seventy are medals and pm chang is only minus twelve he compared to twenty nine team russian medals and tsotsi it stop a mind blowing result but it still deserves a huge round of applause given all the circumstances of said and given that most russian stars were not even invited it was mostly a team of olympic newbies but i'll tell you what did blow the mind of russian fans here and young chang that is of course the first gold medal that was won by the men's hockey team and twenty six years the final was tough neck and neck till the last second against the surprise silver medalists germany the red machine only made it clear who's boss on ice in the extra time but the oh you are actually won a total of two gold medals and the first one was no less special it was in figure skating i can tell you that two russian teenage girls topped the podium after setting two world records in a row within just fifteen minutes but of course there was only one gold medal and you can share that and the jury decided that it was alina is the gift of a fifteen year old girl from. in russia she won by only one extra

cast by the here reviewed these criteria and said they were fair please let me get this straight the tsotsi case and the chain case you're saying that there are absolutely no contradictions between the two decisions yes the fact that you cannot establish the give evidence of the deal doesn't mean that you have established the innocence of the athlete you see what i mean i'm sorry but i thought that was the exact job of cas to determine whether that suspicion is enough for that kind of bad maybe that there are suspicions which are not. confirmed by sufficient evidence i don't know if i'm clear because it's a little bit skopec ated that is you can have some elements which show some. suspicious actions by the athletes but they may not be sufficient to convince the panel that for sure at least is guilty of an anti-doping rule violation but it doesn't mean that they actually did nothing at all there may be some. some strange actions which could lead to some suspicion so you are saying there can be more transparency it's possible it's possible yes as you heard a couple of minutes ago when cas ini

bands that were due to violations in tsotsi as the international olympic committee was putting it the first reversal of the i.o.c. decision resulted in heavy criticism by the i.o.c. and back then cas was ruling out any kind of pressure by the olympic officials well i asked mr reed if anyone got back to the idea of possible reforms that cas and he said that back then it was the only time so basically after cats produced a ruling which was similar to how the i.o.c. sees the situation and nobody ever returned to that idea and i'll come back with more details of that exclusive interview and the next few hours and also the full version i guess will be available on our website the show will let everybody know when it's comin soon as it's available for now though in the olympic host city thanks very much. next washington's admitted that some of the kurdish forces are trained in syria shifting to fight against one of america's own allies turkey and i'm currently on the offensive in northern syria against groups that it deems as terrorists and has more on the tension is currently playing out i

cast by the here reviewed these criteria and said they were fair please let me get this straight the tsotsi case and the chain case your saying that there are absolutely no contradictions between the two decisions yes the fact that you cannot establish the give evidence of the deal doesn't mean that you have established the innocence of the athlete you see what i mean i'm sorry but i thought that was the exact job of cas to determine whether that suspicion is enough for that kind of bad maybe that there are suspicions which are notes. confirmed by sufficient evidence i don't know if i'm clear because it's a little bit skopec ated that is you can have some elements which show some. suspicious actions by the athletes but they may not be sufficient to convince the panel that for sure this athlete is guilty of an anti-doping rule violation but it doesn't mean that they actually did nothing at all there may be some. some strange actions which could lead to some suspicion so you are saying there can be more transparency it's possible it's possible yes as you heard a couple of minutes ago when cas

committee has unanimously a pound its ban on russia due to state sponsored doping of the twenty fourteen tsotsi games one hundred sixty eight russian athletes who took part in this year's games had to compete as a limb pick an athlete's from russia. meanwhile there have been protests as the north korean delegation arrived in the south for the closing ceremony of the winter olympics is being led by a controversial high ranking general kimmitt your choice many in the south of south believe that he orchestrated the attack on a south korean naval ship which killed dozens of sailors in two thousand and ten well it's a shock and i was our correspondent being at the olympics from gone can growing discontent over the arrival of this high profile general from the north i mean what more can we expect from the public call from the south korean government in response to the anguish that his arrival is creating. so this is part of a growing wave of discomfort content among the contingent of south koreans who are upset with president moon j ins policy of engagement that we've been witnessing since the start