A ski marathon and the ice hockey finals...
the same conditions but they still did better than the Russian athletes.There are many young talents and good coaches in Russia, but the authorities have not created proper conditions for the training of top athletes (who live abroad for years, training in ski sprint and jumps and bobsleigh, skeleton and biathlon races). Nor is there a system in place for training children and teenagers.
The trouble is that too much attention is given to, and too much money is spent on the "high achievement sports," including for political reasons. Sports authorities are expected to ensure medals and records, and nobody wants to know how they do it.
The training of the Russian national team for the Olympics allegedly cost $1 billion, which is considerably more than the countries that surged ahead of Russia in Vancouver spent on their teams. I wonder if all of them taken together (Germany, Norway, Switzerland, Sweden, Austria and the Netherlands), which have won 97 medals,
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