The US set a nationwide report with 12 gold medals on this month’s Milan Cortina Olympics, two greater than the prior Winter Olympics report set throughout the 2002 Salt Lake Metropolis Video games.
The U.S. completed in second place in each gold medals (12) and whole medals (33), trailing solely Norway (18 golds, 41 whole medals). It’s the primary time the U.S. has completed in sole possession in each gold and whole medals for the reason that 1952 Oslo Olympics.
The US completed one off its report for many whole medals gained in a Winter Olympics (34, set in 2002).
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The historic Video games was achieved via a variety of American droughts coming to an finish.
The U.S. males’s hockey crew gained gold for the primary time since 1980, and the U.S. girls’s hockey crew gained gold for simply the second time since 1998.
Jordan Stolz, the 21-year-old velocity skating phenom, gained gold within the 500 and 1,000-meter occasions in his Olympic debut. He’s simply the second man to win the five hundred and 1,000 in the identical Olympics, becoming a member of fellow American Eric Heiden.
Alysa Liu turned the primary American girl to medal in girls’s determine skating since 2006 ― and the primary gold medalist since Sarah Hughes in 2002. The U.S. additionally narrowly gained gold within the crew determine skating occasion for the second straight Video games.
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Legendary U.S. bobsledder Elana Meyers-Taylor turned the oldest Winter Olympian to win a person gold at 41 when she gained her long-awaited first gold medal in girls’s monobob after beforehand profitable 5 silver or bronze Olympic medals. She’s tied with Bonnie Blair with probably the most Winter Olympic medals by a U.S. girl (six).
Host Italy completed third in each gold medals (10) and whole medals (30). Germany (eight golds, 26 whole medals) and Japan (5 golds, 24 whole medals) spherical out the highest 5 of the medal desk.