The OFFICIAL 2014 Winter Olympics Thread

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I'm annoyed that NBC cuts away from the flag/athlete parade for commercials and we miss a few countries...

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Do the team figure skating scores reset for the finals, or do they carry through?  If it's the latter, the US is probably out of contention for anything better than bronze...

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This would have been the standing if they had just added up everyone's scores instead of the 10-9-8-etc. on the team figure skating:

866.63    Russia
814.28    Canada
784.31    United States
701.46    Japan
695.82    Italy
261.98    France
258.99    China
250.63    Germany
209.48    Ukraine
205.12    Great Britain

Japan and Italy would have flipped.

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Interesting tidbit:  if Vic Wild and Viktor Ahn had competed for their home countries instead of Russia, the USA would have won the medal count.

The US would have risen to 30 with Wild's 2, Russia would have fallen to 28 (not 27 because they probably would have at least still medaled in the short-track relay), and South Korea up to 11 (or 12 if Ahn lead them to a medal in the short-track relay).

The US would have at least tied Norway for most golds with 11, and probably won it outright at 12 since we probably would have beaten Russia in the short-track relay if they didn't have Ahn.

To be fair, I didn't go back and check and see if any of the American medalists were really from somewhere else.