Road to Sochi : Pre-Olympics World Championships.

[Seerek]

Women's World Curling Championship results:

Gold - Scotland (Eve Muirhead)
Silver - Sweden (Margaretha Sigfridsson)
Bronze - Canada (Rachel Homan)

[caseyedwards]

Saw this article by afp

Any dreams Russia had of dominating its home Winter Olympic Games in Sochi next year have been dealt a harsh reality check by the mediocre performances of the country's athletes this season.

http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/n...-reality-check

[Domshabfan]

Ice hockey women
Gold : USA
Silver: Canada
Bronze : Russia

Curling Men
Gold : Sweden
Silver: Canada
Bronze: Scotland (GBR)

[dardar1126]

Twitter:

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U.S. Olympic speedskater Apolo Ohno won't compete at 2014 Winter Games, will be there as broadcaster http://olympictalk.nbcsports.com/201...sochi/related/ …

[Buzz]

That is too bad. He is one of the more colourful speed skaters and help put the sport on the map.

[Domshabfan]

Medal table based on the latest world championships (excluding Men's hockey world championships, which will be held later this year. Russia are the gold medalist from 2012 world championships, Slovenia silver and Czech Republic bronze medalist)

# Country G S В T
1 NOR 17 7 10 34
2 USA 13 6 9 28
3 GER 9 7 10 26
4 CAN 7 12 10 29
5 RUS 7 5 11 23
6 FRA 6 7 5 18
7 NED 6 7 4 17
8 KOR 6 5 1 12
9 CHN 6 1 2 9
10 SUI 4 5 0 9
11 АUT 3 7 6 16
12 SWE 2 7 2 11
13 SLO 2 3 2 7
14 GBR 2 1 2 5
15 POL 1 3 3 7
16 UKR 1 1 3 5
17 АUS 1 1 2 4
18 КAZ 1 1 2 4
19 CZE 1 1 1 3
20 FIN 1 0 3 4
21 BLR 1 0 0 1
22 JPN 0 4 4 8
23 ITA 0 4 3 7
24 LAT 0 1 1 2
25 CRO 0 1 0 1
26 ESP 0 0 1 1

The total include team event from the Figure skating team world cup...

source: http://news.sportbox.ru/Vidy_sporta/...medals/virtual

[caseyedwards]

Medal table based on the latest world championships (excluding Men's hockey world championships, which will be held later this year. Russia are the gold medalist from 2012 world championships, Slovenia silver and Czech Republic bronze medalist)

# Country G S В T
1 NOR 17 7 10 34
2 USA 13 6 9 28
3 GER 9 7 10 26
4 CAN 7 12 10 29
5 RUS 7 5 11 23
6 FRA 6 7 5 18
7 NED 6 7 4 17
8 KOR 6 5 1 12
9 CHN 6 1 2 9
10 SUI 4 5 0 9
11 АUT 3 7 6 16
12 SWE 2 7 2 11
13 SLO 2 3 2 7
14 GBR 2 1 2 5
15 POL 1 3 3 7
16 UKR 1 1 3 5
17 АUS 1 1 2 4
18 КAZ 1 1 2 4
19 CZE 1 1 1 3
20 FIN 1 0 3 4
21 BLR 1 0 0 1
22 JPN 0 4 4 8
23 ITA 0 4 3 7
24 LAT 0 1 1 2
25 CRO 0 1 0 1
26 ESP 0 0 1 1

The total include team event from the Figure skating team world cup...

source: http://news.sportbox.ru/Vidy_sporta/...medals/virtual

That medal table makes it seem less of a pending doom for Russia that provoked the kinds of articles I posted before. People are very doom and gloom about Russia medal chances in sochi because of lack of gold medals.