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  1. 2019–20 BMW IBSF Skeleton World Cup, Lake Placid

Medal Ceremony

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  • Medal podium

    Medal podium

    The new (probably temporary) medal podium at the Lake Placid Combined Track. Due to construction, the historic location in front of the lodge was unavailable for the 2019/2020 season, so this new area was constructed on the back side.

  • Major medals

    Major medals

    Rather than gold, silver, and bronze medals, everyone gets the same medal on a different colored ribbon.

  • This evening's medals

    This evening's medals

    The skeleton medal ceremony awards medals to the top six finishers in men's and women's skeleton. (No bobsled events were held this day, so those medals were yet to be awarded.)

  • Team USA athletes waiting for the ceremony to start

    Team USA athletes waiting for the ceremony to start

  • Elena Nikitina (RUS) ambles toward the medal ceremony

    Elena Nikitina (RUS) ambles toward the medal ceremony

    A delightful feature of this sport and this venue is how close fans get to the athletes. The medalists are just waiting outside with what few fans remain in the cold December air (and light rain, as it happened on this occasion). Nikitina won the women's skeleton, and she's slowly walking from the lodge toward where I'm standing in front of the medal stand. In previous years with a more compressed schedule, a separate medal ceremony was held just for the women's skeleton, in the early afternoon.

  • Women's medal podium

    Women's medal podium

    6: Tina Hermann (GER) 5: Kendall Wesenberg (USA) 4: Mimi Rahneva (CAN) 3: Janine Flock (AUT) 2: Jacqueline Loelling (GER) 1: Elena Nikitina (RUS)

  • Women's medal podium

    Women's medal podium

    As the women step closer together, you can clearly see how much taller Janine and especially Jacka are than Elena.

  • Women's medal podium selfies

    Women's medal podium selfies

    The women paused the ceremony take some group selfies on their phones.

  • Yun Sungbin (KOR)

    Yun Sungbin (KOR)

    Medal for 6th place

  • Tomass Dukurs (LAT)

    Tomass Dukurs (LAT)

    Medal for 5th place

  • Tomass Dukurs (LAT)

    Tomass Dukurs (LAT)

    Medal for 5th place This is just a crop of the previous photo.

  • Axel Jungk (GER)

    Axel Jungk (GER)

    Medal for 4th place

  • Martins Dukurs (LAT)

    Martins Dukurs (LAT)

    Silver medal

  • Martins Dukurs (LAT)

    Martins Dukurs (LAT)

    Silver medal

  • Men's medal podium: flag raising

    Men's medal podium: flag raising

    Unlike the old location in front of the lodge, here the flagpoles are behind the podium, so the athletes have to turn around to salute the flags. (Even though there are six medals awarded, only three flags are raised.)

  • Nikitina photographing the men's podium

    Nikitina photographing the men's podium

    After the women's ceremony, gold medalist Elena Nikitina (RUS) joined the audience just to my right to take pictures of her teammate Alexander Tretiakov, winner of the men's race.

  • Unknown Team Korea member

    Unknown Team Korea member

    Someone from the Korean team (sorry, I don't know their name) joined the audience to photograph teammate Yun Sungbin, who made a disappointing sixth place finish in the men's race.

  • Men's medal podium

    Men's medal podium

    6: Yun Sungbin (KOR) 5: Tomass Dukurs (LAT) 4: Axel Jungk (GER) 3: Felix Keisinger (GER) 2: Martins Dukurs (LAT) 1: Alexander Tretiakov (RUS)

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