Top 10 moments from the 2014 Sochi Olympics by The Indian Face
This Sunday the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics ended and with them our hope of winning a medal but... we never get discouraged! We have very young athletes who are already training hard for the upcoming Pyeongchang 2018 Games (South Korea).
In the medal table, Russia finished its own Games as the best with 33 medals; Norway in 2nd place with 26 medals; Canada 3rd with 25 medals (the champion of the previous Games in Vancouver 2010 was the favourite); and the USA 4th with 26 medals.
In The Indian Face We have taken stock of all these days and have chosen what we believe to be the ten best moments of these Games.
Our Top 10 Moments from the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics
1. First of all, and without a doubt, we are left with the best result of the Spanish team: the 4th place of the skater Javier Fernández.
2. The exercise by Spanish snowboarder Queralt Castellet that took her directly to the halfpipe final.
3. The performance of Japanese skater Yuzuru HANYU who at just 19 years old won his first Olympic medal.
4. “The dethroned prince of the halfpipe”: all the bets were on the American Shaun White as the winner, but he didn’t even make it to the podium and had to settle for 4th place. The gold medal went to the Russian naturalized Swiss Iouri Podladtchikov (better known as IPod).
5. The gold medal in the mixed biathlon relay won by Ole Einar Bjoerndalen, a forty-something Norwegian who holds the record for Olympic medals - no less than 13 medals!
6. Polish national pride Kamil Stoch, who added two gold medals to Poland's medal tally (11th place with 6 medals) in men's individual ski jumping on both the regular and large springboards.
7. The alpine skiing final saw, for the first time, two gold medals for the Swiss Dominique Gisin and the Slovenian Tina Maze who tied in the downhill with the same time (one minute, 41 seconds and 57 hundredths).
8. The willpower of Peruvian Roberto Carcelén, who finished last in the 15km cross-country skiing final with two broken ribs: Peruvian Carcelén, an example of dedication in Sochi.
9. The tribute to the Canadian freestyle skier Sarah Burke who died in 2012 while training. The Indian Face We join in the memory of this fantastic skier.
10. The return of Pussy Riot in Sochi.
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