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Russia's Squandered Olympic Gold
At the time of this writing, Russia was in seventh place in the Sochi Olympics medal standings with a single gold, won in the team figure skating competition. It could have been in second after Norway and ahead of Canada if three freshly-minted Olympic champions had not chosen to compete for other countries.
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At the time of writing, Russia was in seventh place in the Sochi Olympics medal standings with a single gold, won in the team figure skating competition. It might have been second after Norway and ahead of Canada, if three freshly-minted Olympic champions hadn't chosen to compete for other countries.
They are Iouri "iPod" Podladtchikov, who won the snowboard halfpipe competition for Switzerland; Anastasiya Kuzmina, who gave Slovakia its second-ever Winter Olympics gold by winning the women's biathlon sprint race (she also won Slovakia's first gold, in Vancouver, four years ago); and Darya Domracheva, winner of the women's biathlon 10-kilometer pursuit for Belarus.