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Post by Panda on May 16, 2020 0:07:56 GMT 1
Following on from the points table I did for the Rio Summer Olympics, I'm now doing one for the 2018 Winter Olympics that were held in Pyeongchang, South Korea. Again, I will be revealing the scores on a sport-by-sport basis, though there were only 15 in Pyeongchang, compared with 31 in Rio. The system awards points to the top 8 nations in each event, with 8 points for 1st, down to 1 point for 8th. Note that it is the top 8 nations, rather than top 8 athletes. That means only a team's highest placed athlete counts towards the table. That means if a country wins gold and silver in a particular event, they will just score the 8 points for 1st, and whichever nation finishes 2nd would receive 7 points and we keep going until we have the top 8 nations. In events where you have to go back through rounds to find the top 8, various tie-breaking methods will be used, depending on the nature of the event. Officially, there are only actually 7 sports in the Winter Olympics and the powers-that-be divide them into "disciplines". For example, figure skating and speed skating fall under the general "skating" umbrella and the same applies for skiing, which even includes ski jumping and snowboarding. So for the basis of this list, the 15 Winter Olympic sports are: Alpine Skiing Biathlon Bobsleigh Cross-Country Skiing Curling Figure Skating Freestyle Skiing Ice Hockey Luge Nordic Combined Short Track Speed Skating Skeleton Ski Jumping Snowboarding Speed Skating This list will no doubt look very different to the table for Rio, given the different superpowers in winter sports. But how different will it look to the medal table. Norway won the most medals in 2018, though Germany won the same number of golds. Great Britain was 19th with a record haul of 1 gold and 4 bronze medals. Will they improve on that position in the points table? We're about to find out. Top team per sport: ALPINE SKIING Switzerland BIATHLON Norway BOBSLEIGH Germany CROSS-COUNTRY SKIING Norway CURLING Canada FIGURE SKATING Canada FREESTYLE SKIING Canada ICE HOCKEY Olympic Athletes from Russia LUGE Germany NORDIC COMBINED Germany SHORT TRACK SPEED SKATING South Korea SKELETON Great Britain SKI JUMPING Norway SNOWBOARDING United States SPEED SKATING Netherlands
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Post by Panda on May 16, 2020 0:44:11 GMT 1
Sport 1 of 15: ALPINE SKIING (11 events) 1. Switzerland (2-3-2) 61 2. Austria (3-2-2) 60 2. Norway (1-4-2) 60 4. United States (1-1-1) 38 5. Italy (1-0-1) 37 6. France (0-1-2) 35 7. Germany 25 8. Sweden (2-0-0) 24 9. Canada 11 9. Liechtenstein (0-0-1) 11 9. Slovenia 11 12. Czech Republic (1-0-0) 8 13. Great Britain 7 14. Slovakia 6 15. Croatia 1 15. Olympic Athletes from Russia 1 Alpine skiing consists of 4 different types of race: Slalom, Giant Slalom, Super-G (short for Super Giant Slalom) and Downhill. The first two are considered technical events and the latter two speed events. Despite the long version of its name, Super G tends to be contested by downhill skiers. In addition to those, there is a combined event, in which competitors ski on downhill and slalom courses. 2018 also saw the debut of a mixed team event, in which 16 teams of 4 took part in a knockout competition, going head-to-head on a parallel slalom course over 4 races. There was barely anything to choose between the top 3, with Switzerland's gold in the mixed team event handing them top spot, even though Austria were top of the alpine skiing medal table. Liechtenstein's 11 points came from Tina Weirather, who finished 3rd and 4th in the women's Super-G and downhill. It was their first medal since 1988. Great Britain scored a useful 7 points in a sport, where we didn't have big expectations, even by our own Winter Olympic standards. Dave Ryding was 9th in the men's slalom but earned 4 points due to the top nations having multiple entrants (this is something that was repeated across the alpine skiing events). GB also reached the quarter-finals of the mixed team event after knocking out the USA in the last 16. Croatia are the first team onto the scoreboard that didn't win a medal at the Games. Russia was banned from this Winter Olympics due to the ongoing state-sponsored doping issue. However, 168 Russians were allowed to compete at the Games under the Olympic Flag as "Olympic Athletes from Russia".
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Post by Panda on May 16, 2020 15:52:19 GMT 1
Sport 2 of 15: BIATHLON (11 events) 1. Norway (1-3-2) 60 2. Germany (3-1-3) 57 3. France (3-0-2) 55 4. Sweden (2-2-0) 51 5. Italy (0-0-2) 30 6. Slovakia (1-2-0) 26 7. Belarus (1-1-0) 23 7. Czech Republic (0-1-1) 23 9. Austria (0-0-1) 21 10. Switzerland 19 11. Slovenia (0-1-0) 11 12. Poland 7 13. Finland 5 14. United States 3 15. Latvia 2 15. Ukraine 2 17. Lithuania 1 Overall top 20: 1. Norway 120 2. France 90 3. Germany 82 4. Austria 81 5. Switzerland 80 6. Sweden 85 7. Italy 67 8. United States 41 9. Slovakia 32 10. Czech Republic 31 11. Belarus 23 12. Slovenia 22 13. Canada 11 13. Liechtenstein 11 15. Great Britain 7 15. Poland 7 17. Finland 5 18. Latvia 2 18. Ukraine 2 20. Croatia 1 20. Lithuania 1 20. Olympic Athletes from Russia 1 Biathlon's origins lie with a Military Parade event that was staged at several early Winter Olympics. The old event combined cross-country skiing, ski mountaineering and rifle shooting. Eventually, the skiing and shooting elements were taken to create what would become the biathlon. Competitors race over a variety of distances, ranging from 7.5km to 20km, stopping to shoot at targets during the race. Time penalties are given for missed targets. There were 5 events for men and 5 for women, plus a mixed relay. Again, the medals were fairly spread out with no team dominating. Norway finished top of the points table despite only winning one gold medal as their biathletes were regularly among the top 5. Germany scored points in every event but that included several where they only scored a single point. GB's sole biathlon representative was Amanda Lightfoot but she finished 67th and 73rd in her two events.
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Post by Panda on May 16, 2020 18:03:01 GMT 1
Sport 3 of 15: BOBSLEIGH (3 events) 1. Germany (3-1-0) 24 2. Canada (1-0-1) 18 3. South Korea (0-1-0) 13 3. Switzerland 13 5. Latvia (0-0-1) 11 6. Austria 10 7. United States (0-1-0) 9 8. Great Britain 7 9. Belgium 2 9. France 2 Overall top 20: 1. Norway 120 2. Germany 106 3. Switzerland 93 4. France 92 5. Austria 91 6. Sweden 75 7. Italy 67 8. United States 50 9. Slovakia 32 10. Czech Republic 31 11. Canada 29 12. Belarus 23 13. Slovenia 22 14. Great Britain 14 15. Latvia 13 15. South Korea 13 17. Liechtenstein 11 18. Poland 7 19. Finland 5 20. Belgium 2 20. Ukraine 2 Number of teams with points: 24 There were 3 bobsleigh events: two-man, four-man and two-woman. In each event, there are 4 runs with the standings based on cumulative time across all runs. Germany won gold in every event though they shared 1st place with Canada in the two-man as they finished with the same. They also shared silver with South Korea in the four-man, though their main sled won gold. GB had a best showing of 9th by Mica McNeill and Mica Moore in the two-woman event but they were actually the 4th-best nation in that event, earning 5 points. Brad Hall and Joel Fearon picked up 2 points in the two-man bob after finishing 12th. Overall leaders Norway did not participate in bobsleigh in Pyeongchang.
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Post by Panda on May 16, 2020 19:13:25 GMT 1
Sport 4 of 15: CROSS-COUNTRY SKIING (12 events) 1. Norway (7-4-3) 88 2. Sweden (2-3-1) 64 3. Olympic Athletes from Russia (0-3-5) 59 4. Finland (1-1-2) 51 5. United States (1-0-0) 36 6. Switzerland (1-0-0) 32 7. France (0-0-2) 27 8. Canada 17 9. Italy (0-1-0) 13 10. Austria 9 11. Germany 8 11. Slovenia 8 13. Czech Republic 7 14. Great Britain 4 14. Japan 4 16. Poland 3 17. Estonia 1 17. Kazakhstan 1 Overall top 20: 1. Norway 208 2. Sweden 139 3. Switzerland 125 4. France 119 5. Germany 114 6. Austria 100 7. United States 86 8. Italy 80 9. Olympic Athletes from Russia 60 10. Finland 56 11. Canada 46 12. Czech Republic 38 13. Slovakia 32 14. Slovenia 30 15. Belarus 23 16. Great Britain 18 17. Latvia 13 17. South Korea 13 19. Liechtenstein 11 20. Poland 10 Number of teams with points: 27 Cross-country skiing features two different styles: classical, in which skiers move with a striding motion, and freestyle, in which the most common technique is a skating motion. Most events feature one or the other, but the skiathlon sees competitors use both styles during the race. Distances very from 1.2km up to 50km. There is also a relay and a team sprint, where teams of two do three legs of 1.25km each. This is Norway's national sport so it's no surprise they were the top team, winning 7 of the 12 golds and winning a medal in all but one event. Sweden had a strong showing in 2nd place, with (not)Russia 3rd. GB's 4 points came from Andrew Musgrave, who finished 7th in the skiathlon. After 4 sports, the number of teams with points is just 3 short of the number than won a medal in the entire Games.
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Post by Panda on May 16, 2020 20:30:09 GMT 1
Sport 5 of 15: CURLING (3 events) 1. Canada (1-0-0) 16 2. Sweden (1-1-0) 15 2. Switzerland (0-1-1) 15 4. South Korea (0-1-0) 14 5. United States (1-0-0) 12 6. China 9 6. Great Britain 9 8. Norway (0-0-1) 8 9. Japan (0-0-1) 7 10. Finland 2 Overall top 20: 1. Norway 216 2. Sweden 154 3. Switzerland 140 4. France 119 5. Germany 114 6. Austria 100 7. United States 98 8. Italy 80 9. Canada 62 10. Olympic Athletes from Russia 60 11. Finland 58 12. Czech Republic 38 13. Slovakia 32 14. Slovenia 30 15. Great Britain 27 15. South Korea 27 17. Belarus 23 18. Latvia 13 19. Japan 11 19. Liechtenstein 11 Number of teams with points: 28 Curling aficionados like to think of their sport as "chess on ice". In reality, it's more like bowls on ice, albeit with more of a long-term tactical plan. There were men's and women's competitions, each featuring 10 teams who played in a round robin, with the top 4 going through to the semi-finals. There was also an 8-team mixed doubles tournament for the first time, in which (not)Russia won a bronze medal, only to be disqualified for a doping violation (surely not). GB's women, led by Eve Muirhead, finished 4th, losing to Japan in the bronze medal match. GB's men narrowly missed the semi-finals, losing a tie-break match to Switzerland in which they gave up 5 in the final end to lose 9-5. The USA won the men's tournament, Sweden the women's and Canada the mixed doubles. Only Sweden and Switzerland won more than one medal but with Sweden not represented in the mixed doubles and Switzerland only finishing 7th in the women's tournament, Canada topped the points table thanks to 4th and 6th place finishes in the men's and women's events.
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Post by Panda on May 16, 2020 23:05:16 GMT 1
Sport 6 of 15: FIGURE SKATING (5 events) 1. Canada (2-0-2) 32 2. Olympic Athletes from Russia (1-2-0) 29 3. United States (0-0-2) 20 4. Japan (1-1-0) 18 5. Italy 17 6. China (0-1-0) 16 7. France (0-1-0) 11 8. Germany (1-0-0) 10 9. Spain (0-0-1) 9 10. South Korea 4 11. Great Britain 3 11. Israel 3 13. Kazakhstan 2 13. North Korea 2 15. Belgium 1 15. Czech Republic 1 15. Poland 1 15. Slovakia 1 Overall top 20: 1. Norway 217 2. Sweden 154 3. Switzerland 140 4. France 130 5. Germany 124 6. United States 118 7. Austria 100 8. Italy 97 9. Canada 94 10. Olympic Athletes from Russia 89 11. Finland 58 12. Czech Republic 39 13. Slovakia 33 14. Great Britain 30 14. Slovenia 30 14. South Korea 30 17. Japan 29 18. China 25 19. Belarus 23 20. Latvia 13 Number of teams with points: 31 Figure skating consisted of the usual singles, pairs and ice dance, plus a new team event which saw an additional version of the aforementioned events with a points system used to determine the standings. GB's sole representatives were Penny Coomes and Nick Buckland, who finished 11th in the Ice Dance, earning 3 points. Points for Spain (who won only their 4th ever Winter Olympics medal), Israel and North Korea take the number of teams on the scoreboard beyond the total on the final medal table and we're not even halfway through yet.
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Post by Panda on May 17, 2020 0:42:20 GMT 1
Sport 7 of 15: FREESTYLE SKIING (10 events) 1. Canada (4-2-1) 61 2. United States (1-2-1) 44 3. France (1-1-0) 31 4. Switzerland (1-2-1) 29 5. Australia (0-1-0) 25 5. Olympic Athletes from Russia (0-0-2) 25 7. Great Britain (0-0-1) 18 8. Norway (1-0-0) 17 9. China (0-2-1) 16 10. Belarus (1-0-0) 12 10. Kazakhstan (0-0-1) 12 10. Sweden 12 13. Austria 11 13. Japan (0-0-1) 11 15. Ukraine (1-0-0) 10 16. New Zealand (0-0-1) 9 17. Germany 6 18. Slovenia 4 19. Italy 3 19. South Korea 3 21. Czech Republic 1 Overall top 20: 1. Norway 234 2. Switzerland 169 3. Sweden 166 4. United States 162 5. France 161 6. Canada 155 7. Germany 130 8. Olympic Athletes from Russia 114 9. Austria 111 10. Italy 100 11. Finland 58 12. Great Britain 48 13. China 41 14. Czech Republic 40 14. Japan 40 16. Belarus 35 17. Slovenia 34 18. Slovakia 33 18. South Korea 33 20. Australia 25 Number of teams with points: 33 Freestyle skiing consisted of 5 types of event: aerials, halfpipe, moguls, ski cross and slopestyle. Aerials, halfpipe and slopestyle are judged events. Moguls combines judgement of turns and jumps with time. Ski cross is a race event which sees upto 4 competitors racing simultaneously. The sport made its debut in 1992 with moguls and the other events have gradually been added over the course of time. Big air will be added at the 2022 Games after it was part of the snowboarding programme in Pyeongchang. Canada came out on top for the third sport in a row, winning 4 gold medals. No other nation won more than one. GB picked up its first medal (based on the order I'm doing this list) with Izzy Atkin taking bronze in slopestyle. There were also points for Murray Buchan in the halfpipe (finished 14th but was 6th nation overall to earn 3 points), Rowan Cheshire (7th in halfpipe, picking up 3 points) and James Woods (4th in slopestyle).
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Post by Panda on May 17, 2020 1:09:57 GMT 1
Sport 8 of 15: ICE HOCKEY (2 events) 1. Canada (0-1-1) 13 1. Olympic Athletes from Russia (1-0-0) 13 3. United States (1-0-0) 10 4. Finland (0-0-1) 9 5. Germany (0-1-0) 7 6. Sweden 6 7. Czech Republic 5 8. Switzerland 4 9. Japan 3 10. Korea 1* 10. Norway 1 * North and South Korea agreed to field a joint team in the women's ice hockey competiton. In the overall table, both nations have been awarded a point. Overall top 20: 1. Norway 235 2. Switzerland 173 3. Sweden 172 3. United States 172 5. Canada 168 6. France 161 7. Germany 137 8. Olympic Athletes from Russia 127 9. Austria 111 10. Italy 100 11. Finland 67 12. Great Britain 48 13. Czech Republic 45 14. Japan 43 15. China 41 16. Belarus 35 17. Slovenia 34 17. South Korea 34 19. Slovakia 33 20. Australia 25 Number of teams with points: 33 Ice hockey is one of two sports in the Winter Olympics that have featured at the Summer Games (the other being figure skating). The 2018 events featured a 12-team men's tournament and an 8-team women's tournament, consisting of a group stage, then knockouts. Canada and (not)Russia finished joint top on points but Canada were the only nation to win a medal in both competitions. As we pass the halfway stage, Norway are still out in front overall but their lead is shrinking. It's really tight after that with just 12 points separating 2nd and 6th. Great Britain are performing above their medal table position so far and with only one medal accounted for up to this point, there are more points to come.
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Post by Shireblogger on May 17, 2020 8:03:52 GMT 1
GB doing surprisingly well given the dearth of facilities for winter sports enthusiasts.
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Post by vastar iner on May 17, 2020 15:02:00 GMT 1
Sport 6 of 15: Points for Spain (who won only their 4th ever Winter Olympics medal) Their third coming in the same Games. Their other two had come from a brother-sister pairing (Francisco and Bianca Fernandez Ochoa) in skiing, 20 years apart.
You'd think Spain would be much, much better than they are at winter sports. They share the Pyrenees with France and have their own Sierra Nevada range in the south. One gold medal is fewer than Liechtenstein.
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Post by Panda on May 17, 2020 15:31:45 GMT 1
Sport 9 of 15: LUGE (4 events) 1. Germany (3-1-2) 30 2. Austria (1-1-1) 24 2. Canada (0-1-1) 24 4. United States (0-1-0) 21 5. Italy 15 6. Latvia 10 7. Olympic Athletes from Russia 6 7. South Korea 6 9. Romania 5 10. Poland 2 11. Switzerland 1 Overall top 20: 1. Norway 235 2. United States 193 3. Canada 192 4. Switzerland 174 5. Sweden 172 6. Germany 167 7. France 161 8. Austria 135 9. Olympic Athletes from Russia 133 10. Italy 115 11. Finland 67 12. Great Britain 48 13. Czech Republic 45 14. Japan 43 15. China 41 16. South Korea 40 17. Belarus 35 18. Slovenia 34 19. Slovakia 33 20. Australia 25 Number of teams with points: 34 In this country, luge is probably considered as one of the quirkier winter sports but it's a huge staple of the Eurosport schedule and seems to be very big in Germany, who've dominated since it was introduced in 1964. East Germany was the top luge nation for decades and since re-unification, Germany has continued to be at the top of the sport (you may remember Georg Hackl, who won 3 gold and 2 silver medals across 5 Olympics and drew attention in the UK for his resemblance to Jimmy Hill), winning at least one luge gold at every Games. The events in Pyeongchang consisted of men's and women's singles events, a doubles events that was in theory open to both men and women but in which all the competitors were male, plus a mixed relay. Germany won 3 of the 4 gold medals on offer. GB's two representatives were both in the men's event. Adam Rosen finished in 22nd place. Due to the number of teams with multiple entrants, 19th would've been enough to earn a point. In the overall points table, Norway's lead is reduced again after another sport in which they didn't compete. The USA and Canada leapfrog Switzerland and Sweden. Canada are now on a run of 24 events in a row in which they've scored points.
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Post by Panda on May 17, 2020 16:35:57 GMT 1
Sport 10 of 15: NORDIC COMBINED (3 events) 1. Germany (3-1-1) 24 2. Norway (0-1-0) 19 3. Japan (0-1-0) 18 4. Austria (0-0-2) 16 5. Finland 12 6. France 10 7. Czech Republic 3 7. United States 3 9. Estonia 2 10. Italy 1 Overall top 20: 1. Norway 254 2. United States 196 3. Canada 192 4. Germany 191 5. Switzerland 174 6. Sweden 172 7. France 171 8. Austria 151 9. Olympic Athletes from Russia 133 10. Italy 116 11. Finland 79 12. Japan 61 13. Czech Republic 48 13. Great Britain 48 15. China 41 16. South Korea 40 17. Belarus 35 18. Slovenia 34 19. Slovakia 33 20. Australia 25 Number of teams with points: 34 Nordic combined sees competitors take part in both ski jumping and cross-country skiing. The results from the ski jump are converted into time and competitors set off for the cross-country race at designated intervals according to their ski jump performance, with the first competitor across the finish line winning gold. There were 2 individual events, one with the large hill for the ski jump and one with the normal hill, with both followed by a 10km cross-country race. There was also a team event which culminated in a 4x5km relay. As women's ski jumping is still in its infancy at this level, there is currently no women's Nordic combined competition. Germany had a clean sweep of gold medals and had a 1-2-3 finish in the large hill/10km event. Canada wasn't represented in the sport so its run of scoring came to an end. Germany is now on a run of 6 gold medals in a row.
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Post by Panda on May 17, 2020 19:23:53 GMT 1
Sport 11 of 15: SHORT TRACK SPEED SKATING (8 events) 1. South Korea (3-1-2) 51 2. Canada (1-1-3) 49 3. China (1-2-0) 36 4. Netherlands (1-2-1) 35 5. Hungary (1-0-0) 31 6. Italy (1-1-1) 26 7. Olympic Athletes from Russia (0-0-1) 12 8. Japan 12 9. United States (0-1-0) 11 10. France 6 11. Great Britain 5 11. Kazakhstan 5 13. Latvia 3 Overall top 20: 1. Norway 254 2. Canada 241 3. United States 207 4. Germany 191 5. France 177 6. Switzerland 174 7. Sweden 172 8. Austria 151 9. Olympic Athletes from Russia 150 10. Italy 142 11. South Korea 91 12. Finland 79 13. China 77 14. Japan 73 15. Great Britain 53 16. Czech Republic 48 17. Belarus 35 17. Netherlands 35 19. Slovenia 34 20. Slovakia 33 Number of teams with points: 36 Short track speed skating made its official debut in 1992, having previously been a demonstration sport (GB's Wilf O'Reilly won gold in Calgary in 1988 but it doesn't count as an official Olympic medal). There were 4 events for men and women - 3 individual races of 500m, 1000m and 1500m plus a relay of 5000m for men and 3000m for women. The host nation finally had its moment to shine as it topped the short track standings. Canada won 5 medals to close Norway's lead at the top to just 13 points with 4 sports to go. This was yet another sport in which Norway wasn't represented. GB, and in particular, Elise Christie, had a miserable time of it again. She was taken out in the 500m final and finished 4th and fell foul of the officials in the 1000m and 1500m after collisions with other skaters. Short track has highlighted on numerous occasions the stupidity of its own rules and some of its officials and putting this list together shed light on its ridiculous classification system. If a skater is penalised in a final, they are relegated to the bottom of the standings of the B Final. I have completely ignored this rule. The Netherlands and Hungary both had very strong performances as we start to see some of the nations whose Winter Olympics is based around one or two sports in which they are competitive. Indeed, the Dutch had dominated the long track version for many years coming into Pyeongchang. We'll see if that continued in due course.
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Post by Panda on May 17, 2020 20:01:42 GMT 1
Sport 12 of 15: SKELETON (2 events) 1. Great Britain (1-0-2) 14 2. Germany (0-1-0) 11 3. Latvia 10 4. South Korea (1-0-0) 8 5. Olympic Athletes from Russia (0-1-0) 7 6. Austria 6 7. Netherlands 4 7. United States 4 9. Canada 3 10. Switzerland 2 10. Ukraine 2 12. China 1 Overall top 20: 1. Norway 254 2. Canada 244 3. United States 211 4. Germany 202 5. France 177 6. Switzerland 176 7. Sweden 172 8. Austria 157 8. Olympic Athletes from Russia 157 10. Italy 152 11. South Korea 99 12. Finland 79 13. China 78 14. Japan 73 15. Great Britain 67 16. Czech Republic 48 17. Netherlands 39 18. Latvia 36 19. Belarus 35 20. Slovenia 34 Number of teams with points: 36 Lizzy Yarnold became the first Briton to successfully defend a Winter Olympic title by following up on her win in Sochi in 2014. It's actually the 3rd time in a row GB has won gold in this event after Amy Williams was victorious in Vancouver in 2010. GB has never failed to win a medal in the women's event since Skeleton was re-introduced in 2002. There, Alex Coomber won bronze and Shelly Rudman took silver four years later in Turin. The event in Pyeongchang also saw Laura Deas win bronze for GB, while Dom Parsons took bronze in the men's event. It's a shame there were just the two individual events, considering how several other sports are adopting rather contrived "team" competitions. Canada scored 3 points to close the gap on Norway a little more. Latvia didn't win a skeleton medal but was consistently competitive across the sliding events and move into the top 20.
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Post by Panda on May 17, 2020 22:10:34 GMT 1
Sport 13 of 15: SKI JUMPING (4 events) 1. Germany (1-3-0) 29 1. Norway (2-1-2) 29 3. Poland (1-0-1) 20 4. Japan (0-0-1) 17 5. Austria 16 6. Slovenia 14 7. Olympic Athletes from Russia 7 8. Switzerland 6 9. Italy 2 9. United States 2 11. Bulgaria 1 11. Finland 1 Overall top 20: 1. Norway 283 2. Canada 244 3. Germany 231 4. United States 213 5. Switzerland 182 6. France 177 7. Austria 173 8. Sweden 172 9. Olympic Athletes from Russia 164 10. Italy 144 11. South Korea 99 12. Japan 90 13. Finland 80 14. China 78 15. Great Britain 67 16. Czech Republic 48 16. Slovenia 48 18. Netherlands 39 19. Latvia 36 20. Belarus 35 Number of teams with points: 37 Ski jumping consisted of individual normal hill and large hill events for men, a team event on the large hill and an individual normal hill event for women. Norway and Germany were tied on points though Norway topped the medal table with 2 golds. Norway extend their lead at the top after one of their stronger sports. With snowboarding and speed skating still to come, Canada still possibly present the best chance of catching the Norwegians. Snowboarding will give GB one last chance to get points before they are inevitably overtaken by the Dutch after the speed skating. Sweden haven't had a single competitor in the last 5 sports, hence their slide down the table.
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Post by Panda on May 17, 2020 23:06:21 GMT 1
Sport 14 of 15: SNOWBOARDING (10 events) 1. United States (4-2-1) 56 2. Switzerland (1-0-0) 32 3. Canada (1-2-1) 28 4. Japan (0-1-0) 26 5. France (1-1-0) 24 6. Austria (1-0-0) 21 7. Australia (0-1-1) 19 8. Norway 18 9. New Zealand (0-0-1) 15 10. Czech Republic (1-0-1) 14 11. Finland (0-0-1) 13 11. Germany (0-1-1) 13 13. Olympic Athletes from Russia 12 14. Spain (0-0-1) 11 15. Italy (1-0-0) 10 15. South Korea (0-1-0) 10 17. China (0-1-0) 9 18. Slovenia (0-0-1) 8 19. Great Britain (0-0-1) 6 19. Sweden 6 21. Bulgaria 4 22. Belgium 3 23. Poland 2 Overall top 20: 1. Norway 301 2. Canada 272 3. United States 269 4. Germany 244 5. Switzerland 214 6. France 201 7. Austria 194 8. Sweden 178 9. Olympic Athletes from Russia 176 10. Italy 154 11. Japan 116 12. South Korea 109 13. Finland 93 14. China 87 15. Great Britain 73 16. Czech Republic 62 17. Slovenia 56 18. Australia 44 19. Netherlands 39 20. Latvia 36 Number of teams with points: 37 Snowboarding consisted of 5 events for men and women: big air, halfpipe, parallel giant slalom, slopestyle and snowboard cross. The USA topped the table after winning 4 golds. They were the only team to win more than one. Billy Morgan won a brilliant big air bronze for GB but it was a disappointing time for the rest of the British snowboarders as none came close to scoring points, let alone winning a medal. GB will score no further points as they weren't represented in long track speed skating, though Elise Christie is considering competing in both forms in Beijing in 2022. At the top, Canada cut Norway's lead to 29 points, with the USA now only 3 points further back. There's just one sport to go but it had 14 events so a lot of points on offer.
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Post by Panda on May 17, 2020 23:53:45 GMT 1
Sport 15 of 15: SPEED SKATING (14 events) 1. Netherlands (7-4-5) 94 2. Japan (3-2-1) 66 3. South Korea (1-4-2) 59 4. Norway (2-1-1) 42 5. Canada (1-1-0) 35 6. United States (0-0-1) 31 7. Czech Republic (0-1-1) 27 8. Germany 20 9. Belgium (0-1-0) 18 10. China (0-0-1) 17 11. Italy (0-0-1) 16 12. Austria 13 13. Belarus 11 13. Olympic Athletes from Russia (0-0-1) 11 15. New Zealand 10 16. Poland 8 17. Latvia 7 18. Estonia 5 18. Finland 5 18. Switzerland 5 21. Denmark 4 Speed skating (often referred to as long track speed skating to avoid confusion with the short track version) takes place on a two-lane 400m track. Skaters race in pairs, swapping lanes on the back straight on every lap. Distances range from 500m up to 10000m. There is also a team pursuit event and a mass start race, similar to the scratch race in track cycling. Netherlands dominated once again - not quite to the same extent they did in Sochi but they won 7 gold medals, won a medal in 12 events and scored points in every one. They also had a clean sweep in the women's 3000m, in which Ireen Wust finished 2nd to win her 9th Olympic medal. She would win two more before the end of the Games, including gold in the 1500m, the 5th gold of her career, having won her first in Turin in 2006 at the age of 19. Norway will finish top of the overall points table after winning two gold medals. Canada couldn't make any impression on them but managed to hold off the USA for 2nd place. GB drop a couple of places, with Netherlands overtaking a load of teams, and Czech Republic also going ahead after solid speed skating performance. There were also the first points of the Games for Denmark, a surprisingly weak winter sports nation, whose only ever medal was a silver in curling in 1998.
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Post by Panda on May 18, 2020 0:22:50 GMT 1
FINAL POINTS TABLE: (Medal table position in first brackets) (ranking in terms of size of team in second brackets*) 1(1)(10) Norway 343 2(3)(2) Canada 307 3(4)(1) United States 300 4(2)(5) Germany 264 5(8)(3) Switzerland 219 6(10)(13) Austria 207 7(9)(9) France 201 8(13)(4) Olympic Athletes from Russia 187 9(11)(7) Japan 182 10(6)(9) Sweden 178 11(12)(8) Italy 170 12(7)(6) South Korea 168 13(5)(23) Netherlands 133 14(16)(15) China 104 15(18)(12) Finland 98 16(14)(14) Czech Republic 89 17(19)(18) Great Britain 73 18(24)(16) Slovenia 56 19(15)(23) Belarus 46 20(23)(20) Australia 44 21(28)(22) Latvia 43 21(20)(17) Poland 43 23(26)(31) New Zealand 34 24(17)(19) Slovakia 33 25(21)(32) Hungary 31 26(25)(28) Belgium 24 27(28)(21) Kazakhstan 20 27(26)(35) Spain 20 29(21)(23) Ukraine 14 30(28)(55) Liechtenstein 11 31(--)(28) Estonia 8 32(--)(30) Bulgaria 5 32(--)(26) Romania 5 34(--)(34) Denmark 4 35(--)(36) Israel 3 35(--)(27) North Korea 3 37(--)(32) Croatia 1 37(--)(37) Lithuania 1 Teams that didn't score points: (62) Albania (42) Andorra (40) Argentina (55) Armenia (74) Azerbaijan (74) Bermuda (62) Bolivia (45) Bosnia & Herzegovina (37) Brazil (40) Chile (45) Chinese Taipei (45) Colombia (74) Cyprus (74) East Timor (74) Ecuador (74) Eritrea (45) Georgia (74) Ghana (45) Greece (74) Hong Kong (42) Iceland (62) India (45) Iran (42) Ireland (55) Jamaica (74) Kenya (74) Kosovo (62) Kyrgyzstan (55) Lebanon (74) Luxembourg (55) Macedonia (74) Madagascar (62) Malaysia (74) Malta (45) Mexico (62) Moldova (45) Monaco (62) Mongolia (55) Montenegro (62) Morocco (55) Nigeria (62) Pakistan (62) Philippines (62) Portugal (74) Puerto Rico (74) San Marino (45) Serbia (74) Singapore (74) South Africa (45) Thailand (74) Togo (74) Tonga (39) Turkey (62) Uzbekistan * It's worth mentioning that being in the ice hockey competitions had a significant effect on the size of a team. There were 25 players per squad in the men's tournament and 23 per squad in the women's, apart from the unified Korea squad which had 12 North Korean players in addition to 23 South Koreans. Those that had ice hockey teams were: Canada (both) Czech Republic (men) Finland (both) Germany (men) Japan (women) North Korea (13 women) Norway (men) Olympic Athletes from Russia (both) Slovakia (men) Slovenia (men) South Korea (both) Sweden (both) Switzerland (both) United States (both)
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Post by Shireblogger on May 18, 2020 7:42:22 GMT 1
A pretty satisfactory showing for team GB. But if you'd asked me which sport we did best at, I'd have said snowboarding, where we actually finished 19th. Coming first in skeleton is a superb result for a nation which doesn't have a skeleton track. Thanks very much Panda; interesting feature, as always.
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