Russia returned to the Olympic Games. Still at the youth level, but straight into the top three.
At the Youth Olympics in Dakar, our team, consisting of only 13 athletes, already won 8 gold medals, 4 silver medals and 1 bronze. In the medal standings, only China and Japan have more awards.
As Mikhail Degtyarev pointed out, these are the first major games under the auspices of the IOC after the restoration of the status of the Russian Olympic Committee. Our people appear on an equal footing with everyone else, under the state flag, and the national anthem is played in honor of victories.
And this is just the beginning of the comeback.