The Winter Olympic Virus Day 7

• China wants another gold medal, and they may have cause to get it.
• And it's Canada's only one -- the snowboard Big Air gold, won for now by Max Parrot of Canada.
• It appears the head judge has admitted, upon further view, a serious error in the scoring of Parrot's final jump, which won him gold.  Specifically, he was supposed to grab the board on the trick, and only could get to his knee -- he was scored for getting to the board.
• China's Su Yiming got silver, unless this gets reversed.
• The International Testing Association has confirmed the positive drug test for Valieva, but has stated the provisional suspension for the test only took effect on February 8th, which would be the day after the team competition ended.  The IOC has already appealed the decision, not waiting for Russia to do so, simply because of the fact it wants a decision before the women's competition begins.
• The Russians have lifted the suspension through the appeal process, so Valieva, for now, can compete, but the IOC wants this in the books by the time the women's event starts.
• And I'm betting quatloos now that the other two women of that vaunted trio aren't clean either.  We just don't know it yet from the fact they haven't started competition.
• And that test was taken Christmas Day, at the Russian National Championships.  Hmmmmmmmmm...  Did they get a sample from her in Beijing?  I think that might have to be the determinant here.  
• It is clear this was a pre-competition situation, but would this not still DQ the team medal, because her performances in the national championship are now void, due to the positive test taken there?
• The ITA, at this point, believes the ISU has the sole discretion at reversing the medal.
• A Ukranian skeleton athlete has probably gotten himself thrown out of the Games for his "No War" message on his person after his runs today.
• There is an increasing Russian troll presence to defend the Russian drug program on sites like Inside the Games.

Medal Count:

• With another sliding gold (and a 1-2 in the men's skeleton), the Germans re-top the table with 7 golds.  They have swept the championships in the sliding events for five of them and also won the Nordic Combined and the women's 15km biathlon.
• Norway has six golds, Norway and Sweden have five, Austria and the USA have four.
• Norway and Austria now joint-lead the total with 14, the illegal Russian team and Canada have 12 each.  Germany has 11, the USA and Italy have 10.
• The United States was completely shut out of the medal table on Day 7.
• Six medal events on Day 8.
• And of the 109 events of the Games, 52 -- almost half -- are in the books.
• 20 nations have gold medals, there are 26 nations on the table.