Team Russia Leads In Paralympic Medal Standings After Day 1 In ...

Ironic. Russian Paralympic team leads the medal standings with three golds, three silver and two bronze medals after a day of competition. By comparison, the Russian Olympic team won a medal the first day of the Games. In fact, this remained the only medal for Russia for another three days of competition. Overall, the Russian Olympians won 15 medals, only three were gold. Regarded as a fiasco, the performance of Olympic athletes of Russia became the subject of more than one in Russia during and after the Games. The country is still trying to understand what happened and who is to blame.

But the Russian Paralympic athletes made a powerful statement with their performance today. It is not the funding you receive. This is not to be treated like royalty at the House of Russia. It is not even on the support you get (such as decreasing the number of supporters of the Russian team for the Paralympic Games in Vancouver have shown). But as cliche as it sounds, when you do not have fat contracts and promotional offers fallback, just tend to perform as there is no tomorrow.

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