- The B sample for curler Aleksandr Krushelnitckii has been confirmed for meladonin, so he's gone -- the question now that the OAR team is posing is to how it got there, and they are launching a criminal investigation. This is because the OAR team claims that Krushelnitckii has a negative test from January, as well as all the necessary tests needed to clear him for these Games.
- That said, the current fourth-place team from Norway wants a special medal ceremony to be awarded their bronze medal.
OK... Stop. If you were silver and graduated into gold, I could see it. Hold that in Norway.
- Alina Zagitova of the OAR was unable to complete her final run-throughs for the women's skating competition yesterday -- for a drug test.
- Richard Pound has been told by the president of the Council for the Arbitration of Sport (and an ally of IOC chief Bach) John Coates that he does not deserve to be recognized by the IOC as a doyen for his comments about Russian doping -- up to and including questioning the IOC actually investigating any of this before the Closing Ceremony.
All of those are from
Inside the Games --
the Pound/Coates repartee is an exclusive for the site.
- Ziga Jeglic has become the third failed drug test of the Games -- the Slovenian ice-hockey player blaming an asthma medication for the failure.
- Medal Count: A German sweep of the Nordic Combined event has allowed them to tie Norway with 11 gold medals. Norway tops the Olympic standard, though, with 10 silvers to Germany's 7 -- and the total, 29 to 23. Canada is third: 8 golds, 19 total. The Netherlands is fourth: 6 golds, 14 total. France is fifth: 5-4-4, 13 total. USA is now sixth on the table, 5-3-4. OAR has 11 for seventh on the table. Austria and Japan have 10 each total.
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