How will Russia perform at the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro?

Russian athletes participated in the Olympic Games for 34 times, for the first time in 1900. More than a hundred years they were first in the Russian Empire, then Soviet Union and now the Russian Federation.

Over the years, our country won gold 709, 585 silver, 572 bronze medals. Thanks to this, Russia and the Soviet Union occupied 15 times the first place in the medal standings by number of gold medals). And 16 times in informal (the total number of medals of all advantages).

Best in the history of our athletes competed at the Olympics of 1980 held in Moscow. Then they 80 once stood on the top step of the podium. In the last 25 years at the summer Games they won only 32% (in 2000 in Sydney), and winter – 13 times in 2014 in Sochi).

How do you think Russia will perform at the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro?

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