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A ski marathon and the ice hockey finals...
American (Canada and the U.S.), European (Germany, Norway, Switzerland, Sweden, Austria and the Netherlands) and Asian (South Korea and China) national teams. Canada has nearly five times more gold medals than Russia, the United States and Norway have three times more gold medals, while Germany has twice as many gold, silver and bronze medals as Russia.Why? What have the Russian athletes done wrong? Sports officials, fearing that they would be fired, say there is nothing to worry about, that the Vancouver games were only a warm-up ahead of the Sochi Olympics. They also blame our losses on bad weather, ski wax and unsatisfactory meals, hard snow, managerial problems, a biased attitude of judges and doping control officers, and lack of experience. Outrageously, they say that the Russian team has won quite a few fourth places, which "is very close to medals."
But analysts will certainly reject all of these far-fetched reasons because all the other national teams had
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