics all-round. Bronze was also won by Alia Mustafina.

Vasily Mosin also won a bronze in the double-trap shooting event.

Yulia Efimova won bronze in the final heat of the 200 metres breast stroke.

Sharapova sets up Olympic semifinal with Kirilenko.
This means that Russia secured a place in the final and therefore at least a silver medal.

RIA, TASS

Viktoria Komova, Alia Mustafina


Tagir Khaybulaev

Meh

We are doing shite

flamming_python wrote:Meh

We are doing shite

Meh, I used to care about the Olympics.

What angers me is when people act all entitled to medals- WTF? 90% of viewers are doing so for nationalistic wankfests, not genuine interest in the sport, and certainly played zero role in their athletes getting to that level of competition. And then people act all outraged when the athletes don't perform at expected levels...

http://english.ruvr.ru/2012_08_04/Russias-weightlifter-Akkaev-withdraws-from-Olympics-due-to-back-injury/

Another lost gold medal, Akkaev withdraws from Olympics due to back injury. Shivenko also withdrew due to injury

TR1 wrote:

flamming_python wrote:Meh

We are doing shite

Meh, I used to care about the Olympics.

What angers me is when people act all entitled to medals- WTF? 90% of viewers are doing so for nationalistic wankfests, not genuine interest in the sport, and certainly played zero role in their athletes getting to that level of competition. And then people act all outraged when the athletes don't perform at expected levels...

Yeah I know exactly what you mean. You should have seen the nerd rage against the Russian national football team after they flopped out in this year's Euro Cup. I must have been the only guy that was 'well OK unlucky guys, better luck next time and all that'; everyone else was raging - what are we paying these fat, ugly good for nothings for, bla bla bla.

Russian Greco-Roman wrestler wins Olympic gold

ussian wrestler Roman Vlasov won this country’s fourth Olympic gold on Sunday with a 3-0 victory over Armenia’s Artsen Julfalakyan in the men’s 74 kilogram Greco-Roman wrestling event.

Hmm, well 3rd place in number of medals now.

If we take away that massive overinflated amount of swimming medals possible, would be damn close to the US

flamming_python wrote:

TR1 wrote:

flamming_python wrote:Meh

We are doing shite

Meh, I used to care about the Olympics.

What angers me is when people act all entitled to medals- WTF? 90% of viewers are doing so for nationalistic wankfests, not genuine interest in the sport, and certainly played zero role in their athletes getting to that level of competition. And then people act all outraged when the athletes don't perform at expected levels...

Yeah I know exactly what you mean. You should have seen the nerd rage against the Russian national football team after they flopped out in this year's Euro Cup. I must have been the only guy that was 'well OK unlucky guys, better luck next time and all that'; everyone else was raging - what are we paying these fat, ugly good for nothings for, bla bla bla.

I thought Russia looked terrific when they started the Euro Champships football. Maybe they didn't pace themselves enough and lacked a bit of the tactical side. But it looked a really entertaining team.

I've been a bit surprised with the Olympics. 1st I thought Russia would be getting more medals by this stage. And I'm also surprised that Britain got so many. Its definitely a case of target what events u can win and throw a lot of money at it.

I was born in Britain and have lived in England most of my life. But half of the British medals I dont even count as medals. Rowing and that horse nonsense medals are generally just upper class idiots who hardly have any rivals.
(Its all about the quality of the horse, not the rider anyway, in showjumping anyway). And to be honest, I cant really identify with the Africans and West Indians competing for Britain either. (which is probably illegal to say on an English forum... )

I'm always pleased to see Mother Russia doing well.I found myself watching the gymnastics in work this wk - the Russian girls are definitely the hottest! Which deserves a number of golds in its own right!

Host nation always does well since they usually have huge contingents compared to other events.

Firebird wrote:I've been a bit surprised with the Olympics. 1st I thought Russia would be getting more medals by this stage. And I'm also surprised that Britain got so many. Its definitely a case of target what events u can win and throw a lot of money at it.

I was born in Britain and have lived in England most of my life. But half of the British medals I dont even count as medals. Rowing and that horse nonsense medals are generally just upper class idiots who hardly have any rivals.
(Its all about the quality of the horse, not the rider anyway, in showjumping anyway). And to be honest, I cant really identify with the Africans and West Indians competing for Britain either. (which is probably illegal to say on an English forum... )

I'm always pleased to see Mother Russia doing well.I found myself watching the gymnastics in work this wk - the Russian girls are definitely the hottest! Which deserves a number of golds in its own right!

Well Britain was already 4th in Beijing, so it would be normal to achieve 3rd place at home. I think Russia goes bad because it has no appearance in swimming, rowing and cycling, these 3 count for 66 gold medals, about 22% of total gold medals.