How many times can the medal table of an Olympic Games change after the end? Every change is related to stimulants.
It's been eight years since the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics, and the medal table has changed eight times. Now, the ninth change is about to happen again.
It is not too much to identify the medal table of the Sochi Winter Olympics as the most chaotic.
On March 9, Beijing time, the Russian media "Russian Sports" could not help but ask: eight years later, the medal table of the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics is still not determined, who won?
Why did the Russian media suddenly "flip through" the Sochi Winter Olympics, which has been 8 years old? This is because of the latest information released from the International Court of Arbitration for Sport that the hearing on uschogov doping will be postponed again!
At the Sochi Winter Olympics, Uschogov and his teammates won the gold medal in the biathlon relay, but with the data of the Moscow Anti-Doping Laboratory leaked, several Russian athletes were subject to investigation by the World Anti-Doping Organization.
After investigation, Uschogov was found to be doping, and the World Anti-Doping Organization decided to confiscate Russia's relay gold medal. The Russian side appealed to the International Court of Arbitration for Sport.
The hearing was originally scheduled for October 2020, but was postponed to November 2021 due to the virus, and was later postponed again because the Russian side did not recognize the evidence presented by the independent anti-doping agency in winter.
The most important reason why Uschogov's case has attracted so much attention is that the final ownership of this gold medal will determine the ranking of the medal table at the Sochi Olympic Games!
Until then, Russia is temporarily in first place, but only one gold medal ahead of second-place Norway, and if Russia is stripped of this gold medal, then they will fall to the second place in the medal table and witness Norway to the top.
Sport Russia has no hope of Uschogov's hearing, and the media believes that the International Court of Arbitration for Sport will most likely reject the appeal and uphold the original judgment.
Even if it is accidentally determined that Uschogov did not violate the rules, then the World Anti-Doping Organization is still waiting for him "outside the door", the agency has dug up another case of Uschogov's doping, Uschogov is likely to be severely fined, from 2010 to 2014 the entire peak of the achievements canceled, including the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics gold medal!
Looking back to the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics, Russia won 13 gold medals, 11 silver medals and 9 bronze medals, ranking first at the end of the Winter Olympics.
After that, the World Anti-Doping Organization stripped Russia of 11 medals, including 4 gold medals, 6 silver medals and 1 bronze medal, and Russia also dropped from the first place in the medal table to the third place.
In the past eight years, after the Russian side has not appealed, a number of medals have been recovered. In eight years, the medal table of the Sochi Winter Olympics has also changed eight times, which is quite rare in olympic history.
Now, the ninth change is about to begin!