In the recent history of our performances at the Olympic Games, there were cases when competitions had already begun a long time ago, but there were still no medals and there were no.

Somewhere not very lucky, somewhere quite a bit.

The Beijing Games are a new and much happier story.

From the very first medal day, Russian athletes began to please us with an excellent performance.

It all started with the silver of the strongest Russian skier Natalya Nepryaeva in the skiathlon.

Given the completely inhuman performance of the Norwegian Teresa Johaug, getting around all the other competitors on the track is an excellent result!

The mixed relay in biathlon brought us bronze.

Considering everything that has happened to our teams in recent years, this is an excellent result.

The skiathlon for men brought the main victory so far - I mean the set of emotions that we received the last 10 km of the distance.

Alexander Bolshunov started with a fall, and then simply trampled all the other competitors.

Absolutely insane breakaway, joy at the last kilometer, finish with a flag in hand - fantastic!

Well, next to the finish line - and again with a huge margin from the Finnish skier - our Denis Spitsov arrived.

There was a double that shocked the entire Norwegian team.

By the way, Johannes Klebo suffocated in the first third of the distance.

But he has already become the Olympic champion in the sprint, which Sasha Bolshunov prudently refused.

The bronze medal of Nastya Smirnova in Mogul added to the joy.

The next day, gold - and again very convincingly - was won by our team of figure skaters.

For the first time since 1968, our mixed team of ski jumpers received a medal - and immediately a silver one.

It's funny and sad, but half of the favorites of the Games were mowed down by the judges for the inconsistency of the costumes with the regulations.

However, the most beautiful jumps and high marks cannot be taken away from our guys.

Vic Wild, a snowboarder and a man of very difficult sporting fate, put a glorious end to his career by taking bronze in the parallel giant slalom.

The luger Tanya Ivanova also won a bronze medal - but what a medal!

The first for our country in this form.

Well, in the ski sprint, the third place was won by the debutant of the Olympics Sasha Terentyev.

Then another glorious bronze happened.

This time in the short track, at a distance of 1500 m. Yes, Semyon Elistratov was separated from the silver by a photo finish, but if you remember that ten athletes participated in the final race at once, the result is simply excellent.

In total, at the moment we have 12 medals of various denominations!

And here is the time to talk about our figure skating team... The awarding of the team has not yet taken place, and if we remove all the conspiracy theories, the following details will remain: the IOC representative said that all the rumors about doping in the sample of Kamila Valieva are speculation.

Dot.

And what foreign "insiders" write is pure nonsense.

They have already started talking about drugs - what else can you comment on?

Looking forward to the end of this story.

And the scandal will not prevent Camila from tuning in to the competition.

I am sure that nothing will interfere with our victories in figure skating.

The point of view of the author may not coincide with the position of the editors.