Posts from Summer Olympic Games, Beijing 2008.

The Chinese are really pushing the boundaries! It's incredible! They're getting faster and faster, even surpassing the Academy! Seriously!

Yeah... Russia has 4 silvers and 3 bronzes. If I'm not mistaken, we're in 8th place. Well, let's hope we can break through... But catching up to the Chinese with their 9 medals will be extremely difficult.

Actually, we're in 16th place:(

The Chinese are strong... But they can be defeated... We are strong in Athletics... They are not... We need to crush the Chinese in this area...

The Chinese have 10 gold medals, the Americans have 6, and we are in 16th place after Thailand (!). P.S. The only gold medal for Thailand was won by Mr. **Jaroenrattanatarakoon P.** Now that's what I call dedication!

For now, it seems that we have used up our luck quota for this year on football and hockey (and maybe something else). We will most likely not catch up with China, nor with the Americans, and even our 3rd place in the overall team standings is now in doubt.

Gentlemen, congratulations to US on winning the first gold medal!!!
"Nazir Mankiev won in the final of the Greco-Roman wrestling competition in the category up to 55 kilograms against Azerbaijani Rovshan Bayramov and brought the first gold medal to the Russian team at the Olympics in Beijing."

There is a second gold medal for Russia. This time, Islam-bek Albiyev became the Olympic champion in Greco-Roman wrestling.

I don't need to criticize our team anymore :), maybe tomorrow they'll even win gold.
Lazybones! Clumsy! Slackers! They can't do anything! :) Jerks! What a team to send to the Olympics! :) Send them all to a collective farm to harvest crops! :)

Russia has 2 gold, 4 silver, and 3 bronze medals. We are already in 6th place! Hooray, comrades! Let's continue to support our team; compared to the beginning of the day, this is great progress! I hope we can make it into the top three.

BotINKi, VDV_forever, Thanks =) We're trying =)
Unfortunately, I was in Belarus since the 8th, so I couldn't update the information every day =( I think I'll catch up tonight, at least briefly =). And then I'll try to provide all the details, at least for our team =)
Whirlwind, as of yesterday evening, Russia is in 8th place

Well, let's continue:

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General standings

Let's discuss, guys, the judging lately has been simply unfair, blatantly so.

Judging is always unfair. Whether it's Russians, Germans, or Dutch... In the end, everyone is on equal footing.

I haven't noticed anything like that at this Olympiad yet; perhaps there are some examples? Chinese judges? In general, there are plenty of judges there from different countries.

Well, after the Athens Olympics, the judges didn't seem to favor anyone in particular, at least I didn't notice it. As for the Chinese, their scores in gymnastics are always slightly inflated, but that's understandable, as they're competing at home. Nevertheless, the Chinese athletes absolutely deserve to win medals.

Well, there are 2 episodes from yesterday:

Ryabakov is sure that Timurziev could have continued the fight

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Vice-president of the Russian Boxing Federation, Viktor Ryabakov, is surprised by the referee's decision to stop the fight between Russian Islam Timurziev and Briton David Price and award the victory to the British giant.

- Islam was confidently leading the fight, - "Ves Sport" quotes Ryabakov. – He won the first round, and in the second, he took one strong hit. This was a knockdown, I don't argue with the referee. But the decision to stop the fight after the second hit by the Briton was wrong. There was no knockout, our boxer could have continued the fight.

Recall that Russian heavyweight boxer Islam Timurziev, who became the European champion and also won a bronze medal at the World Championship in Chicago, suffered an unexpected defeat to the British giant (height 203 cm) David Price.

The athletes started the first round with a reconnaissance. And only one managed to hit the opponent. Islam Timurziev did it. He hit with a "double," but only one hit landed.

At the beginning of the second round, Islam earned his second point. However, the Briton unexpectedly hit Islam with a "double," as a result of which the Russian ended up in a knockdown. Despite the fact that Timurziev immediately got up, the referee made a controversial decision to prematurely end the fight.

Timurziev, who competes in the weight category over 91 kg, was one of the main contenders for a medal at the Olympics.

I didn't watch it myself, so I can't say anything =(

Ayrapetyan was unfairly judged, Lebzyak believes

The head coach of the Russian boxing team, Alexander Lebzyak, is sure that the referee did not count several accurate hits by Russian David Ayrapetyan, who competes in the lightweight category and lost the match to Ukrainian Georgy Chigaev.

- I have no complaints about David, - "Ves Sport" quotes the coach. – I believe that he did not lose this fight. The referee did not count four or five accurate hits by our boxer. If such judging continues, then why box at all? It is very disappointing to "lose" like this, especially since David was perfectly prepared for these competitions. But he is only 25 years old – Olympic medals are ahead. The main thing is that he has a desire to work.

And I watched this fight... I don't know what kind of judges they were, Chinese or not, but, in my opinion, they really didn't count several points...

There was also something similar in women's fencing, with Sofia Velikaya simultaneously attacking an American, Rebecca. The Chinese judge kept awarding points to the American, resulting in an unfair and lucky victory for Rebecca. P.S. Ugh, you scoundrels, just wait until Sochi, then we'll remember this. :smile01: :smile01: :smile01: :rolleyes:

Added 2 minutes later

Well, after Athens, the judges haven't seemed to favor anyone so obviously, at least I haven't noticed. The Chinese, of course, always get slightly higher scores in gymnastics, but that's understandable, they're performing at home, but still, Chinese athletes absolutely deserve to win medals.

But not all Americans win fairly (practically for free).