Aleksandr Zubkov, Russian bobsledder who won gold medals in both bobsled events in Sochi, was just disqualified, along with Olga Fatkulina, who won a silver medal in women’s 500 metre speed skating.
How does this affect the Sochi medal tables? See our post of two days ago on the topic of the changes in the Sochi medal table – https://olympstats.com/2017/11/22/the-sochi-medal-table-revisited/.
Here is what happens now, and I’m only going to list the top 5 nations in the first 2 tables, as there are no changes below that level.
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Original,NOC,G,S,B,TM,USRnk,EuRnk
23-Feb-14,RUS,13,11,9,33,1,1
23-Feb-14,USA,9,7,12,28,2,4
23-Feb-14,NOR,11,5,10,26,3,2
23-Feb-14,CAN,10,10,5,25,4,3
23-Feb-14,NED,8,7,9,24,5,5
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With the new disqualifications today, here is what happens.
By the US system, the USA is #1, followed by Norway in 2nd, Canada and 3rd, and Russia dropping to 4th. By the International system, now the rankings change quite a bit, with Norway in 1st, Canada in 2nd, the USA in 3rd, and Russia dropping from 1st to 4th. For an explanation of the two ranking systems, see yesterday’s post (noted above).
Please also note that the team disqualifications in bobsled are not automatic, as @OlympicStatman pointed out in a series of tweets, because of IBSF rules.
[table]
Current,NOC,G,S,B,TM,USRnk,EuRnk
22-Nov-17,USA,9,7,12,28,1,3
22-Nov-17,NOR,11,5,10,26,2,1
22-Nov-17,CAN,10,10,5,25,3,2
22-Nov-17,RUS,9,7,8,24,4,4
22-Nov-17,NED,8,7,9,24,5,5
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Now as we did 2 days ago, we’ll show you what happens if all medals are re-allocated, i.e., 4th moves up to 3rd, etc. As stated 2 days ago, there will be appeals, and it will take awhile and there is no guarantee all these medals will be re-allocated, but this is what it could look like. Here we go down to 19th/17th place since Latvia would move up in 4-man bobsled and is affected. Here, Russia actually stays in 3rd in both systems, because it could theoretically move up to a bronze medal in 4-man bobsled, after the Zubkov team disqualification, although that may be a stretch (they are also being investigated, it is rumored).
[table]
Possible,NOC,G,S,B,TM,USRnk,EuRnk
Possible,NOR,11,6,12,29,1,1
Possible,USA,9,10,10,29,2,4
Possible,RUS,10,7,9,26,3,3
Possible,CAN,10,10,5,25,4,2
Possible,NED,8,8,8,24,5,5
Possible,GER,8,6,5,19,6,6
Possible,AUT,4,8,5,17,7,9
Possible,FRA,4,5,6,15,8,10
Possible,SWE,2,8,5,15,9,14
Possible,SUI,7,2,2,11,10,7
Possible,CHN,3,4,3,10,11,12
Possible,KOR,3,3,2,8,12,13
Possible,CZE,2,4,2,8,13,15
Possible,SLO,2,2,4,8,14,16
Possible,JPN,1,4,3,8,15,18
Possible,ITA,0,2,6,8,16,23
Possible,BLR,5,0,2,7,17,8
Possible,POL,4,1,1,6,18,11
Possible,LAT,2,0,3,5,19,17
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As we said yesterday, there is certainly still more to come.