who keeps the olympic medals of the USSR? Russia?
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Medals for team sports are awarded to the members of the team not the government of the country, so the individuals and coaches keep the medals.
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Japan and Russia. U.S. and Spain.
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Most medals won by a man in a single games. Aleksandr Dityatin, gymnastics, Soviet Union, 1980 (3 gold, 4 silver, 1 bronze).
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Four athletes have won 9 gold medals:\n\nPaavo Nurmi (Finland), athletics, 1920-1928.\nLarisa Latynina (USSR), artistic gymnastics, 1956-1964.\nMark Spitz (USA), swimming, 1968 and 1972.\nCarl Lewis (USA), athletics, 1984-1996.
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The Unified Team at the 1992 Winter Olympics in Albertville was a joint team consisting of six of the fifteen former Soviet republics, namely Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Belarus, Uzbekistan, and Armenia. The Unified Team's only other appearance was at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona. It competed under the IOC country code EUN (from the French Equipe Unifiée). The team finished second to Germany in the overall medal tally with 9 gold medals, 6 silver medals, and 8 bronze medals for a total of 23 medals.
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I think you mean KGB.  If that is the case, it's the FBI/NSA version of the formet soviet union.  Recently retooled and still in existence.
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Formerly part of the Soviet Union.  Became independent 14 years ago.  The capital is Kiev.  First team in europe to qualify for the World Cup (not counting the hosts Germany, eho qualified automatically).  Home of the Cossacks.  Other major cities include Doenetsk and Dnepropetrovsk.  National flag is blue and yellow.  Main religion is Russian (?)Orthodox Christianity.
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The Country wins respect and happiness, even if it's a bronze. It's still a medal to them, so they technically don't win anything. They feel something, though.
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here's the gold medal count\n1. germany 11 \n2. u.s 9\n   aut. 9\n4. russia 8\n5. canada 7\n   sweeden 7\n7. south korea 6\n8. switzerland 5\n   italy 5\n10. france 3\n   neverlands3 \n   estonia3\n13. norway 2\n   china 2\n15. all of these are 1\n czech republic\n croatia\n austraila\n japan
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I don`t have the symbols on my key board to answer correctly,but in our language it`ll be USSR, th Union of Soviet Socialist Republic, with "Soviet" meaning "council",and a council being rather defunct during the Stalin years.
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Um...Every Olympics...Most recent Olympics was Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy, 2006.\n\nAdded:\nOK..OK... I think I realize what they are asking now....The last time they actually gave out actual Gold "gold medals" was in 1912. Now it is just gold plated silver for the "gold medals".\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olympic_Games#Olympic_champions_and_medalists
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To answer your questions in order:\n\nYes, the Soviet Union (which included Russia) was an ally of the US and the British.  The USSR (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, also called the Soviet Union.  Russia was a part of the USSR, but wasn't called Russia then), led by Stalin, signed a non-aggression pact with Hitler (leader of Germany).  This was in force until Hitler broke it and invaded the Soviet Union.  Stalin was taken unawares and unprepared, so Hitler did well at first.  Stalin therefore allied with the British and the US to fight the Germans.  The "cold war" didn't start until after WWII During the jostling for control over the states freed from the Nazis. \n\n*****\n\nThe USSR and the Japanese didn't work together.  The war in Europe against Germany) ended sooner than that in Japan (May 8, 1945 for Germany’s surrender and August 15, 1945 for Japan’s) and the USSR was free to declare war on Japan, which it did.  This was one of the reasons that the US dropped nuclear bombs on Japan.  It wanted to end the war before the Soviet Union forces entered the fighting, who would then stay and have control in that country and region.  \n\nAfter WWII Germany was divided into two halves, appropriately called West and East Germany.  The US, the United Kingdom (the British) and France controlled the West.  The Soviet Union controlled the East.  Germany was two different countries.  The US, UK and France set up a democracy in the West and then left (although the US left troops to guard against an attack from the Soviet Union, and many are still stationed there.  Now the bases are used as staging grounds for operations in the Afghanistan and Iraq).  The country they created was called the Federal Republic of Germany.\n\nThe Soviet Union established a country in the Eastern half, called the German Democratic Republic. This was not democratic though – it was communist.  The Soviet Union had many troops stationed there as well, and had a lot of influence in the Eastern half.  Vladimir Putin, the current President of the Russian Federation, worked in East Germany as a spy when he was part of the KGB (this isn’t a secret – he admits it freely and uses his excellent German in speeches).\n\n*****\nGermany played a very strong role in the War.  They were allied with Japan, but because they had some common enemies in their efforts to expand their territories.  In Europe, the war started when Germany annexed Austria and Czechoslovakia, claiming to be uniting the Germans who lived there (Austrians speak German and there were a lot of Germans in Czechoslovakia.  The moved there in the centuries that it belonged to the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the Austrian Empire and the Holy Roman Empire, which were all names used at different times to describe the same Empire ruled from the Austrian city of Vienna). At this point there was a lot of nervousness in Europe, as Hitler was using rhetoric such as “Germans need more land to live, which is their birthright.” But the British made a deal with Hitler that they would let him keep those countries if he didn’t go any further.  Hitler agreed, but he invaded Poland anyway, and kept going from there. He took France, Bombed England and wanted to invade, and moved through Eastern Europe.  He also invaded the USSR, as mentioned above.\n\nThe US at this point wasn’t involved.  Hitler made an alliance with the Japanese, who were engaged in their own war of expansion, because both were fighting the British and French (the British had a lot of Colonial holdings in the Pacific, and the French had some, too).  \n\nThe US became involved when the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor.  The Japanese wanted the US to withdraw from the pacific, but instead the US declared war on the Japanese.  The Japanese and the Germans were allied, so Germany declared war on the US, which then also entered the European war.  It was already helping the UK and the USSR with equipment and logistical support,
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Kazahstan first entered the Olympic Games as an independent nation in 1994 at the Lillehammer Games where Vladimir Smirnoov won the gold medal in the 50km Nordic Classical Skiing competition as well as two silvers in the 10km Cross Country and 15km Combined events. Since then the following Kazaks have won medals:\n\nAtlanta 1996 Summer Olympics:\n\nVasili Jirov (Gold, Men's Light Heavyweight Boxing)\nBolat Niyazymbetov (Bronze, Men's Light Welterweight Boxing)\nEsmouhan Ibraimov (Bronze, Men's Light Middleweight Boxing)\nYovei Melnichenko (Gold, Men's Bantamweight Greco Roman Wrestling)\nAnatoli Khrapaty (Silver, Men's Light Heavyweight Weightlifting)\nMaulen Mamirow (Bronze, Men's Flyweight Freestyle Wrestling)\nAlexander Parygrin (Gold, Men's Modern Pentathlon)\nSergei Belyayey (Silver, Men's Small Bore Rifle (Prone and 3 Positions))\nVladimir Vochmiamin (Bronze, Men's Rapid Fire Pistol)\n\nNagano 1998 Winter Olympics:\n\nLyudmilla Prokasheva (Bronze, Women's 5,000m Speed Skating)\nVladimir Smirnoov (Bronze, Men's 15km Combined Nordic Cross Country Skiing)\n\nSydney 2000 Summer Olympics:\n\nOlga Shishgina (Gold, Women's 100m Hurdles)\nBekzat Sattarkhanov (Gold, Men's Featherweight Boxing)\nYermakhan Ibraimov (Gold, Men's Light Middleweight Boxing)\nBulat Jumadilov (Silver, Men's Flyweight Boxing)\nMukhtarkhan Dildabekov (Silver, Men's Super Heavyweight Boxing)\nIslam Bairamukov (Silver, Light Heavyweight Wrestling)\nAlexandre Vinokouroiv (Silver, Men's Cycling Road Race)\n\nSalt Lake City 2002 Winter Olympics\n\nNo medals won\n\nAs to numbers of atheltes at each games that's a bit more tricky try
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The decision to give the USSR a final possession in the 1972 men's basketball olympic final.
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No ... keep sports and politics separate. Didn't we learn our lessons when the USA didn't go to the 1980 Moscow Olympics and the USSR returned the favor in 1984 in Los Angeles.
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It's capital was Moscow, as is that of the current Russian Federation.  Moscow is west of the Urals, so is considered to be in Europe.   Russia has always been considered a European founded nation state that expanded into Asia, so I would say both Russia and the former USSR belong to Europe.
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United States. Russia would've been #2, but most of theirs are decommissioned. India is proabbly #3. China a close #4.