Team USA has moved from sixth place to third place in the race to win the most Winter Olympic medals.
The last six medals won by Team USA have all been gold, and Team USA has broken its tie with Canada at 17 medals to surge ahead of Germany has won 18 medals.
Norway, a country with a population of less than 15 million, has snow the year-round, and the nation has dominated the Winter Olympic Games, having won more medals in its history than any other nation coming into the 2022 Winter Olympic Games in Beijing.
It is as though Norway has just picked up where it left off in the 2018 Winter Olympics as it tops the leaderboard with 26 medals, seven more the Team USA that has advanced from a tie with Canada for sixth place to third place.
After the competition on Valentine’s Day, Norway led all nations with 26 medals, winning 12 gold medals, seven silver, and seven bronze.
ROC remains in second place with four gold, seven silver, and nine bronze, just one medal ahead of Team USA that has won twice as many gold medals as ROC. Team USA stands with eight gold, seven silver and four bronze.
Germany has dropped from third place to fourth place with a 9-6-3 total of 18.
Canada leads in bronze medals with 11 but has only won two gold medals and four silver to hold down the fifth position.
Austria is in sixth place with a 6-6-4 for a 16 total ahead of Japan in seventh place with 2-5-7 for a 14 tally.
The Netherlands (6-4-3) and Italy (2-6-5) are tied for eighth place with 13 medals each.
China, Sweden, and France have earned 12 medals each with China’s six gold leading the other two. China stands at (6-4-2), Sweden at (5-3-4), and France with (3-7-2).
Switzerland trails those three by two with a (5-0-5) for a total of 10.
Jesse Diggins became the first woman for the USA to win a medal (a bronze) in the individual sprint medal in cross country skiing.
Erin Jackson became the first black woman in USA Winter Olympic history to win a gold medal in speed skating.
The USA’s Casey Dawson, Emery Lehman, and Joey Mantia won Team USA’s first men’s pursuit medal since 2010 by soundly defeating the Netherland’s team by 2.81 seconds in the Final B. Ethan Cepuran who also raced for Team USA in the semifinals was awarded a medal.
So far, the women athletes for Team USA have won more than half of the 19 medals chalked up at the midway point of the Winter Olympics.
Medals for 109 events in seven sports will be awarded, and Norway remains only one of three countries that have won more medals in the Winter Olympic Games than in the Summer Olympic Games.
The 2022 Winter Olympics will conclude with a total medal winner being on top of the leaderboard after the competition is completed on Feb. 20.
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