Belarus expects to win 5 medals at Sochi Olympics

Minister of Sport and Tourism Alyaksandr Shamko has claimed it.

Five medals are “an objective expectation”, he told Pressball.

The medal plans do not come “from nowhere. Coaches try to predict the results and set goals themselves,” the Minister claimed.

The Winter Olympics will be held in Sochi, Russia, on February 7-23, 2014.