Hooray for the Israeli team! They represent a great nation.
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Excellent preformence of Israel !!!
hurray!
It's always GOD bless the house of Israel.....
First time Israel wins a medal in the chess olympiads. The top 3 seeded teams did not win a medal. 10th seeded USA takes the bronze (repeat from last olympiad at the 2006 Olympiad in Turni in tiebreaker). Armenia repeats winning the gold for the 2nd time in a row. USSR (Russia) won from 1952 to 2004. This is the 2nd consecutive Olympiad that top-seeded Russia failed to take a medal. USA women's team had Anna Zatonskih win the individual gold medal for 2nd board and Rusudan Goletiani (not the fake one here) took the silver medal for 3rd board.
Go Israel! What a series of games. go Galfend!
congratulations to every country who participated, regardless of rank.